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Mad Generation Loss(parkerhiggins.net)
10 points by thisisparker 11y ago|7 comments
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Twitter Axes Accountability Projects, Sparing Politicians Embarrassment(eff.org)
1 points by thisisparker 11y ago|0 comments
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Despite NY Times report, media use of video of police shooting likely fair use(forbes.com)
1 points by thisisparker 11y ago|0 comments
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by thisisparker 11y ago
If there are words in the original post that give the impression that we're providing an exhaustive summary, let me know and I'll see how we can clarify. One of the arguments ESA made seems to resonate with people. I don't th
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by thisisparker 11y ago
> I almost get the impression that you don't think the ESA has a legitimate interest in preventing piracy. Well, there's legitimate and there's legitimate. We're not discussing here whether they should try to prevent
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by thisisparker 11y ago
Disclosure up top: I work for the EFF on copyright activism, and submitted this article here, but didn't write it. Just wanted to say that, as others have noted, the excerpted words come from a 71 page reply, but I wouldn't say it
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Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal(eff.org)
282 points by thisisparker 11y ago|152 comments
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Beyond UXKit(robb.is)
8 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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White House drone crash fallout shows who really owns your drones(theguardian.com)
5 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Files Lawsuit Challenging MPAA-Funded State Subpoena(eff.org)
7 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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by thisisparker 12y ago
This is correct. I uploaded the images and used names like facebook.png, which sometimes produces false positives on those extensions. I can confirm they're being served from eff.org and are not doing any tracking.
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Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers (2003)(nytimes.com)
1 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Nope. We had checked in advance about the legal airspace and stuff, so we didn't expect too much blowback.
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by thisisparker 12y ago
I was in the airship and shot some of this footage. Nothing formal here, but feel free to ask me anything :)
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An Interview with Karen Sandler, Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy(modelviewculture.com)
1 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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OnionShare and Why It's Still So Hard to Share Files Directly(wired.com)
4 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Ok, I think I see what's going on here. DMCA says: if you want to have a safe harbor, these are the basic things you have to do. You have to name an agent, take notices, takedown promptly, have a repeat infringer policy, etc. If you do
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Sorry, replying in two places on the same thread. I've got no evidence that it was an actual DMCA notice, and the language suggesting it was an automated match seems much more likely to me. That said, I don't think I have any insi
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Could have been, but it isn't :) I call it the "Houston, we have a problem" clip just because that's how everybody knows it. (There's a comment on the original article to that effect, but Medium doesn't really
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Hey there, OP here. These are good questions, though I disagree with the characterization here. Like: I don't think anybody's circumventing the DMCA, so much as tacking on additional measures not required by law. Anybody who&#
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Accepting Amazon’s DRM makes it impossible to challenge its monopoly(parkerhiggins.net)
1 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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The Supreme Court's real technology problem(parkerhiggins.net)
18 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Marketing, Hacking, and Programming(emilydelmont.svbtle.com)
24 points by thisisparker 12y ago|12 comments
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by thisisparker 12y ago
Outside of the comics section, this includes virtually nothing written by women. May be that there's lots of good and important stuff out there Bret is missing.
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The Cost Of Permission Culture: Or Why Netflix Streaming Library Sucks(techdirt.com)
3 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever(eff.org)
3 points by thisisparker 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple v. Samsung: Tech titans return for second patent trial showdown(mercurynews.com)
1 points by thisisparker 13y ago|0 comments
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Temple City Sheriff's Station confirms comments made by Dorian Nakamoto(forbes.com)
3 points by thisisparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by thisisparker 13y ago
Here's the Village Pump proposal (permalink because VP archives relatively quickly): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village...
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by thisisparker 13y ago
We posted it as a proposal in the Village Pump, but it was only after the original proposal failed to hit consensus. I'm actually both an open internet advocate and a regular Wikipedia editor, but I try to be careful (and was perhaps t

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