that the DeCSS Trial began by showing a clip of The Matrix. The matrix, in the movie, is an artificial world over which practically no one has any control – a seamless environment. Which seems pretty similar, in a way (though I know it’s more than a little disingenuous to say so), to what the Digital Millennium Copyright Act would propose. A world in which no one but the owners have any access to any media product (aka song, story, book, creative thought).
I was away
in Ottawa again, this time for the whole weekend. I must say the city I saw this weekend was much more familiar to me than I’d seen in recent visits, which is a very good thing. I saw a certain Aunt from Alta Vista who I don’t see very often, who mentioned exactly how much older my cousin is than I am, which in turn confirmed to about 95% certainty that my cousin was in a specific person’s grade 8 class, which is really funny news. No embarrassing link, but there might be one person chuckling while they read this. Oh – said cousin now teaches at that very same school.
A portent of things
to come? Razorfish is being sued for what their client thinks was bad, unprofessional web design. “[…] The company delivered (late) a site that was ‘flawed by grave technical and navigational problems.'”
It’d be fun
to go to fray day 4 in San Francisco. I haven’t been there in about 10 years, and it’s quite obvious that the event would be fantastic. Hmmm.
I’m becoming
a huge fan of [Inside]. Their coverage of the Napster/RIAA hearings in Washington is excellent. I’m also a huge fan of Pat Leahy, who I think of as a neighbour of us Montrealers, coming just from down there in Vermont.
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