Link to the artist's website, here's a direct link to the larger jpeg. You can buy a print of this and many other lovely images (like this one, wow) right here. (Thanks, Jason Schultz)
Reader comment: Allygal says,
— Read the restHi, I love your blog, and am a very long time reader!
"Assraelis" (nsfw) producer Oren Cohen shot his adult film in Hebrew with an all-Israeli cast. He stuck the the Hebrew letter kof, with a "k" tucked inside, on the cover. Then came the rabbinic nastygram:
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"As a leading company in the area of kosher food certification, companies are only contractually authorized to utilize the Kof-K trademark to promote and/or market their food products," the letter said.
Sheriff Andy Taylor lectures Opie on the ethical and legal issues around unauthorized eavesdropping in this clip from the Andy Griffith Show. Link (Thanks, Jason Schultz!)
Reader comments: Guilherme Roschke from epic.org says.
— Read the restI shared the video with my colleagues here at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Griefer Madness continues! Responding to BoingBoing posts (1, 2) about serial internet bully Michael Crook — and coverage on Wired's 27BStroke6 security blog — Washington, DC attorney and tech law specialist Ethan Ackerman offers legal insight. He reminds us that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), not Crook, is the real bad guy here, and points out that ISPs and photo or video-hosting services have more options when sent a DMCA notice here than they may realize:
— Read the restRegarding your coverage of the so-richly-deserved EFF suit filed against
Michael Crook on 27b/6 & boingboing, you both repeat the assertion
that an ISP has to (BoingBoing) "take immediate action, even before
proof of copyright ownership was examined" or (27b/6) "act immediately
to have an image removed, even before they check if the claim is
correct."
If this were a movie, they'd call it Griefer Madness.
(Story background here). Serial internet bully Michael Crook, whom the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing for sending phony DMCA takedown notices to critical blogs in an attempt to silence them, has issued a phony DMCA takedown notice to BoingBoing in an attempt to silence us. — Read the rest
Next Tuesday at 7PM, I'm hosting a public talk at USC by Revver co-founder Steven Starr. Revver is a company that helps video creators add commercials to their short films, which creates a situation where the more a video is copied, the better it is for the creator. — Read the rest
Next Tuesday night, October 3, I'm hosting a free talk by Wendy Seltzer, the lawyer who founded EFF's Digital TV liberation front — teaching people how to build the TV sets that the Broadcast Flag would ban — and the Chilling Effects project — which documents and analyzes the nastygrams used to censor Internet speech. — Read the rest
Update: YouTube's response is here (scroll down to the end of the post).
Earlier today on BoingBoing, I pointed to discussions around the blogosphere about YouTube's newly updated Terms & Conditions. As Eliot Van Buskirk wrote on the Wired News music blog "Listening Post," the new policy appears to give YouTube more rights over user-uploaded content than before. — Read the rest
Link (Thanks, Jason Schultz)
A federal judge ruled last week that an employment discrimination suit against the Library of Congress, brought by the ACLU on behalf of a transgender veteran, may go forward. Plaintiff Diane Schroer is a male-to-female transsexual and a 25-year veteran of the U.S. — Read the rest
Jason Schultz says,
— Read the restHere's a PDF copy of the actual order in the Department of Justice subpoena to Google for porn search results and queries (Gonzales v. Google). It's not every day that you see the phrases "teabagging" and "pearlnecklace" footnoted in a legal opinion — see page 8, footnote 3.
Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Max Baucus, (D-MT) have proposed a bill that would require all commercial websites with material "harmful to minors" (in other words, sexually explicit content) to move to a .xxx domain within 6 months of this bill becoming law — or face civil penalties. — Read the rest
Jason Schultz says,
— Read the restPeter J. Biondi, NJ Assemblyman for District 16, has introduced A1327, a bill to force every ISP and website with comments/forums to demand user identification from every single poster (called an "information content provider" in the bill).
I'll be a guest on ABC World News Tonight Thursday evening for a segment on the significance of a milestone for Apple's iTunes Music Store: the one billionth song was purchased and downloaded today. Will the success of iTMS and Apple's iPod foster a more competitive digital music marketplace, with more choice for music fans? — Read the rest
UPDATE: Report confirmed as hoax, Link to BB update.
Widespread debate today over whether the South Coast Today story "DHS visits student over Little Red Book" is a hoax, or contains unsubstantiated non-facts. But the reporter who filed it maintains otherwise; update and details at bottom of this post. — Read the rest
This Tuesday evening, Brewster Kahle blogged:
— Read the restTonight we launched our bookscanning initiative and presented a vision of an Open Library. At the event, Microsoft Network (MSN) joined the Open Content Alliance and committed to kick off their support by funding the digitization of 150,000 books in 2006!
Fox has shuit down a plan to perform a fan version of the Buffy musical episode, Once More with Feeling, even though creator Joss Whedon has asked them not to. Jason Schultz has written a great analysis of this here. — Read the rest
Jason Schultz snapped this fine photo of a band- members- wanted ad in the East Bay. The singer "must be able to do death metal screams."
(Thanks, Jason!)
Boing Boing pal Jason Schultz says, "I'm not surprised about banning chat rooms where people talk about adult sex with kids, but banning all kids from all chat rooms? That's crazy. I remember in the late 90's all these great stories about gay teens in the midwest who found community in online chat rooms and felt less depressed and it lowered their suicide rate significantly." — Read the rest
Jason Schultz forwards this news:
— Read the restThe House of Representatives approved H.R. 3132, the Children's Safety Act, on a vote of 371 to 52, that would amend the recordkeeping provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 2257 (currently requiring records to be kept of the ages and other information of performers in visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct).
