Author Archives: David Greene

The Pirate Bay goes legit. The pirates don’t.

We all know by now that The Pirate Bay was adjudged an infringing service by a Swedish court in April. An appeal was immediately raised based mainly on the judge in the case being biased, but was thrown out a … Continue reading

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I’d rather be a pirate than join the Navy

The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) defines “pirated copyright goods” as “any goods which are copies made without the consent of the right holder or person duly authorized by the right holder in the country of … Continue reading

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Music was a product, now it is a service…

A few years ago, a DIY artist by the name of MC Lars released an album titled The Graduate. Making the album with ProTools and his MacBook, the title track is ‘Download This Song,’ a throwback to Abby Hoffman’s ‘Steal … Continue reading

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Lucky There’s a Family Guy

On March 15 of last year, Family Guy was sued by Carol Burnett for the  use of Carol’s cartoon likeness as a janitor in an adult book store. Not stopping at the link between Carol and an adult book store, … Continue reading

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Those who use the DMCA need to get REAL

Recent uses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prove that this law is indeed absurd. Before the days of the DMCA, DRM, access control, circumvention control, and before DVDs became ubiquitous, end users of media had the ability to make … Continue reading

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