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In Free Culture, Lessig discusses code, or digital rights management, as being the modern regulater of copyright freedom. I agree completely. However, I think the one point he didn’t address (and maybe for good reason in forming his argument) was a possible negative public reaction to parasitic DRM techniques/code. In the corporate rush to prevent [...]

Awesome, I Sat Through That – (Wired) Beastie Boys take their DIY concert-goers movie to the Sundance Film Festival. Rock on. Coming to a theater near you.

He Fought the Law. They Both Won. – (NYT) A promising young attorney leads a double life as a blogger and inevitably finds a new career path. Maybe us [...]

Ok, I admit it. I’ve known about podcasting for a while and I quietly resisted. But now I am a true believer in the power of podcasting.

Due to multiple commitments I needed to come up with a creative way to finish listening to Episode 3 of the Digital Citizen podcasts. So, I downloaded it to [...]

I discovered www.free-culture.org a student organization founded upon Lessig’s Free Culture book that we are reading. It is interesting to see that other students were so inspired by his book. Also, I would like to mention the Electronic Frontier Foundation in here as it is great for getting filled in on the latest “battles”…

Speaking of [...]

I have moved my blog. I had been hosting it on my own site (www.the315.com) but due to ftp problems, it isn’t possible at this time.

After much troubleshooting, it seems repeatedly encountering a “Broken Pipe” error while attempting to publish is a blogger.com problem, not mine or my host. (Let me know if anyone has [...]

Well, I must admit that I wasn’t expecting the history lesson – but it is very good for me to understand the background and I do appreciate the argument that he is building. I am looking forward to discussing Lessig in general and this section in class tomorrow.

I looked up the word piracy at dictionary.com [...]

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I am sure that it won’t take me very long to get used to this. So, I guess this could be a sort of milestone- at least the milestone at the beginning of this course. (This course being Digital Governance at the University of Pittsburgh.)

Since the rest of this blog will be about [...]