Posts Tagged ‘Media’

Hasbro, Scrabulous, and Fair Use

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Once again, Mediapost’s Cathy Taylor misses the point. Shame to see a social media columnist, who works for a media company with its own intellectual property, so blatantly misunderstand the state of IP, fair use, copyright law and jump to ridiculous conclusions like:

…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.

Hasbro, Scrabulous, and Fair Use

Great RIAA Post from Dan Tynan

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

http://www.dantynan.com/2008/07/21/the-riaa-vs-the-mothers-of-prevention/ includes great mini-anecdotes and the full resolution to the “baby dancing to Prince song” fiasco.

Great RIAA Post from Dan Tynan

MediaPost Paying Attention

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Nice to see some traditional, mainstream media outlets covering the file sharing and bittorrent communities.

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.

MediaPost Paying Attention

The Hobo Argues for DRM on Mediapost

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Check out The Hobo arguing FOR DRM on Mediapost.

The Hobo Argues for DRM on Mediapost