Well, the Dow Jones thingy has fallen again, so everyone is rehashing their stories about the failed promise of the Internet. I forget how much of a bubble so much of this chunk of society is within. People still think dotcom = internet. The Internet never promised you insta-magicash. That was the analysts. I don’t [...]
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Microsoft’s Scripting Strategy – – – – – – – -
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The YESMEN have done it again: <nettime> FW: WTO applauded for insulting Gandhi ‘Hank Hardy Unruh’s lecture in Tampere was an effort to clarify how dangerous it is to equate human freedom with a free market.’ For instance, ‘Lincoln, by outlawing slavery, had criminally interfered with the trade freedom of the South, as well as [...]
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Animal rights Web sites shut down under the DMCA‘Earlier this month, the Bank of New York notified EnviroLink that it believed that the site violated its copyrights. EnviroLink took down the site. “Under the DMCA, a corporation contacts an ISP to let them know that a site that they host is violating their copyright,” explains [...]
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A spiritual take on intellectual property: ‘It would be better to say that no one owns anything, not even a physical body much less a mind or a soul.’ Not quite sure what is going on here, but I’ve found I tend to like what’s in these sites with default html and a blue-outlined image [...]
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Roger Clarke’s ‘Paradise Gained, Paradise Re-lost’ How the Internet is being Changed from a Means of Liberation to a Tool of Authoritarianism – – – – – – – -
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Second iteration conference on generative systems in the electronic arts. December 5-7 2001, Melbourne, Australia ‘Second Iteration : emergence is the event for anyone with an interest in the relationship between generative processes, creativity and artistic practice. The key theme will be emergence: the property of simple, interacting processes to acquire characteristics and form beyond [...]
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SOFTWARE LIBRE!!!! Governments push open-source software, ‘A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.’ Of course, Microsoft is trying to crush it. – via nettime – – – – – – – -
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Dmitri has been indicted, so this really is going to trial, and protests have embraced the importance of not only freeing Dmitri from these charges, but reforming DMCA as well. The case spurred by the professor who was initially prevented from speaking about his findings in the RIAA crack competition fights to reform DMCA as [...]
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SOFTWARE LIBRE!!!! Governments push open-source software, ‘A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.’ Of course, Microsoft is trying to crush it. – via nettime – – – – – – – -