…let’s contemplate how severely Hasbro doesn’t get it. The company actually thinks it owns the game, when consumers actually own the game, no matter how many legal documents Hasbro can throw at the situation.

Un-fucking-believable.

Update: The creators of Scrabulous have launched a new Facebook application, Wordscraper.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/yahoo-shutterin.html

So easy for them to have handled this right. Not sure why they couldn’t just transfer a user’s licenses over to the Rhapsody account they are getting. I love Rhapsody. Seriously.

Legislation protects Internet service providers from liability for copyright violations by their subscribers, requiring them only to pass on notices of violations.

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist complains “All these rights force consumers to read the fine print — you can shift a song or a television show, but once it’s locked down, your rights disappear and your potential liability skyrockets.”

Awwww…..they’d have to readi the fine print. Hey, read the f’in fine print and keep your ass out of jail.

Legislation doesn’t specify how the government would monitor whether people had built up personal libraries of recordings. Liberal Party member Dan McTeague criticized the bill as being incomplete. “How are you going to enforce this when existing jurisprudence doesn’t allow you to walk into someone’s home?” he pointed out.

Looks like business as usual for digital rights legislation. They just don’t get it.

Prince has been notorious for protecting his copyrights, but this is one video that couldn’t be a clearer example of when to leave well enough alone.

Whats your call?

The company does not host files on its site, but rather provides a player that can be embedded on social networking sites.

In the past week, Mediapost’s Wendy Davis has written about Pirate Bay’s new blogging platform as well as ISPs and their efforts to throttle bandwidth.

Thanks for putting some of these issues in front of a new audience. Too often, the coverage we see is biased and prejudiced against anyone who uses a lot of bandwidth – even for legal P2P applications, like Joost or Vuze.

Beyond computer-to-computer media-sharing, doubleTwist lets users synchronize media sitting on their computers to mobile devices they or their friends own, simply by “dragging and dropping” media files into a desktop folder that then drops copies of the media files onto the mobile devices over the Web.

This is similar functionality provided by Red Chair Software’s Anapod, which the Hobo’s Mom uses for dragging and dropping to her iPod. It also seems to mimic the functionality of Tunebite, which plays back songs in fast forward and re-records them as unprotected files.

While there appears to be little hope for DRM when users are determined to get around it, I still maintain that there is very little that people can’t do under “Fair Use” with DRM protected files.

AnyDVD is used for removing DRM and CSS copyright protections. CloneDVD is used for the actual copying of the disc, compressing video to fit one disc, and removing menus, alternate languages and other elements of a DVD that a user may not want to keep in an archived copy of a movie.