Interesting Links for 03-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• Republican Official Says NM Governor Disrespected Custer by Meeting American Indians
  (tags: republicans racism usa )
• The man behind some of the most iconic movie posters of all time.
  (tags: video art movies )
• Police lock up innocent man for 8 months over partial DNA match. System failing investigations.
  (tags: forensics dna police )
• HP'delays

Comments

[supergee]

Apple is making war on the family.

[reverancepavane]

I remember a nice little incident at a conference on policing and forensics where police investigating a staged burglary discovered irrefutable evidence that it was the NSW police commisioner who was guilty of the crime, after having cut himself on the smashed glass door and left behind DNA evidence irrefutably "proving" his guilt

[reverancepavane]

Oh, and the problem with ownership and inheritance of electronic media goes well beyond that of the restrictive licensing of Apple, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, which is covered by their licence (if you don't like the terms of sale don't use their service - I don't

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. Interesting times, and the law doesn't cover this, and in some ways _can't_.

And now I've gone and written a whole LJ entry based on my frustration bubbling over. I hold you responsible :->

[reverancepavane]

I willingly accept the responsibility, but not the sense of outrage that accompanies it.

I think my favourite is the US company that uses the Cloudview decision that an isolated remote copy is OK for a single person to access, provided it is a discrete and unique copy that is not shared to anyone else, to build massive arrays of TV antennas on a rack mount, each dedicated to an individual subscriber, so that they can legally stream TV over the internet.

When you start engineering around laws, it means the laws have failed.

Still, the Old Guard have a lot of money and influence and won't go down without trying to sink the ship first. The fact that they probably will end up being their own worst enemies has escaped them, and now they have too much invested to change.

[skreidle]

See also: Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane | Ars Technica -- [Deploying 10,000 tiny antennas makes no technical sense-but the law demands it.]

[momentsmusicaux]

I really hope Neil Gaiman doesn't. I didn't think his episode at all -- seemed rather too much like fanfic to me.