Electronic Arts decided to drop online authorization DRM for Sims 3. Honestly, my eyes popped in amazement. Then a slow smile appeared on my face. Let me explain why this is a really good move.

When you go into a business venture it is important to begin the journey with the right frame of mind. Those that want to get rich quick usually do not succeed. Knowing the history of the community can give great insight on your odds of success for getting rich quick or getting rich off of another company’s IP.

People start new businesses everyday. Online ventures are easy and cheap to start. Cheap many times translates to “I don’t have to put a lot of thought into this”. Let’s be real, ok? When the internet was more expensive to access people thought out their plans more before hopping online. The by the minute access [...]

Updated 7/29/08: Scrabulous has been disabled in Facebook for US and Canada users. Hasbro, owner of the trademark for Scrabble, filed a lawsuit against the creates of Scrabulous for trademark infringement via the Scrabulous Facebook application. A DMCA was also sent to Facebook to remove the application. I do not use the application (I rarely [...]

DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the Company will cease operation of its Stage6.com video service on February 28, 2008. I was stunned to read it because two weeks ago they were encouraging people to upload video. I’m sad to see Stage6 go, it was my favorite place to watch movies. That [...]

Yesterday I read about Rebekka’s copyright issues. To make a long story short she uploaded some images to Flickr (beautiful photography), a company saw her images, downloaded them and resold them…making thousands of dollars. Rebekka attempted to protect herself by uploading images in a lesser resolution but the company was still able to achieve enough [...]

Let’s say you create a business. You’re doing your thing and you have a specific set of goals in mind. Fighting the digital revolution ain’t one of them. Someone posts code on your site that is knowingly against ToS. You think it’s cool but in the end take it down to avoid the legal hassle. [...]

MySpace demanded that GoDaddy pull the plug on Seclists.org, which hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources, because a list of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords was archived on the site. GoDaddy complied. In a move that Seclists.org owner Fyodor Vaskovich said happened with no prior notice, the company deleted [...]

It intrigues me why people do the things they do. In the Editing Comments note I understand completely where people are coming from about being tempted in editing comments (although I am not, ever tempted, to edit anyone’s words). What intrigues me are people who are told there are legal issues doing it but their [...]