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But the launch raises one huge question for me: since Amazon chose to quit hosting the Wikileaks site what kind of media will Amazon allow customers to store? The Wikileaks Collateral Murder video? Leaked docs downloaded from the site and the many other leak engines that are springing up? Amazon has already sidestepped the issue of whether the content it is hosting is legally downloaded or not by saying its service is simply the equivalent of an external hard drive for content.
- Paul Marks on the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive.
Putting data onto online services is certainly handy, but can you really claim to own it if you can no longer control it?
From Boing Boing:
In a T-shirt sold in 2008 to raise money for victims of violence in Darfur, artist Nadia Plesner depicted an African child holding a Louis Vuitton-style bag. So Louis Vuitton sued her. When she recently included the same design in a painting, it sued her again.
The first time around, Louis Vuitton claimed it wanted merely to stop her from selling the merchandise. This time, however, there is little pretense that it is about anything other than wanting the image gotten rid of.
Here is the image:
Discussing attempts to stamp out leaks, David Lacey makes the point:
[W]e need to rethink our philosophy towards information management. The key to the future is openness and trust, not secrecy and caution.
It’s a statement of the obvious, I know, but one that bears repeating.
… comes from The One-Thousand
Dear Some People On The Internet,
You get upset at stupid things.
Many people die horrible and unjust deaths in this world. Many starve. Babies are beaten to death.
And you throw shitfits when someone offends you with their words.
Go read the rest.
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