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John Robb: "CNet. Western Digital's new hard-drive arrives at 200 Gbs. This is great:
>>>Drive makers will surely need the new interface, as developments push areal densities to 100GB per platter. Such density could allow desktop drives to reach 400GB of storage by the end of next year.<<<
It's too bad that overly generous copyright laws prevent this capacity from being utilized. If copyright was at the Lessig threshold of 5 years, all manner of scenarios are possible. A personal copy of the Library of Congress. Archives of major newspapers, magazines, etc. Societal memory at your fingertips. Amazing. What value is that to our civilization?
To not fill this capacity and unleash the creativity it could spawn would be tantamount to Caeser's burning of the great Library of Alexandria. In his quest for power and control, he accidently destroyed one of the founts of knowledge in the ancient world. Aren't we experiencing a similar power grab by corporate copyright holders for the same motives?" [John Robb's Radio Weblog] [Jenny Levine: Tech Goddess]
9:31:04 AM 
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Glenn Reynolds comments on Delaware Senator Joe Biden's new entertainment-industry-friendly bill. "These legislative initiatives aren't just about copyright. They're about building a regime that's hostile to content that comes from anyone other than Big Media suppliers." [Scripting News]
7:35:14 AM
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If At First You Don't Succeed..... Hollings: Broadcast flag now, by FCC mandate
" 'EFF was advised that Sen. Ernest Hollings has written a letter to the FCC advocating immediate implementation of a broadcast flag mandate -- even without additional legislation. Hollings apparently claimed that the FCC already has, under existing statutes, the authority necessary to require that all manufacturers comply with BPDG rules.'
I question the appropriateness and perhaps even legality (in an abstract theoretical sense) of a member of the legislative branch of the government urging a part of the executive branch to grab power it does not seem to have, because the legislative branch has not granted it. The legislator does not work by fiat, it's his job to legislate. Should he fail in that endeavor, as Hollings has up to this point, he should not go behind the scenes and try to get the executive branch to do his bidding anyhow.
Congress should officially reprimand Hollings for this. (Not that I expect it...)" [iRights] [Jenny Levine: Tech Goddess]
7:25:51 AM
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