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In the interest of full disclosure, I suppose I have to fess up to having attended Williams. However, the many good times and incredible things I learned there are not the reason for it reaching Fave Wiki status. No, attending Williams only first brought me to this page. Valleywag has a great writeup about an upcoming FTC public hearing aimed at what sounds like propping up newspapers. The specifics of the hearing are best summarized in their article, so I won’t repeat it here. Just know that I wholeheartedly agree with their feelings on this issue. In my own post, I would like to draw attention to something that bothers me greatly about the current state of American regulation over media copyrights. This FTC hearing is only another piece in a much larger regulatory movement that seeks to stifle changes in how media is distributed in America. Shockingly, the paradigm shift of the internet is unique in all of American history for the way in which Congress and the courts have begun to take positions that stifle progress. No one reading this blog probably remembers these cases, but time and time again throughout American history, Congress and the courts have sided with the technological innovations of the day upon recognizing that all copyright monopolies are allowed only to “…promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” That’s from the Constitution. So, let’s have a little history lesson on the matter. Mel and I rented a car this weekend to go to the wedding of two of my friends from college. Happened to be up in Quechee, VT right about the peak of fall foliage. Much to our delight, the car rental company upgraded us to a Volvo C70 hard-top convertible. Pretty amazing weekend all around.
Slide [...] Bigs news that Pavement has reunited for a brief tour, including a 4-night stand in Central Park. Maybe I had to hit just the right age, but I was never really into Pavement until recently. I remember giving their albums a listen early in my high school days and just wasn’t feeling it. Fast forward [...] |
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