Friday, July 18, 2003

Private company keeps your face for 10 years Why I Will Never, Ever Fly Southeast Airlines. Wired News: Videocams Record Airline Flights. Southeast Airlines said it plans to install digital video cameras throughout the cabins of... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] comment [] 3:53:36 PM

RIAA Ethics Pretty cheap, considering. Andrew Orlowski: Congressman pocketed $18,000 for RIAA 'lobbying trip'. The congressman is James Sensenbrenner, who brokered the compromise that put an end to nearly all news about Internet radio, growth of which has been effectively throttled ever since. [The Doc Searls Weblog] comment [] 2:06:07 PM

More on Public Executions and File sharing Doc Searls finds more data on Conyers-Berman.  John Q Public commented on my post yesterday wondering if this strategy would scale?  Hmm... Speaking of loads. Says here that Reps Conyers and Berman (both Democrats, fwiw) want jail time for folks who share music on their hard drives. There's nothing about the bill (or even much current stuff at all) on Conyer's site. Berman's site points to Tom-watson.co.uk, titled Section-by-Section Analysis of The Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003. They might as well call it the Jail your customer industrial suicide act. Tom-watson's operative Analysis of Sec 301: Clarifies that the uploading of a single copyrighted work to a publicly accessible computer network meets the 10 copy, $2,500 threshold for felonious copyright infringement. From Berman, here are the press release and the floor statement. A .pdf file of the whole bill is here. (Isn't there a law somewhere that says the damn bill should be in html? Oughta be if there isn't.) Go read it. Scary shit. Bonus link from Mitch Ratcliffe: Prison for fileswappers -- Dumbest idea ever. [The Doc Searls Weblog] comment [] 10:25:46 AM