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July 17, 2009

The strongest force in the universe continues to be irony

David Pogue reports that Amazon has deleted some books from people’s Kindles, even though people had paid for them. It seems that the publisher decided it didn’t want them offered after all. [NEXT DAY: More exactly, the publisher that owns the copyright objected to another publisher selling the book.] So, Amazon deleted the books and credited people for their purchase.

The books were George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. OMG.

[Tags: amazon digital_rights copyleft copyright app_store ]

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: amazon • app_store • copyleft • copyright • culture • digital rights • digital_rights Date: July 17th, 2009 dw

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June 7, 2008

DRM Zuneral: The video

Alex Leavitt recorded the DRM zuneral on May 25, at which our old friend, Digital R. Management, the progeny of CD Keys and Read Only Floppies, was given a burial at sea.

[Tags: drm digital_rights roflcon zuneral ]

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: digital culture • digital rights • digital_rights • drm • roflcon • zuneral Date: June 7th, 2008 dw

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March 18, 2008

Kentucky considers banning anonymous speech

According to this excellent blog, Kentucky is considering a bill banning anonymous online speech. (The blog is the class blog for “The Web Difference” course I’m co-teaching, with John Palfrey, at Harvard Law.)

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And speaking of courses, I find it heartwarming that today I’m able to open our session on whether the Web has changed marketing by using some slides on “what is marketing” from John Hauser’s Spring 2005 course on marketing at MIT, which is available as open courseware. Gotta love the open courseware.

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: anonymity • berkman • digital rights • digital_rights • education • marketing • mit • net neutrality • open_courseware Date: March 18th, 2008 dw

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