One year ago today
Thoughts from a Japanese Media Pirate: This isn’t to oppose copyright. I agree that we need copyright law, but also that we should have access to everything. I’m all for supporting artists and buying their work, but is anyone suffering for the existence of mashups? Personally, I feel for my parents, who live week-to-week on my Dad’s garment factory paycheck (where he makes jeans for less than $10 a pair, which end up priced at $300 in the store) supplemented by odd jobs my mom takes up. They’re suffering too. Can you say the suffering of media companies is equivalent? I don’t think so. I think we should be able to use these things the way we want to.
Five years ago today
DHS perfects the abusive EULA: Imagine the federal government making you agree to waive your legal rights in order to read about one of its programs!
Ten years ago today
Farming RPG: Nelson Minar describes Harvest Moon, an SNES farming-simulation game.