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Powerset Turns Out To Not Be All That Powerful

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

We never understood the hype around Powerset. It was the latest in an extremely long line of startups that claimed to focus on "natural language search" -- which is one of those holy grails for computer scientists who never stop to ask whether or not there's actually any market demand for it.

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The Real Price Of The iPhone: $599

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

At first it actually appeared as though the only possible way you could buy the phone was with one of those contracts. There are plenty of mobile phones out there that you can buy subsidized under a contract, which cost 3x as much without a contract.

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Face Scanning Vending Machine Fooled By Photos

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

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Would The Entertainment Industry Follow A Three Strikes Rule Itself?

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

Cory Doctorow asks if such companies would accept their own rule with a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy for sending out erroneous copyright notices -- meaning that they lose their own access for sending out three bogus takedown notices.

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Bono Agrees With Manager: ISPs Are To Blame For The Downfall Of Music

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The actual recording industry, however, did not foresee any of this, did not build up the business models -- and, in fact, stuck to the old, increasingly obsolete business model so stubbornly that it actually pissed off many fans. Bono claims that the experiment was "courageous and imaginative."

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Supreme Court Decision On Guns May Cut Promoting Progress Out Of The Constitution

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

Hopefully, the courts would still recognize that this clause is relevant and not meaningless -- but they now have the necessary tools to claim that promoting the progress is meaningless and has no bearing on whether or not a particular intellectual property system is constitutional.

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Repair A Computer In Texas Without A License And Face A Year In Jail

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

It turns out that it's against the law in Texas to repair a computer without a private investigator's license. While it does not appear that anyone's been charged under the law, computer repair technicians used to cleaning spyware and viruses off of computers in Texas are reasonably worried.

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The Songs Coldplay Didn't Write?

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The What Is Fair Use? blog points us to a fascinating story, suggesting that one of the popular songs from the new Coldplay album has a nearly identical melody to a song by another band. Even if the plagiarist is "bigger" than you, the original creator can use that to their advantage as well.

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RIAA Also Tells Judge That Proof Shouldn't Be Necessary To Sue For Infringement

Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 11:34 pm, Over one day old

Following in the footsteps of the MPAA, the RIAA has now filed its response in the Jammie Thomas case, claiming again that actual proof of distribution doesn't make sense: "Requiring proof of actual transfers would cripple efforts to enforce copyright owners' rights online."

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History Locked Up... Thanks To Copyright

Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 9:33 pm, Over one day old

A few readers sent in the story of the Brooklyn Historical Society refusing to let someone putting together a book of photographs of the Canarsie section of Brooklyn use some old, historically relevant, photographs, because of fears over copyright.

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