• Next, they're going to ask cell phone users and phone companies for royalties for ringtones!
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This article summarizes a law suit looking for money for Ringing up cash: ASCAP suing AT&T for ringtone "performance" 

Kindle is getting some great reviews from a usability perspective, but the usability implications and the advertising verses reality leaves something to be desired.  here's some highlights from a blog I just came across:

• Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly | Gear Diary (-)

• Michael Geist - Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society (-)

This Article from Ars Technica, shows that none of the costs of peer to peer file sharing are totally made up.  Its breathtaking in the exposure it gives to the RIAA/MPAA's lack of merit that the figures they give for piracy and peer to peer file sharing.the estimate of 750,000 jobs lost. (Is that supposed to be per year? Acumulative total over some undefined span? Those who cite the figure

Ars Technica has a great article on the FBI's use of HoneyPots to find people interested in Child Pornography, with a link to an extended story at C|Net. The short story is that the Feds have been posting links purporting to be links to child pornography, then getting search warrants for the homes of the owner of the IP address that owns the IP address.

Via SlashDot.com: This Article, by Kevin Kelly, entitled "Better Than Free", is an Awesome! discussion of the way the web is changing the economy of the information society. I would summarize his thesis as approximately now that the economics of scarcity has been transformed into one where this is no inherent scarcity, producers need to find other ways to differentiate themselves. He then goes on to list some of those ways (e.g. Trust, accessibility and interpretation).

Here’s an interesting article from ars technica on community owned, public wi-fi access in the Toronto area called Wireless Nomad. It provides for community ownership of the ISP, and Requires users to provide open access to their user’s wifi hotspots.

This is a great idea, IMO (you use a credit union for your personal banking right?). Ars explains why this model won’t currently work in the United States. However, its a great argument for why you should share your wireless hot spot at home.