Is a pleasure to write about my favorite Techdirt posts from this week. I've been a longtime fan of Techdirt and can attest that the small crowd scholars technology (if any) in Congress are also avid readers. I was a staff member on Capitol Hill, who worked for House Republicans and author of the report on copyright reform (Article Techdirt). January 6, 2013, that no longer work at the Capitol, but I'm still involved in many technological problems, currently leading the defense of some of unlocking cell phones.



Techdirt an excellent resource when we fight SOPA - this time, I worked for Senator Scott Brown, who voted against SOPA and Techdirt Comment provided timely and accessible on topics SOPA and other technologies. Towards the beginning of the fight, when he was called COICA, the content industry came to visit with Senator Scott Brown and has been presented for the first time. It is presented as a bill that is relatively simple, "... end online piracy by blocking the address." My answer was: "Wait a DNS level, but you can not just type the IP address?" It quickly became apparent that this law is very problematic, because it would be censorship and extremely inefficient. AT this time, I wrote a 20-page memo internal to our office COICA was terrible. In my research, from the beginning, there were some articles on this subject, but Techdirt had a number of valuable resources as well as COICA before becoming SOPA / PIPA. This possibility was critical, and I'm not the only one that was used as a Techdirt resources.



is a common - Tactical Washington, DC, to make a problem seem more complicated than it is to intimidate dissenting voices - and unfortunately effective. This is especially true in the intellectual property laws. Even if it is not Certainly the complexity of intellectual property issues, the complexity due to the complexity is not productive, and I understand that can take arguments Techdirt complicated and even distill a public university that has no time to read literature in depth - but may be presented with some of these arguments for the first time.



So with that, I will turn to the stories of the week. This Week Techdirt continues to detail how some of our laws that affect technology have crazy obstacle to both the market and our civil liberties.


Masnick
First song on cell phones unlock now probably be illegal, was there, and their coverage beyond the current groundswell of support to reverse this situation was a great read. This is a question that I am personally involved I wrote the article on this subject in the Atlantic and the application designer and I wrote a follow-up article detailing how his business was closed due to release mobile phones increasingly illegal.



Masnick explains why: "Although the reasoning for not renewing the exemption is that many companies today allow unlocking anyway, this is not true at all levels, and there are many limitations. Just the fact that you have permission to do what you want with a device legally purchased and own care enough. "Many people seem to agree.



demand led now has more than 69,000 signatures, but readers Techdirt need help more than 100,000. This is clearly an issue that involved a lot of people who believe in the basic property rights and should be able to unlock their phones. The first part of the Atlantic reached over a million hits and was number one on Reddit.

Techdirt also consider public knowledge on the topic presented detailed Hangout President Obama yesterday. Despite being the eighth most popular question was not asked (but bloggers find the time to ask President Obama to help your child's name).

Techdirt other items like this week - in the context of the DMCA used to compromise the mechanical repair of your car - highlights how unlocking emission, while in the DMCA was created and sent to protect the copyright was used for radically different. It should not be entirely surprising that the DMCA may necessitate further evaluation and supervision. The DMCA was passed three years before the iPod, six years before Google Books and nine years before the Kindle. But now it is clear that the DMCA is interpreted in a manner clearly contrary to what has been approved, the holder of Congress to act. My article explains: "The inaction of Congress regarding the decision taken by the Library of Congress is a breach of the duty to adopt a new law adaptive coding technology for the blind, backup DVD to your computer, and open and break the prison. phones are legal activities independently of the decisions of the Library of Congress. "



If you agree, I hope you will also sign the petition and make us more than 100,000 people.
Secondly, I have to break some rules posts of the week and suggest that clock every video Copyright PandoHouse Explanation Rock - It's quite amazing that, but technically was last Friday.
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