BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Song sites face legal crackdown

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Song sites face legal crackdown It was only a matter of time before the public education of copyright law required that people start being thrown in jail. I guess you have to break a few eggs... What is even more interesting is that this article is about lyric and guitar tabulature posting. The actual market value of these printed materials is evidentally irrelevant when compared to the audacity of fans putting in the work of listening to someone's music and putting in the effort to transcribe the lyrics or guitar chords. One might think that there was a rule that brute-force (not carbon) copying like this was a fair use; but they'd be wrong.

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E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you | Perspectives | CNET News.com

E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Declan is concerned about the privacy implications of tracking cars on the road. This is a valid concern, but a little-researched knee-jerk reaction of mine is that efforts such as this may compromise one of our greatest assets: the open network of roadways.

When you think of it, roads are a lot like the Internet. Once you pay for a car and gas (or public transporation) you have subsequent free access to the entire network. This is a good analogy to the Internet, where once you have a computer and pay for net access, you have unbiased access to the network. Sure, there are pay sites, toll roads, speed traps, and carnivores along the way; but the point is that the majority of the network is free (as in beer), and that we all (individuals and corporations alike) benefit from the network.
I think it deserves to stay that way.

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Another opinion in favor of "toll roads."