ovvalsen’s Comments

• Feb 27th, 2012 @ 12:17pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Sony Music Exec: The Internet Is Full Of Opportunities & Not A Problem; Intransigent Collection Societies, However...

  This article was a nice break from the tedious lecture of the latest Playstation 3's license agreement which I started to read 11 days ago and which Sony asks me to wholly read and accept before moving on playing that game with great reviews which I bougth. If all goes well, I have only 17 more days of reading before I can decide whether I accept the agreement. (By the way, what happens if I don't accept?)

• Feb 10th, 2012 @ 6:33am

  My letter to the Editor

  on Newspaper Boss Says Newspapers Need More Money... Because New Media Steals & May 'Destroy Civil Society'

  I wrote a letter to the Editor to respond to the article. Here it is:
  

  Re. "New media could 'destroy civil society'"
  
  lol
  
  Regards,
  xxxxx

• Feb 8th, 2012 @ 10:32am

  DMCA is *already* used as a censorship tool

  on RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA

  RIAA clown: "Consider, for example, the claim that SOPA and PIPA were 'censorship,' a loaded and inflammatory term designed to evoke images of crackdowns on pro-democracy Web sites by China or Iran."
  
  DMCA is *already* used as a censorship tool, so of course we will expect worst from a bill which go far beyond DMCA. Just a recent example, last week Michael Geist posted, "Transport Canada Issues DMCA Takedown Over On-the-Record Response"
  http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6288/196/

• Jan 31st, 2012 @ 11:57am

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  on Author Jonathan Franzen Thinks That Ebooks Mean The World Will No Longer Work

  I was already horrified by the concept of paper books, we should have kept publishing on carved stones, *that's* permanent.