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  • When will the NFL Network standoff end?

    Like so many others , I was furious when I couldn't watch the Packers-Cowboys games a few weeks back. The NFL Network is only carried on satellite which is simply not an option for many of us in urban areas like NYC. For those who haven't been paying attention, there's been a long-running...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-27-2007

  • Arguing Intelligently about Copyright

    Dare has a great rant on copyright . A key purpose of giving authors and other content creators exclusive rights to their intellectual property is to enable them to be rewarded financially from their works for some time before allowing these creations to become "owned" by society. This is supposed to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-01-2007

  • Taxing Virtual Economies?

    A congressional committee is exploring the idea of taxing in-game virtual economies . This is not a tax on the sale of video games themselves ( especially violent ones ), nor is it a tax on the sale of virtual assets in a real market like eBay. As Mike explains: Note that the politicians aren't talking...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-18-2006

  • The Broadcast Flag and TiVO

    The EFF already defeated the Broadcast Flag once, but it's one of those things that Hollywood is not going to let go of. I noticed on Dave's site that DRM support was added to TiVO last year . This DRM allows content owners to specify how and whether TiVO users can record a flagged show: they either...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-24-2006

  • Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

    Scoble passes along that James Governor, an analyst for RedMonk, received a C&D from Gartner for a link . Wow. I obviously haven't seen the letter, but I'm trying to imagine what possible legal recourse they have to linking to a publicly visible URL. Obviously there's no copyright infringement and...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-11-2006

  • The problem with regulating what you don't understand

    This interview would be funnier if Senator Stevens wasn't involved in crafting Internet regulation. Stevens does an amazing job (jaw-dropping, really) of explaining how the Internet works and why network neutrality is a bad thing. Choice quotes: But this service isn't going to go through the interent...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-05-2006

  • The Web 2.0 Trademark Debacle

    There has been a bit of controversy over O'Reilly's "Web 2.0" service mark cease-and-desist letter and their subsequent "we had to" response . I'd say Mike Arrington correctly predicted the lynching , though some are defending O'Reilly . ( Scoble is just upset he's no longer the King of Evil ). Fortunately...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-26-2006

  • Commercial Skipping

    There's been a bit of discussion on two patent applications filed by Philips on what the author of this NYT article refers to as "pay to surf" technology. Part of me hopes that they patented this simply to prevent others from using the invention, but somehow I don't think that's the case. ( Aside: Why...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-10-2006

  • Warner Bros to start selling movies on BitTorrent

    In another step towards legitimacy , Warner Bros announced that it will sell movies and television shows through BitTorrent in the US. ( The service already launched in Europe in March ). No mention of what format is being used, but the article mentions "new digital rights management (DRM) software from...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-09-2006

  • MPAA, P2P and digital downloads

    The MPAA has launched a massive attack on P2P sites, but one of the sites is fighting back . TorrentSpy is a search engine for torrent files - it doesn't host the torrent files or the underlying protected material. In their response, they said that the MPAA might have just as well sued Google . Fred...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-09-2006
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