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As well as something else besides nonfree, proprietary audio players and views of things. Also, streaming, webcasting, audio & video archives, free ["More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom,..."] software, FSF (Free Software Foundation), EFF: Archive, DRM, WiFi...
April 12, 2005
Include "Patriot Acts", selected music programs, etc.
Internet radio, webcasting, and other existing and evolving fruits of innovation, and the internet in generally (Bhopal "survivors" - - www.thing.net) may be 'limited, repressed and controlled' by various means related to "consent without consent" much like the US Patriot Act - infringment of civil liberties - but as is usually the case you can do something.
The current dampened extent of even awareness, let alone use and further possibilities - the result maybe likened to a US form of Britain's Official Secrets Act (see Democracy NOW!, FSRN, etc.), apparently would be even more so if not for some forms of independent media - certainly not the 'Newspaper of Record' or other "[corporate] Free Press" - forms of media where admissible discussion is limited by a 'liberal-conservative' spectrum leaving the details and qualifications aside.
Time might be spent focusing on how best to ignore international law, facts, historical recollections of US "friends" turned "foe", and how best to "rid the world of evil". As if Iraqi soldiers who likely have no option under the near unimanous agreement of a brutal regime other than to use 'rifles and grenades' against what at least one from 'military intelligence' says could include even additional weapons that are in development.
Persuade others to persuade themselves". Increase independent media support, allow more people to judge for themselves. Take your pick, corporate media, "Washington-media", "officials, say", State-corporate, "prison-industrial-university" complex all have a view of reality quite unlike the reporting and references provided by Democracy NOW!, Free Speech Radio News, www. Iraq Journal.org, Z Magazine, Znet..., Alternative Radio, National Radio Project (NRP) , or any views presented by radio - "street and web" - reference in AirwaveWEB.
As more and more people begin to note the disparity between US corporate media reporting and other parts of the world it might be as useful as the "Vietnam Syndrome" that lead more citizens to complement will with the power they already have. It also displays the "propaganda model" in action, the lack of a US public service radio with concerns other than predominately private interests, all of which are facilitating even more outcomes to connect, hopefully with 'non-web' using citizens too, for anyone who knows what 'democracy looks like' or is involved in effort to help someone else.
(side note; I had not accessed or referred to a 'public radio' site in some time; just saw that one of their programs now has transcripts available online in addition to audio archive. On a recent program a caller noted some views about people who appar ently they think otherwise since it was transcribed with the comments mostly left to one's memory or archive, or "..." as was done rather than include the caller's viewpoint, and as evident by usual narrow presentation, not just in voices literally.)
This quickly prepared and limited initial reference is with an eye to more and more February 15's, people coming together not to just haggle over individual issues as somewhat disjoint groups for a day, but to direct continued worldwide efforts, o n-going Bhopal, Marshall Islands (see www.afsc.org, www.fsrn.org/news/ - add date of segment), India's violence upon women - dowry related, facilitating examples of US induced democracy throughout Latin America to be more widely known, water privatizati on, Vandana Shiva, Helen Caldicott, a blanket of other concerns, and also Open Software, wireless, independent media, sharing with music listeners and of course others.
Technical aspects likely to affect such listeners are well noted in EFF (see below) but the breath of connection with independent media could be greater.
"The DMCA is being used to silence researchers, computer scientists and critics. Corporations are using it against the public. Public/College radio stations can no longer afford to webcast."
I don't usually link to these but the FAQ gives a sense of fees and 'statist-quo processes: DMCA licensing fees
this is all cut short for now: add Glossary: webcasting, streaming,
What are the developments and implications of Webcasting ...
These and others terms and ideas and concerns you may only know if you follow DMCA issues, are involved with Copyleft, FSF, exeriences ramifications of the Patriot Act, or heard of Amer Jubran and others via IndyMedia or other forms of independent media.
