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Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging
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| An attorney defending against a music-
| piracy lawsuit didnât cross ethical bounds
| by filing motions broadly attacking the
| recording industry and posting them on his
| blog, a magistrate judge has ruled,
| rejecting demands from the RIAA for
| monetary sanctions.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/magistrate-clears-blogger-riaa-of-vexatious-charges/
Microsoft Mono is the same... gagging critics. [links below]
Guilty Pirates, Line Up Over Here
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| The site is âreaching outâ to the
| pragmatists and seekers, as these are the
| ones who can apparently be ârehabilitatedâ
| and with the siteâs help, they can take
| their first step toward legitimacy and
| restful, sleep-filled nights. And the site
| just makes a little money helps by
| âcoax[ing] them toward the light.â Whatâs
| the harm in that, right?
|
| In case you canât tell, I think this is a
| really silly idea. I have trouble
| believing anyone (yes, anyone) would do
| it. The article notes that âinterest from
| the public has not been especially high.â
| Well, that I understand.
|
| If youâre downloading and feel that what
| you are doing is illegal, the first step
| is to stop it. Then, find a way to help
| the artist or creator yourself, not
| through a site that takes 12% of your
| payment for itself. The slice off the top
| makes me wonder if this site is any better
| than the downloaders; it itself benefits
| monetarily from allegedly illegal
| downloads. You could argue that it
| encourages people to download by helping
| them feel âbetterâ after theyâve done it.
| The more âunauthorizedâ downloaders there
| are, the more there are who might pay
| through this site, bringing (perhaps some)
| profit to the site.
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http://madisonian.net/2009/10/08/guilty-pirates-line-up-over-here/
Recent:
Why donât you just shut up?
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| A lot of times, mono critics are told we should just âshut upâ. Everything
| that needs to be said has been said, no one is going to change their mind,
| and there is no point in going on about things.
|
| Let me tell you why I reject that.
|
| [...]
|
| Reason four: It is too important
|
| We arenât talking about arguing over the One True Brace Style here. Team Mono
| wants to be on your desktop. They want more Mono and even Moonlight up in
| GNOME. If they get GNOME based on .NET, then you can bet your sweet object
| code they are coming for KDE.
|
| Reason five: It sets a bad precedent
|
| First was C#/CLI, then .NET, then Moonlight. Each iteration has been less
| Free and more risky to build on. Each one is ever closer to some exclusive
| Novell-Microsoft arrangement.
|
| What of the next Microsoft technology that Team Mono decides needs to be
| cloned? Microsoft can afford to have every component integrate tightly â in
| fact, it is to thier advantage to do so. But we who rely on standards and \
| promises to protect us can not be so cavalier.
|
| Reason six: Thatâs what Novell wants
|
| Listen, Novell management is not a bunch of idiots. There can be no question
| that they knew entering into a relationship with Microsoft would be taken as
| a betrayal of the community. There is no doubt in my military mind they sat
| down and tried to judge the cost as best they could, and you know what they
| came up with...
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/17/why-dont-you-just-shut-up/
Ubuntu Free Speech Zones
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| Time to draw attention to the âFree Speech Zoneâ on the Ubuntu Forums.
|
| The target
|
| For perfectly understandable reasons, Team Mono is really targeting Ubuntu to
| get ever more mono applications in by default. Banshee is virtually a given
| at this point, and GNOME-Do is a likely follow up. There is a blizzard of
| pro-mono misinformation on the Ubuntu Forums â which it breaks my heart to
| say, doesnât exactly have quite same level of intellectual rigor as the
| Dialogues of Plato.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/18/ubuntu-free-speech-zones/
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