Sure, we live in the Internet age, where we can look up actors to see where we’ve seen them before on IMDB, but we can look up almost anything on Wikipedia, or just do a full search with Google and get back hundreds of thousands of results.
We can talk to people around the world instantly either with text chat, through our Facebook pages, or with free VOIP like Skype. I can do any of this from anywhere in or near my house thanks to a cheap wireless router and a laptop computer. With an iPhone I could do it (for more of a cost) from anywhere.
Living in this age, we tend to forget just how amazing all that is.
But on top of all that, in three months we may have a 100% cure for cancer.
You guys can go back and live in the medieval ages when you lived to 35 if you were lucky, were covered in shit and ate stale brown bread every day.
I’m going to live in the future, thanks, because it’s here now.
Bill Mahr is hit and miss for me. Sometimes he really does seem like the left’s version of Bill O’Reilly (except, granted, funnier) like when he tells people on his show to “shut up”.
Other times he’s bang on (and still funny) like here. The movie looks like great fun, though I’m not sure anyone who needs to see it will bother. Maybe this trailer will be enough? Probably not.
From BoingBoing.net:
Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced his answer to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act today as planned, and it’s even worse than the US DMCA. The Canadian DMCA allows every single exception to copyright to be eliminated by adding DRM: whatever the law allows you to do, a corporation can take away, just by using DRM to prevent you from doing it. Breaking DRM is illegal, unless you fit into a tiny, narrow, useless exception for security research.
Yes, that’s right — the new copyright law being introduced does have provisions for making backups of your media, and fair use UNLESS the creator of that media puts a digital lock (DRM) on it. Which they all will. Which makes the exceptions worthless.
Canadians, write your MP!
More information from BoingBoing:
This is even worse than the approach the US DMCA took ten years ago, and look where that’s got them. Tens of thousands of Americans have been sued, key innovative technology companies have been destroyed, computer scientists have been jailed, and what did it get them? Certainly not an end to infringement — file-sharing is up in every country in the world. And for all the money the record industry has harvested from tech startups and music fans, not one dime has been paid to an artist.
As I’ve said before on this blog, industry-led actions like this are the thrashing about of dying dinosaurs. The Internet and digital commerce means an end to the companies that have taken control away from creators, and they know it and they’re trying everything they can to maintain their bottom line — including lobbying for disgusting new laws like this.
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