It's as if corporate media and so-called US public radio and TV have add some words to George Carlin's original Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: DMCA, CARP, webcasting generally, copyleft, Depleted Uranium, etc. - much else of the existing different realms of corporate media as compared with most independent media excluding what is considered Free P ress and hate oriented AM radio and such. Even when public radio talks about "securty and civil liberties" or myths of liberal media" it is still managed to leave out even noting the Patriot Acts and other quite relevent topics and persons.
ACLU (MA) - amazing not to see prominent links to these issues.
legal cases add www.subertise.org 'Em: Bow to Shareholders and others.
About Grassroots and Community Media Paul Riismandel, Sept. 1996:
So what are Grassroots and Community Media anyway?
"There's the fantasy of having a links page with lots of sites I find interesting, updates on the fight to keep webcasting free,..." I'd add free from corporate control too.
"Radio Free Conscience a radio show on grassroots and community media." Scatter this URL! www.mediageek.org
add organizations, discussion lists...
And while Internet radio is "chained to the desktop" today for most consumers, that's not going to be true much longer. The continuing growth of broadband connections to the web, the continuing penetration (and, to Bezos's point, improving ease-of-install ation and usage) of WiFi networks in the home and elsewhere, and the continuing evolution of new personal access devices (e.g., cell phones and PDAs with built-in media players) means that our world in a few years will look much different than it does tod ay.
The Center for Public Integrity
"Retailers are pioneering radio-frequency identification, in which electronic sensors monitor signals sent by radio chips embedded in products. "I don't think the average consumer understands the threat to personal privacy that these kinds of technologies can present," said Alan N. Sutin, a partner specializing in information technology at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig. Even the United States Postal Service has gotten into the act. Last month, it promoted Charles E. Bravo, until then its chief technol ogy officer, to the new job of senior vice president for intelligent mail and address quality, and charged him with studying tracking technologies."
"TIA EFF needs YOU! As the saying goes, "democracy is not a spectator sport." Freedom requires eternal vigilance and action. Please check our alerts page regularly, and take whatever action you can on thes e vital issues."
digital rights management (DRM) (fair use, add other terms)
Marjorie Heins: AdddFirst Amendment Actvist Marjorie Heins Releases New Book - Not in Front of the Children Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship and the Innocence of Youth, by First Amendment attorney and scholar Marjorie Heins, explores the fascinating history of "indecency" laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth. From Plato's a rgument for rigid censorship, through Victorian laws aimed at repressing libidinous thoughts, Heins guides us through what became, and remains, an ideological minefield. With examples drawn from around the globe, she suggests that the "harm to minors" arg ument rests on shaky foundations, and that much more effective, non-censorial methods exist for educating youth to be media literate and sexually responsible.
First Amendment lawyers may be useful from time to time, but as far as I'm concerned, it's librarians who make intellectual freedom a reality in people's lives. From combating Internet filters and other efforts to censor youth, to helping bridge the "digi tal divide," libraries have been on the front lines of all the important free-expression battles.
add dup? by Marjorie Heins: Today I want to talk to you about a new battleground in the culture wars -- copyright. Or, as it is sometimes oxymoronically called, intellectual property. I say oxymoronic because literature, music, and other creations of the human imagination are not th e same as land, cars, or corporate bonds things we ordinarily think of as property. The media companies that control most copyrights in this country of course disagree -- which explains why copyright is such a hotbed of political strife today. For in ord er to protect their intellectual property, these companies have persuaded Congress to pass sweeping and troublesome new laws, with tongue-twister names like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or, for shor t, the DMCA).
"He who receives an idea from me," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "receives instruction himself without lessening mine." When it came to land, Jefferson was a fierce defender of private ownership; but intellectual property, he believed, belonged to the public. H owever, in drafting the Constitution, Jefferson lost out to the pragmatist James Madison, and so creators were granted exclusive copyrights to their works for limited times. "
Musician and Activist Pete Seeger.
