vetti-October 22nd 2007 at says:
i’m all for creative dark rooms – let’s all get on with it, eh?@Vetti :a) your blog is FULL of actual content. props to you!b) i do see the irony in quoting from…
..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007).. (M1K3¥’s Blog)
Read more "..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007).. (M1K3¥’s Blog)"Read moreBut copyright’s problem is that most of the copyists cheerfully admit that they copy. The majority of American Internet users engage in infringing file-sharing. If file-sharing were stamped out tomorrow, they’d swap the same files — and more — by trading hard drives, or thumb drives, or memory cards (and more data would change hands, albeit more slowly).
Copyists either know that they infringe but don’t care, or they believe that the law can’t possible criminalize what they’re doing and assume that it punishes more egregious forms of copying, such as selling pirate DVDs in the street. In fact, copyright law penalizes selling DVDs at a much lower level than sharing the same movies over the Internet for free, and the risk of buying one of these DVDs is much lower (thanks to the high costs of enforcement against people making transactions in the real world) than the risk of downloading them online.
Indeed, copyists are busily building an elaborate ethos of what can and can’t be shared, and with whom, and under what circumstances. They join private sharing circles, argue norms among themselves, and in word and deed create a plethora of “para-copyrights” that reflect a cultural understanding of what they’re meant to be doing.
Read moreIt shows people are increasingly writing in a register somewhere in between spoken and written English.
Les N̩gresses Vertes РZobi La Mouche (The Fly) (via courageousjohnny)
gizo-September 20th 2007 at says:
RSS Still looks funky to me. No carriage returns, no formatting to identify titles… No bullets… Maybe it’s just me, but I like a little formatting, stops me…
links for 2007-09-21 (M1K3¥’s Blog)
Read more "links for 2007-09-21 (M1K3¥’s Blog)"gizo-September 18th 2007 at says:
Your RSS is ugly. Is that intentional, or GoogleReader, or….?foine..since ur the 2nd person to say that today i’ll investigate..however – it’s using deli.icio.us’s…
links for 2007-09-19 (M1K3¥’s Blog)
Read more "links for 2007-09-19 (M1K3¥’s Blog)"Lizbt-August 30th 2007 at says:
Nic Cage tries to pick up Jessica Biel… Isn’t he old enough to be her grandfather? Ew…a) yes. and it’s far from the worst part of the plotisn’t it funny how times…
on movies eating video games… (M1K3¥’s Blog)
Read more "on movies eating video games… (M1K3¥’s Blog)"vetti-August 26th 2007 at says:
hey “Hillis”, loads of steampunky goodness on the interwebs today – pity about the cruggs though. whathafug is going on there?don’t you see the connection here? it’s…
links for 2007-08-27 (M1K3¥’s Blog)
Read more "links for 2007-08-27 (M1K3¥’s Blog)"vetti-June 2nd 2007 at says:
just back from seeing pirates @ the westgarth…literally, with headscarves, faux swords and all. and that was the audience. what’s yer verdict on the film?so the plug…
Read more "Big Love.. (M1K3¥’s Blog)"Rachel-June 14th 2007 at says:
I take issue with complaints about powdered custard and repeats of The Good Life.now you’re making me look up what this ‘The Good Life’ is…and.. have no idea. So you…
..WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE?.. (M1K3¥’s Blog)
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 