The US Copyright Office has made some "adjustments" to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that heinous piece of ill-conceived legislature that favors increasing the bottom-line of the big corporate interests that had too much of a hand in helping write the law, against the the end users of various content. The Library of Congress, which ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of action in the various gay blogs regarding the brief filed by the Department of Justice against the repeal of DOMA. Here is the Obama DOJ filing a brief packed with text comparing homosexuality with incest and pederasty, among other disproven nastiness. Yes, I was pissed, this being more in line with Bush-era right-wing spew or ( Read more... )

Are you being annoyed by someone on the internet? By someone not using their real name to identify themselves? Take solace in the knowledge that the person is now committing a federal crime, thanks to actions of Sen. Arlen Specter (R. PA) and others, and signed into law this past Thursday. I am surprised this has not been more widely reported on. ( Read more... )