Episode 38 – Backspaceware

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: Podcast

First off, to those who are celebrating, Happy Christmas Eve! I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday and enjoying the time away from work.

However, holiday aside, it is still Monday and, as usual, that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. Thanks to an extreme sense of dedication, the lack of a social life and the miracle of forward posting in WordPress, we will not miss a beat this holiday season.

As usual, I sat down with Chris Matthieu from Numly to discuss the past week in copyright news, views and abuse.

All totaled, the show had seventeen stories, including the following:

  • TorrentSpy Destroys Evidence and Then Gets Destroyed
  • Perez Hilton Gets Banned… Twice.
  • Microsoft Gets Sued For Copying Office XP Manuals
  • The Simpsons Test Fair Use
  • Did McDonald’s Lift Art from Trent Reznor?
  • And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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  • HA! I just read the fingerprint article and am trying to figure out how to implement that. I used copyscape to see if there was any stolen content but none came up.

    Thank you for the tip. I'll be reading up on more.
  • Lori: Thanks for the suggestion. I've considered adding such a feature but this site has been the subject of several Diggs/Slashdots/Farks in the past and not on what I, or most others, would consider the best articles.

    For example, the "What Porn Can Teach Us About Piracy" article would undoubtedly be considered the most popular:

    http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=386

    But it is something of a niche article at best. It just happened to get dugg. The same hold true for the DMCA on social news sites:

    http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/05/01/the-d...

    If I were going to give a real starting point, it would be the "Stopping Internet Plagiarism" section of the site, linked in the navigation portion. It is static content, but provides a much better primer on everything this site is about than any content in the feed.

    If you have anything specific that you need, feel free to email me or do a search. I've upgraded my WP search engine so it should be more useful than the default engine.

    Let me know what I can do to help!
  • Howdy:)

    One thing I love about blogcatalog & mybloglog widgets is that I can see who's been at my site. Anyhoo, I saw your face, which leads me to you. I've never been to your blog but I have heard of it. I am increasingly having problems with scrapers but wouldn't know how to see if any of my content has been stolen. Of course, none of mine is really worth stealing, nevertheless, it is mine and I would hate for people to use elsewhere.

    I noticed you don't have popular posts..I would love to know what some of the best/more important articles to read. Guess I gotta search;)
    You are officially in my reader now..I hope u and your family had a wonderful Christmas!
  • Melantrys:

    Merry Christmas to you as well!
  • Merry Christmas! :)
  • Beux: Happy Christmas to you as well!
  • beux
    Happy Christmas! and i am happy that i found you real interesting blog!
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