So Ars Technica had an article on a recent conference hosted by Vice President Biden. The conference brought together content companies and federal law enforcement to discuss “ways to combat piracy in this rapidly changing technological age”. Interestingly enough no one from the community or academics where invited. It seems every time [...]

The AP has been on a rampage lately against those that use their content. It has been thought that their main target is bloggers like myself that quote portions of their articles for comment. However I never thought the target of their rampage would be AP members embedding YouTube clips posted on the [...]

Declan McCullagh over at CNET is reporting that one of two recent picks by President Elect Obama are RIAA attorney’s. I think this is an interesting blow to the Digg heads and RIAA opponents that supported Obama.
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the “free culture” movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, [...]

I was reading today on the Consumerist blog that Monster Cable has dropped it’s lawsuit against Monster Mini Golf. The ridiculous thing here is no one said stop what are we doing until months later and half a million blog posts on the issue. Not good for your image.

I’m surprised that OS X clone maker Psystar wasn’t sued ages ago. I doubt they have much funding to fight this lawsuit. I’m not even sure if they did that they could win. However, I would wager that Apple has far more resources to outlive little ole’ Psystar even if the company [...]