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How can one weblog change the face of the internet? BoingBoing, since 2000 has made us realize we can do something about the world.They made us think EFF. Think Sony DRM. And, now there's Citibank.
BoingBoing informs readers on everything from new technological gadgets to civil liberties defamement. Between the five columnists Cory, David, Xeni, John, and Mark, BoingBoing brings us information to enlighten, entertain, and change worldviews.
Changing the War
Reflections on the war in Iraq
- Boing Boing: Three years ago: Iraq war zeitgeist in BoingBoing archives
- On March 20, 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq began. I don't spend much time sifting through BoingBoing's archives, but just now I clicked on March, 2003 to look back at posts we made about the beginning of the war...
- Boing Boing: Photos: 3rd year since Iraq invasion marked with protests.
- Protests commemorating three years since the US-led invasion of Iraq are documented in photo streams at Flickr and other image-sharing sites.
- Boing Boing: Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
- Uncovered is a documentary about the way the White House distorted the truth in an attempt sell the American public and the rest of the world on its pre-emptive war on Iraq...
Uprooting DRM
Changing the world about digital rights management programs that hurt consumers
- Boing Boing: Sony DRM Debacle roundup Part VI
- ...tracing the history of all the misdeeds committed by Sony when it covertly installed malicious software on millions of music fans' PCs in order to restrict their ability to make lawful copies of their music....
- Boing Boing: Sony rootkit ripped off anti-DRM code to break into iTunes
- Sony's DRM supplier XCP ripped off a free software project so that it could defeat Apple iTunes.
Remember when Sony got nailed for including code an open-source crack for iTunes in its rootkit DRM? Princeton researcher Alex Halderman has been patiently teasing apart the rootkit, looking for an explanation. Why would Sony's arms-merchant rip off an anti-DRM program for its DRM? - Boing Boing: MPAA/RIAA subvert democracy with super-broadcast-flag bid
- The RIAA and MPAA have teamed up to demand that Congress get the FCC to create a super-duper broadcast flag for radio and TV. This means that they'll get a veto over pretty much anything that can play video or music -- from your iPod to your PC's tuner card...
Changing the Copyright
Wikipedia defines Copyfight as
"The copyright social conflict (sometimes jocularly referred to as the copyfight) is a name given to the broader social conflict between copyright owners who wish to control the acquisition and subsequent use by others of material they have copyrighted, and individuals who wish for barriers on information such as copyright to be relaxed or removed entirely."
"The copyright social conflict (sometimes jocularly referred to as the copyfight) is a name given to the broader social conflict between copyright owners who wish to control the acquisition and subsequent use by others of material they have copyrighted, and individuals who wish for barriers on information such as copyright to be relaxed or removed entirely."
- Boing Boing: Layperson's intro to the Copyfight
- Copyfighters aren't saying that information should be free. We are saying that as consumers of media (film, television, software, literature, etc.) we have certain rights that we would like to protect. One of these rights is Fair Use. Fair Use means that you can reuse copyrighted work without permission as long as you are commenting on it, or copying/parodying the original. Fair Use is what allows you to quote song lyrics when writing a review of a new CD. Another right is First Sale. First Sale means that when you buy something, you own it and are thus entitled to sell it to someone else. First Sale is what allows you to buy a book, read it, then sell it on half.com for someone else to enjoy...
- Boing Boing: Take the copyfight home
- If you can set the rules, you can win the contest. That's the major reason the entertainment cartel is winning the debate over copyright in the Digital Age...
New BoingBoing
Defeating Censorware
- BoingBoing's Guide to Defeating Censorware
- If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing's SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net -- or anything else online -- you can try the following workarounds...
Exposing Citibank
- Boing Boing: Citibank under fraud attack, customers locked out of accounts
- ...if you're a US Citibank customer trying to use your ATM card in Canada, Russia, or the UK right now -- at ANY network, not just Citibank's -- you may find yourself totally fuxx0red.
- Boing Boing: Citibank security breach: undisclosed *internally*, let alone publicly?
- What is a "class break?" In network security jargon, that's what happens when one breach leads to a whole new "class" of attacks on various systems, using similar methods.
- Boing Boing: Citibank PIN/ATM fiasco "worst ever," involves more banks
- The unfolding debit card scam that rocked Citibank this week is far from over, an analyst said Thursday as she called this first-time-ever mass theft of PINs "the worst consumer scam to date."
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