RIAA ends war against consumers, remains silly.

Tiny Mix Tapes has an excellent update on the RIAA's case against Joel Tenenbaum, a student that downloaded 7 songs and is being sued for one million dollars. The judge has agreed to allow the trial to be broadcast live through streaming video on the Internet, a decision which the RIAA is fighting. Furthermore, the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Havard Law School (Tenenbaum's pro-bono legal aid) will be distributing the video under the Creative Commons license.

Well done.

Interview - Siva Vaidhyanathan

Here is an awesome interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist In The Library, gripped from Lawrence Lessig's blog. It's a few years old, but the issues he raises (corporate media vs. the creative commons, the post-9/11 erosion of civil liberties, the possibilities for good and evil uses of the internet) are still just as pressing today.