Fair Use Explained
“In the midst of a ‘haiku essay’ project: each essay is exactly 99 words long, plus one for the title,” Fair Use is explained. Below is the one for Fair Use…Copyright:
“Copyright
I love music, movies, and books. I also love technology. I want to use technology to deliver the media I love anywhere, anywhen, with anyone.
This is fair use: I bought it, let me use it. I will tell all my friends about my favorite music. I might play it for them or even give them a digital version of a song. This is evangelism, not theft. This is advertising you cannot buy.
Restrictive copyright is like a vegetarian knife. You bought the knife, but if you cut meat with it, we’ll sue you. Excuse me? Let’s think again.”
2600 To Be Illegal?
Well 2600: The Hacker Quarterly might soon be illegal in the U.K. if new changes to the Police and Justic Bill go through. Basically the new changes say it would be illegal to: “to make, adapt, supply, or offer to supply any article which is designed or adapted to impair the operation of a computer, prevent or hinder access to a computer, or impair the operation of any program or access to any data.” Which would really suck for 2600 readers in the U.K.–talk about Free Speech huh?
Make Windows Look Like A Mac
It seems that you can transform a Windows XP Computing enviorment into one that looks and feels like Mac OSX. All you have to do is download the transformation pack from FlyakiteOSX. Although I point out several things I found strange on FlyakiteOSX (http://www.flyakiteosx.com) toward the bottom of the page it states, “Please Note: http://osx.portraitofakite.com
