Disgusting ....

How to Become a Patent Millionaire [Slashdot]
9:37:33 PM     comment []

File this under "Chilling Effects" ....

ReplayTV puts ad skipping on pause. The company's new digital video recording boxes won't include some of the tools that have angered copyright holders. [CNET News.com]
2:01:08 PM     comment []

For how can a man die better,
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.
     -- Thomas Babbington Macaulay

[from The Wondering Minstrels - it's #489]
11:10:26 AM     comment []

Here's an interesting bit of history:
Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry [Secular Blasphemy]
9:10:35 AM     comment []