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Meeting with Boston U's DMCA enforcer
"After receiving some copyright violation warnings from various notifying agencies, forwarded to me by Boston University, my school account was shut down. To get it back, I had to have a talk with Jim Stone, self-proclaimed 'DMCA Enforcer.' I think I might have been the first person to ever disagree with him. It was interesting to me to see what he, a cop and a lawyer, thought of various copyright issues. He seems completely oblivious to the importance of the issue in relation to free human society, ...
The Well refuses membership to Mitnick, 12 years...
8 hours ago
Xeni Jardin: Snip: From: The WELL Help Desk Date: Mar 2, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Your registration for membership in The WELL To: mitnick@... We have decided not to offer you membership in The WELL. Your payment will be refunded, and your application is denied. The WELL staff Kevin Poulsen posts Kevin Mitnick's response, and explains why this news is funny, here. ...
Amazing "nail house" in China
Over at the Virtual China blog, my Institute for the Future colleague Lyn Jeffery posts about this "nail house" in Chongqing. From Lyn's post: [ Photos Uncategorized 2007 03 21 Dingzi Hu 1] ("Nail houses") are the residences of urbanites whose neighborhoods have been "moved" 动迁 and who are the last hold-outs--they stick out like nails in an otherwise modernized environment. On March 19 the China Legal Daily published what it claims is the first interview with the woman who owns the house. Her demand? ...
