Blog Reading Catchup - Part 3 of many
I’m getting closer to that magical number of 0 unread blog posts. I’ve brought the number down from 1000+ to 233 (but will probably jump back to 500 tomorrow). Here are some more highlights:
- Apparently, one-third of us copy DVDs. While this may be part of the reason for declining DVD sales, I suspect services like Netflix, Zip.ca and iTunes are part of it too.
- Counterfeit Chic on the complications of knitted characters
- Senate Considers Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008
- John Degen on “free” vs “free”
- John Degen points to Grace Wescott’s excellent essay Friction over Fan Fiction. Particularly of note is her summary of fan fiction’s possible impact on the value of authors licensing subsidiary rights. (disclosure: I know both John and Grace offline)
There’s also a ton of stuff on ArsTechnica, and just doesn’t make sense for me to link to all of it here. If you’re curious about which I liked, check out my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia. I didn’t tag them with Ars, so it’s everything bookmarked today from “Bell’s P2P traffic issues “easily and inexpensively solved”" to “DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it”. I found another possible Ma.gnolia plugin for Wordpress and will be testing it soonish so that I don’t have to duplicate bookmarking and linking efforts.
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