Year: 2005

Via SlashDot, Mark Cuban ( Master of the Long Tail via Boing Boing and Xeni) holds forth in his blog Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster It wont be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get Continue reading Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster→

Via Phil Windley’s Technometria we have the newest kool idea: Neighbornode, using Linksys WRT54G and the free Neighbornode firmware file in order to build: group message boards on wireless nodes, placed in residential areas and open to the public. These Continue reading Neighbornode→

Via Boing Boing Hank’s TaubmanSucks site exhaustively details the legal wranglings that ensued when he registered a domain with the same name as a mall that was under construction near him, for the purpose of posting fannish reviews of the Continue reading HOWTO: defend yourself against domain trademark shakedowns→

All tricks on da WWWeb has constructed a DataRequester (Wrapper for XMLHTTPRequest) which is A JavaScript wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object that enables the trivial implementation of dynamic interfaces without the painful necessity for a complete page-refresh to talk to Continue reading JavaScript Wrapper for XMLHTTPRequest→

Economist.com | Illegal file-sharers under attack The entertainment industry is taking its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems. Love this: The music business Continue reading Economist.com on the peer-to-peer showdOwn→

via Cory @ Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA proposal: not great, could be LOTS worse. The Canadian government has introduced its draft legislation for a “Canadian DMCA” — a suite of laws to bring Canadian copyright into harmony with the bad Continue reading Canada’s DMCA proposal: not great, could be LOTS worse→