How does this site get away with posting pics from baumraum.de and not post the link, and yet has ads on the site?!?! I'm getting sick of this stuff. It's theft, pure and simple.
- Justin (guest) 11-12-2008 7:12 pm [add a comment]

Don't promote this shit, Bill. It's some Pakistani running the site, and frankly it's people like him that are destroying the blogosphere.

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Pixact.com
Naveed Javaid (domains@hostpixact.com)
PIXact.com, Shahrah-e-Faisal
Karachi
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PK

And yes, I'm majorly cranky today.
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- anonymous (guest) 11-12-2008 7:18 pm [add a comment]

uh oh. i knew it was just swiped net junk. thanks ill repost to original asap.
- bill 11-12-2008 8:23 pm [add a comment]

now fixed - accept no subtitute for treehouse porn!!!!
- bill 11-12-2008 9:52 pm [add a comment]

LOL
- Justin (guest) 11-13-2008 4:59 pm [add a comment]

swiped net junk is my middle name, and the name of the class I am teaching at the U of Guelph. (right now, as I write, 'cause they are sort of boring me today) I explained some copyright law to them today. Basically everything I taught them to do is illegal, and they are all going to jail where they will be my bitches and sell cigarettes for me. Yup, I'm bored right now.
- L.M. 11-13-2008 8:47 pm [add a comment]

speaking of junk. since im neither a fan of the naom-ster nor the helmut-ster, i think this is very very funny. go the pad-ster! surly looking nakid model on vacation warning!!
- bill 11-13-2008 8:56 pm [add a comment]

I showed that link to my students today, for an example of a cease and desist letter, and also talked about when they might want to write one themselves. (for example: would you want swastikas slapped on your web art and thrown up on some White Power web site?)
- L.M. 11-13-2008 9:11 pm [add a comment]

For the Copy Left, as for Hyde, the last 20 years have witnessed a corporate “land grab” of information — often in the guise of protecting the work of individual artists — that has put a stranglehold on creativity, in increasingly bizarre ways. Over dinner not long ago, he told me about the legal fate of Emily Dickinson’s poems. Dickinson died in 1886, but it was not until 1955 that an “official” volume of her collected works was published, by Harvard University Press. The length of copyright terms has expanded substantially in the last century, and Harvard holds the exclusive right to Dickinson’s poems until 2050 — more than 160 years after they were first written. When the poet Robert Pinsky asked Harvard for permission to include a Dickinson poem in an article that he was writing for Slate about poetic insults, it refused, even for a fee. “Their feeling was that once the poem was online, they’d lose control of it,” Hyde told me.

That's great info, thanks.
- L.M. 11-16-2008 5:17 pm [add a comment]