The Gadget Show #4
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the EFF’s Digital Liberation Television Front and the importance of understanding the threat to our wonderful world of gadgets and technology. Today’s guest, Wendy Seltzer, works for the EFF, and among other things is responsible for this and the Endangered Gizmo List. She gives us a great run down on some of the threats, and just what they are doing to help our freedom. It’s a must listen, because the repercussions of the legal battles they are fighting will be felt world wide. Spend just over thirty minutes listening to get a great run down, and then swing over to the EFF’s website to see what else they’re doing.
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The Gadget Show #4 - 12th March 2005 (32min 09sec): MP3 - 11.1MB
TIME
00:00 Network Intro
00:56 Welcome and introduction to Wendy Seltzer (Legal Tags : The Blog)
01:30 What’s Wendy’s jobs at the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wendy’s background
03:09 Using the digital transition to reduce the rights of the citizen, and the Endangered Gizmo List
07:23 Online music stores, DRM, incompatibility and peer-to-peer : Defending Grokster and Streamcast
10:45 Universal Studios vs Sony, banning the VCR
13:04 Fair Use in Australia (SMH had details a couple of weeks ago)
14:50 Bittorrent protected by the Betamax doctrine
16:44 Stifling innovation, like time shifting and space shifting
22:00 Skylink garage door opener, selling circumvention devises
24:00 Refurbished Lexmark toner cartridge and the overreaching claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
24:35 Being open and honest with customers, just like Cory licensing under Creative Commons (see Down and Out as an example) or Brad Sucks as an example of Open Source Music
27:35 Wendy’s favourite gadget : MythTV a home brew Personal Video Recorder
28:30 Broadcast Flag Regulation, stopping citizens recording digital TV - see the EFF to Join the Liberation Front of Digital Television
30:39 Thanks, and help support the EFF