I truly cannot believe that the Authors Guild is sticking to the untenable and astounding proposition that the Kindle 2 is infringing on authors’ copyrights because it includes a text-to-speech function. In an op-ed in the New York Times today, Authors Guild president Roy Blount says that the “quite listenable” text-to-speech audio on the Kindle [...]
Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, will reportedly start blocking its customers from accessing file-sharing sites, solely at the behest of the music industry. According to the Sunday Business Post, the Irish equivalent of the RIAA, the Irish Recorded Music Industry, has been threatening the country’s ISPs with legal action if they don’t do the same. And [...]