Monday, July 26, 2010

EFF Win Legalizes Some DVD Ripping

Bloggers' Rights at EFF
This is a narrow but huge victory for consumer rights. Average consumers can now bypass CSS (rip a DVD) to create mashups of short clips without violating the DMCA. It's unclear if this enables a new opportunity to provide circumvention tools (ripping software) to consumers.

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

Thursday, July 15, 2010

One Trillion Dollars

I found this great depiction of what a Trillion dollars would look like.