Archive for the 'Digital Rights, Wrongs' Category



Does this send a chill down your spine, too? [via Epeus’ Epigone]

“Warning: Trademark and/or Copyright Infringement” More related Perry Hoberman art (”OK/Cancel” series)

Recently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Verizon must give the RIAA the name of a customer suspected — there is no evidence — of downloading “infringing” files. In an L.A. Times editorial, Janis Ian comments on the RIAA’s actions from the point of view of an average, successful recording […]

The much-reviled “Palladium” — a reference to items, generally passed from one person to another as gifts, that are believed to protect the the lives of those who carry them — is now the generic-sounding and much-reviled “next-generation secure computing base”.

Since Microsoft is apparently going the security-through-obscurity route even with the name, I hereby give […]