Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions- Say it ain’t so!

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Information has been appearing all over the ‘net about the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated between roughly 40 nations in Seoul, South Korea. Rumblings about ACTA have been going on for a while now, but it seems what is actually in the treaty is beginning to come to light. What is allegedly being discussed is terrifying – a global DMCA-like regime that makes ISP’s the watchdog for copyrighted content (lions), three strikes disconnect policy (tigers), the end or major changes to safe harbor provisions (bears), and other major changes that could dramatically change the internet forever (Oh my!).

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"Legal" Free Music

2 November 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

Everyone is always looking for free ways to get their music and still more are looking for ways to just listen to music but not download due to disc space, etc. Although this post is not about something brand new, it is a concept that has been getting noticably easier to do.
The first of these [...]

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