(rebroadcast) . "Now that he's helped clean up the Hudson River, he's turned his thoughts to new technology and is wondering where have all the poor people gone in the planning stages of this brave new way of communicating?"
Why is the Record Industry So Afraid of Napster.
"Napster is the latest proof that revolutions can come in small packages.
Some say Napster is a dangerous computer program that facilitates piracy and crashes college computer systems across the country, forcing many universities to ban its use.
But this isn't some malicious virus. To its users Napster's a way to share music online for free and its use an expression of free speech.
Napster creates a community out of the MP3 music libraries of all its users and cleverly blurs the lines between web-surfer and web-server. And it's signed up 5 million users since September.
MP3's better-than-CD quality has already convinced many college-age Americans to put their CD player back in the box and to sell-off old disks - and Napster helps you build an entire MP3 music library on-line and for free.
That's a lot of people buying a lot fewer CDs. Hundreds of millions of music tracks have been traded - and to the old-label-thinking of the record industry, Napster is point-and-click piracy for the people, plain and simple - and they've sued to prove it.
To watchers of the new economy, though, Napster looks like the next big thing - a business model that challenges not only the music industry, but movies, TV, books and art and very notion of intellectual property on the net.
The Napster Revolution - in the first hour of The Connection with Alec Foege, author of a forthcoming Book about Napster entitled "Record Speed," and Gian Caterine, Director of Business Development at www.emusic.Com."
Prof. Larry Lessig, of the Harvard Law School.
Larry Lessig and Cyber Law. November 10, 1999.
"The Washington Post called Lawrence Lessig the "legal nerd from Cambridge" who could be "big trouble for the software nerds from Redmond." The judge in the Microsoft case appointed him as a Special Master - a kind of researcher and tutor to the bench.
Larry Lessig's the go-to guy when it comes to constitutional big think and cyber-law. He helped post-Soviet Georgia write it's constitution and studied those nations newly minted out of the old the Eastern Bloc.
He found that Eastern Europe after communism seemed to hold on to the same kind of libertarian purism that "Hacktevists" do - one that says if less government is better, no government is best of all.
That idea didn't work for the Eastern Bloc, Lessig says, and it isn't working for cyberspace either. Already what was a commons is becoming a tool for corporations and the state. Laws as we know them won't save it, but code can, because in cyberspace, cod e is law.
We're hacking our way into virtual regulation, in the first hour of the Connection."
"Napster was supposed to be the killer app - it was easy to use, an instant hit and along with millions of file swappers it grabbed the headlines too.
But it turns out the lawyers are the real killers and now the courts are shutting napster.com down. But the word on the street is that Napster is just the beginning for peer to peer technology, coming down the road is a new generation of p2p apps with str ange names like Gnutella, Freenet and Bearshare."
add" "New technologies have a tendency to disrupt the accepted way of doing things, since well before John Henry and the steam drill, and Gutenberg's printing press. The tension between new and old is always high at moments of transition. Such a transition is upon us now.
The Digital Media Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, in collaboration with Gartner|G2, the business strategy research arm for Gartner Inc., aims to extend our understanding of the current landscape and unresolved questions related to th e distribution, use, and control of digital media. In particular, the Berkman Center and Gartner|G2 are conducting a study of how the shift to digital media (primarily music, movies and books) is affecting the legal and regulatory landscape. The Project w ill produce a foundational paper identifying the critical features of technological, economic, and legal change that have resulted in the current situation. From there, the project will propose and critically analyze potential legal and business models fo r the future, with the goal of shedding light on the current directions of digital media distribution on the Internet while balancing the interests of consumers, artists and entertainment companies, and technology manufacturers.
