Listen "31 – Digital Rights and Privacy"
Episode Synopsis
Who can access the external part of your brain that you carry around in your pocket? What rights do you have to it? With Chase.
Police demand audio records from the Echo of a murder victim, Amazon displeased (more details)
EFF defends podcasting (as a whole) from a patent troll
Speaking of which – The EFF is the best. Seriously.
The pacemaker that thwarted a fire insurance fraud
The pacemaker that lives inside you is not legally yours and you can’t tamper with it
NewEgg defends online shopping carts from a patent troll
XKCD’s brilliant single-panel comic on DRM and piracy
iTunes deleted music off their user’s hard drive
A woman had her Kindle wiped by Amazon for using it in the wrong country
Published after we recorded – Why You Should Care About The Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges (From article – “you don’t “own” things like movies, music, or even the software on your phone; rather, it’s being licensed, which means companies can go to all kinds of lengths to keep controlling how, when, and where you use the things you’ve bought long after you’ve bought them.”)
Police demand audio records from the Echo of a murder victim, Amazon displeased (more details)
EFF defends podcasting (as a whole) from a patent troll
Speaking of which – The EFF is the best. Seriously.
The pacemaker that thwarted a fire insurance fraud
The pacemaker that lives inside you is not legally yours and you can’t tamper with it
NewEgg defends online shopping carts from a patent troll
XKCD’s brilliant single-panel comic on DRM and piracy
iTunes deleted music off their user’s hard drive
A woman had her Kindle wiped by Amazon for using it in the wrong country
Published after we recorded – Why You Should Care About The Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges (From article – “you don’t “own” things like movies, music, or even the software on your phone; rather, it’s being licensed, which means companies can go to all kinds of lengths to keep controlling how, when, and where you use the things you’ve bought long after you’ve bought them.”)
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