Sunday, May 25th, 2008
A while back, I posted the first part of the nasty tale about how copyright came to be - the story about how Queen Mary I ruthlessly hunted down protestants and introduced copyright as a repressive censorship mechanism, where a printers' guild was granted a monopoly, and in exchange for ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm reading on Slashdot that Metallica has decided to make as much money as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. They've decided to bypass the record companies and market directly to their file sharing fans.
But nobody has forgotten that Metallica was the first major band to side with the record industry's ...
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