Velvet Howler » technology http://velvethowler.com So much more than you wanted. Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 ★ Greetings From Today’s NYtimes, Part 2 http://velvethowler.com/2009/07/29/greetings-from-todays-nytimes-part-2/ http://velvethowler.com/2009/07/29/greetings-from-todays-nytimes-part-2/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:53:32 +0000 Mark Elliot Cullen http://velvethowler.com/?p=3818 1, 2, 3, 4. ]]>

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]]> http://velvethowler.com/2009/06/28/greetings-from-todays-nytimes/feed/ 0 A Suicide Note From The Music Industry http://velvethowler.com/2008/07/31/a-suicide-note-from-the-music-industry/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:14:24 +0000 Bryan http://www.velvethowler.com/?p=1217 The Guardian:
This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest paragraph in the record industry’s long, self-pitying suicide note, and it’s left me wishing they’d just pull the trigger already and stop beating their chests and telling us all how unfair it all is. Under the new scheme, the rule of law is replaced by a cosy inter-industry deal. Whereas before, anyone who wanted your ISP to spy on your internet connection would have had to show evidence to a judge and get a court order, now any joker who claims to be an aggrieved copyright holder can do so.
(Via 3 Quarks Daily.) ]]> Cory Doctorow writing for The Guardian:

This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest paragraph in the record industry’s long, self-pitying suicide note, and it’s left me wishing they’d just pull the trigger already and stop beating their chests and telling us all how unfair it all is.

Under the new scheme, the rule of law is replaced by a cosy inter-industry deal. Whereas before, anyone who wanted your ISP to spy on your internet connection would have had to show evidence to a judge and get a court order, now any joker who claims to be an aggrieved copyright holder can do so.

(Via 3 Quarks Daily.)

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