“Imposing on innovators, such as Intel, an obligation to anticipate potential uses of their innovations, to correctly guess which uses will predominate, and then to design their technologies to prevent infringing uses (even if it were technically and practically feasible to do so) would stifle innovation and dramatically increase the cost of such technologies and [...]
Archive for March, 2005
29 Mar
Grokster
Forget Star Wars premieres. A seat at the MGM Studios v. Grokster Supreme Court hearing Tuesday morning was the hottest ticket in town.
I wish I could have been there. Oh well, you can get a round up of what went on during the hearings today from Wired News as well as an article about the [...]
29 Mar
Happy birthday to me
I’m 17!
In other news the Grokster case Supreme Court hearings start today.
Today is the last day to claim free iTunes downloads.
23 Mar
Grokster case countdown
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been doing daily updates to a list of devices that will become illegal if things go bad MGM v. Grokster. The Grokster case, which will begin Supreme Court hearings on March 29th, is essentially a test of the 1984 Betamax rulling. The Betamax rulling decided that copying technologies could not [...]
19 Mar
Not him again
Sen. Orin Hatch, the man we all love to hate, is in the news again. This time he’s been appointed as the head of a senate committee on Intellectual Property.
The man who recommended that the music industry be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of those who share files online, the man who tried to [...]
13 Mar
Guilded Age
Here’s my essay on the Guilded Age that I wrote for my US History course:
The captains of industry were men who managed to become successful at business. These men worked hard to earn their positions as leaders in their industry, but most used business practices which were less than admirable, especially for anybody wanting to [...]
8 Mar
Censorship
I had a discussion with one of my teachers about freedom of speech and censorship. This discussion, of course, being started because of my post about Howard Stern. So, I’m going to make a longer post about censorship, without cussing.
The question we were discussing was whether or not the government had the right to censor [...]
6 Mar
I remembered
I finally remembered what it was that I was going to say, and it only took two days. I used OpenOffice.org and Silkscreen font to make a page that contains 324 instances of “jmweirick.com” on it. I printed it up and started puting the little pieces of paper all around my school. I stopped putting [...]