The cultural importance of media, and the rapid development of media technologies, make this pursuit imperative and all the more so because of how far we are from a solution. Lawmakers, artists, consumers, and technologists all want the distribution of mo vies, music, and more through the Internet. The questions are manifold: How? How can we control piracy and protect consumers' rights? Should the government regulate digital media, or should the market be left alone? Must technology inventors be accountabl e to content creators? While the answers to these types of questions have been pondered, the future of digital media distribution remains uncertain.
This situation will soon changeperhaps too soon. Both consumer groups and entertainment companies have recently endorsed new Congressional bills to protect their respective rights. While entertainment companies are endeavoring to incorporate technological means to restrict uses of their creations, consumers and technology creators fight in court for the right to circumvent these restrictions. These conflicts are coming to a head, and without the proper frameworks and critical thinking, we may end up with a solution that benefits the stronger lobby group at the expense of the public.
Any potential solution must balance the interests of consumers, artists, entertainment industry and technology manufacturers only then will we have a foundation for future growth. The Project combines a variety of methodologies, and hopes that the results will be valuable to academic, legal, business and consumer interests. To that end, the Project will scrutinize the economics of digital media distribution, while also discussing judicial, legislative and technological topics.
Peer to peer means there's no central server to serve the injunction to, the lawyers don't have anybody or anything to rout. In the post-Napster world the courts aren't the ones writing the code. Peer to peer means people to people, stringing PC's togethe r with out a center."
add: "The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 150 organization and 11,000 individual members in over 182 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organiz ation home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force."
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Background:
"On June 25th, Rick Tait, a Time Warner Cable customer in New York, received an overnight letter from his ISP. Rick had been operating an open wireless access point, hanging a low-cost wireless hub off of his cable-modem connection and making the service from his ISP available to his neighbors and to passers-by. The letter from Time-Warner sternly upbraided him for this: You should be aware that this is a very serious problem that goes beyond the theft of our services. Individuals utilizing the Road Runner system in this manner to carry out criminal activity, would be able to so in an anonymous manner. In such circumstanc es, when law enforcement attempted to trace such activity, the trail would end with your account. It is not our desire at this time to sue you, and we assume that it is not your desire to allow unknown users to anonymously plan crimnal acts through your account. However, your wireless broadcast of the Road Runner service must immediately cease and des ist. Rick posted the letter to his site, and soon others came forward to disclose that they, too, had received threatening notes from Time Warner Cable. Rick is part of the NYC Wireless project, a group of public-spirited individuals who are setting up low-cost wireless hubs that use the 802.11b ("WiFi") standard to provide Internet access to their neighbors. The NYC Wireless group rose to prominence in t he aftermath of the 9-11 attacks on Manhattan. From first-hand reports, survivors used anonymously donated Internet connections to get the word out about the action on the ground due to direct contributions from NYC Wireless members. The NYC Wireless group was on the front lines of disaster relief in Manhattan from the moment the attacks began." |
EFF Media Release Judge Grants Consumer Voice in : "The entertainment industry claims that commercial skipping infringes copyright and digital recording aids piracy."
"I'm not a crook if I skip commercials or share a news interview of myself with my mom using the SendShow feature rather than sending her a videotape," said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org and a ReplayTV owner. "I shouldn't have to worry about ge tting prosecuted, but the Turner Broadcasting CEO tells us that taking a bathroom break is criminal. We even have Senators urging Attorney General Ashcroft to prosecute people who share files." <....> Rio Diamond Multimedia above reply TV send / not have to send tape...
An introduction to compressed audio...
Boycott RIAA or be aware on its potential impact on you... (limited site, short of connections to media, etc.
Radio [station] Locater handy for future Internet Radio players?
| What is Copyleft? (www.gnu.org):
"Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well." Philosophy of Software Freedom Series Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. |
"While there are several different reasons we could give you to justify our usage of Ogg/Vorbis over MP3 technology, the biggest is this. Ogg/Vorbis is open source. MP3 is not. At any time the author of MP3 technologies could demand funds for their encoders. Since we use Ogg/Vorbis, we do not have to worry about that scenario."