● 01.17.12
●● Links – More Sopa, TV Whitespaces under attack.
Posted in Site News at 7:58 pm by Guest Editorial Team
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Woz praises Android function, cries over iPhone decay.“I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer,” he said. “Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listings….”CensorshipRupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama [and Google]“So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery” … continued with several tweets, attacking Google as the “Piracy leader” for streaming movies free. In later tweets he called Google a “great company.”It is interesting that a man who so tightly controls the opinion expressed by one of the largest media empires would go to Twitter to tell us what he really thinks. MIT Media Lab: The Media Lab is against SOPA and PIPAYou can read more about the issue on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog and my blog where we have cross-posted a longer post on the topic.I dissagree that, “the goal to try to minimize the dissemination of copyright materials online is laudable.” The dissemination of knowledge is good and this is ultimately why authors publish. Fabian Scherschel of Linux Outlaws has a video message: A Message About SOPAWhat is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online Piracy Act explainedHouse Kills SOPAIn a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill.SOPA Shelved, Wikipedia Joins Blackout AnywaySadly, SOPA’s counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) will still be pushed forward, meaning we must remain vigilant. Despite all of this, Wikipedia has announced it will join the blackout coming Wednesday. … It was pretty clear for anyone with even a modicum of political sense that SOPA had simply accumulated too much of a negative connotation to be pushed through without repercussions.The pressure is working, keep it up. Techrights reports elsewhere that Smith promisses to continue work on SOPAInternet/Net NeutralityGoogle works for unlicensed spectrum while others try to undo open access requirements and get another greedy, corrupt spectrum auction from TV white spaces at CES.[Google's Senior Policy Counsel Rick Whitt] said that at least a portion of TV broadcasters’ spectrum should be devoted to unlicensed use, “We want a couple of public beaches.The statements of Neil Fried, senior telecommunications counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, are particularly repulsive because FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was there to discuss quickly adding broadband to Lifeline, a program to assure telecommunications for the poor. Open Spectrum can do that. Auctions will give us expensive access owned by incumbents known for spying on those who can afford their rates. Both the FCC and Congress are portrayed as wanting auctions but the FCC was lobbying for unlicensed spectrum. Even tech laggard Microsoft says they want unlicensed TV White spaces and has systems ready to use.Copyrights22 Months in Jail for Streaming VideoTrademarksOccupy Wall Street (TM)[2]
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