Blogger was off and on yesterday (mostly off), so I couldn’t publish most of the things I wanted to. But now a day later there’s more in my queue, so I’m just going to put quick links to yesterday’s items w/o my usual enrapturing commentary.
On intellectual property: Kuro5hin has an article explaining the “Economics of Intellectual Property,” and Business Week features an interview with Princeton Prof. Edward W. Felten, the master cryptographer who cracked the RIAA’s copy protection scheme, and who asserts that technology is not the answer for protecting intellectual property. Law professor Lawrence Lessig–author of the currently popular book The Future of Ideas–asks “Who’s Holding Back Broadband” in a op-ed to the Washington Post, and focuses on the pervasiveness of copyright.
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