Links for 2006-11-03
- The BBC reports on a think tank that reports the obvious - that you should legally be allowed to copy your CDs for personal use It's absolutely fascinating to me that copyright law in the UK is so massively behind the day to day use of technology...
- According to the MPAA, New York is the city in the world most responsible for in-screen recordings of movies The most interesting thing about this is that it isn't interesting in the slightest. I can't imagine for a moment why the MPAA should be interested in where piracy occurs given that they can't possibly hope to shut down all recordings of movies...
- Torrentfreak is my new favourite future of media distribution weblog Obviously BitTorrent is mostly used for piracy, but observing what's going on around BitTorrent seems like a no-brainer way to learn what early-adopters are actually interested in getting from their media consumption...
- 500,000 people are downloading Lost each week Torrentfreak again - here I think missing the point a bit when they say that 5% of its audience is via Torrents. For a start, I suspect that it's mostly downloaded by non-Americans...
- Techcrunch bigs up CastTV as the future of media search I really don't know if I believe that search of this kind is really the future of head-content distribution. The same environment for short-form and long-form media? Head and tail? For pay and free? They're more blurred than they used to be, but they're not the same...
- Nine months of gestation in twenty seconds Another in my long series of favourite gawker time-lapse created YouTube videos - this time nine months of pregnancy in twenty seconds.
Comments
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I agree with this ruling people should be allowed to copy music and such back and forth without being told that it is illegal.
→ Posted by: samir at November 3, 2006 3:14 PM
I think it's interesting what you're doing with this blog through your links these days. It's not really about the links themselves anymore but your reaction to them which is the source of many a giggles for me. Very cool.
→ Posted by: Alex at November 3, 2006 4:22 PM
Hmm... many movies are released in NY and LA before they make it to the rest of the country (I don't know about the rest of the world...) so that's hardly surprising. Have you seen "This Movie Is Not Yet Rated," a documentary about the MPAA? I recommend it.
→ Posted by: Bart at November 3, 2006 6:02 PM