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Archive for the 'freedom' Category

I’ll need an additional 200GB every 6 months

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

At the rate I’m currently going. The pace at which I’m buying itunes videos has increased, about 1-2 a day, maybe 10 a week. They’re 500mb each so 5000mb so 5 gigs a week. 25 x 5 gigs = 125gb. So roughly 100~125 GB of videos, x2 for backup. Heh. This is going to get expensive. See my dilemma now. I love the luxury and immediacy of itunes. But it burdens me so. It’s like that monkey trap where monkey trappers create a box with food with an opening large enough for an empty hand, but with a clench fist full of food the monkey is trapped and wont let go. I’m trapped with DRM. :(

If only the monkey knew to let go.

Posted in Share Wonders, drm, freedom | 1 Comment »

Government proposes to ban Social Networking Sites in Schools and Libraries

Friday, May 12th, 2006

House Republicans are proposing a new bill that will block social networking sites from schools and libraries. I recommend reading the entire proposal (in PDF format). First librarians have had to succumb and install filters on the computers within our library walls, and now this. This an egregious assault on the freedom of speech. Give an inch and they will want to bite off your entire arm. Will ‘blog people’ hating ALA elites care about this? Will newly graduated library school students understand the implications? Surprisingly, there is little to be seen on this issue in library news journals.

Here is the killer:

…prohibits access to a commercial social networking website or chat rooms…
COMMERCIAL SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES.�The working term �commercial social net website� means a commercially operated Internet website that�
��(i) allows users to create web pages or profiles that provide information about themselves and are available to other users; and ��(ii) offers a mechanism for communication with other users, such as a forum, chat room, email, or instant messenger.

What will be affected: blogs, sites like digg, friendster, myspace.com, the potential for harm has no bounds.

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