Tag: LAWRENCE LESSIG

With Congressman Tom Lantos' recent death, some attention has been given to the idea of Lawrence Lessig, running for the vacant Silicon Valley seat in a special election in June. The idea is purely speculative at this point, however, there are some signs that a bid could be in the works. For one thing, Facebook has a new group, "Draft Lessig for Congress," with 425 682 members at the time of ...

Say you want to introduce people to the benefits of free (as in speech and sometimes as in beer) culture. What better way than to take a whole bunch of freely distributed files, pack them together onto a DVD and give it away? The Free Me! DVD packs an awful lot onto a single disc. You get: An Ubuntu Linux LiveCD A bunch of movies that will play in a DVD player A whole slew of public domain ...

The Haz-Mat suited activists of DefectiveByDesign gained quite a bit of exposure when they waltzed into Apple stores across the country carrying signs and informing customers about the rights they give up when buying DRM controlled music from the iTunes Music Store. Our sister site, The Digital Music Weblog (she prefers to be called TDMW for short) caught up with the crafty folks at ...