Tech at Night: Copyright flares up. Spectrum still matters too, though.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 20th at 01:30 AM  | 

So you may have heard that the Republican Study Committee pulled the copyright piece I spoke highly of over the weekend. I don’t have anything to say about this just yet. I’m going to reexamine the piece, to see if it had issues I didn’t notice in my quick read over the weekend. I’m also going to try to figure out just what’s happened. Then I’ll have more to say.

Copyright is ramping up, though. Darrell Issa is getting frisky against DMCA, and is going to push legislation. I don’t know if I support such a bill. The DMCA has issues, but for the most part it was a solid compromise that has served us well. It must not be changed lightly.

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Jim Messina probably shouldn’t talk about first day Presidential promises.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 24th at 07:30 PM  | 

Head Obama for America flack Jim Messina’s got yet another reeking-of-desperation fundraising email out complaining that – Prepared to be terrified, folks! – the GOP candidates are all promising to take a stake through the heart of Obamacare and kill it dead, dead, dead on their first day in office.  This is, of course, a fringe position – if one can define ‘fringe’ as ‘supported | Read More »