Wednesday, November 20, 2002

More DMCA Abuses: Retailers are now using the DMCA to attack websites that publish information about sales schedules etc. 4:17:12 PM

It's time to complain!  Copyright law gets a second look. On Tuesday, the U.S. Copyright Office began accepting comments from the public on the law's "anticircumvention" section, which limits people's ability to bypass copy-protection mechanisms. Comments are due by Dec. 18. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:49:00 PM

Amateur Rocketry Photos: Here's a cool site where rocketry enthusiasts post video and still photos for all to see.  Cool! 3:28:00 PM

Most American Teens Can't Find Iraq on a Map: As if you ever needed proof that the education system was a failure, it turns out (no surprise here!) that 87% of American teenagers can't even find Iraq on a map, let alone have anything intelligent to say about it...or presumably anything else.  The same National Geographic study found that 83% couldn't find Afghanistan, 76% couldn't find Saudi Arabia, 70% couldn't find New Jersey, 49% couldn't find New York, and 11% couldn't find the United States. 3:25:02 PM

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