…my new show on Talkshoe…

I’ve decided to put my talkcast, “JohnB’s Digital Graffiti Talkcast”, on permanent hiatus and start up a new show. I’m going to call it “The JohnB Show” and email contact will be johnbshow@gmail.com. I will no longer be accepting show emails to johnb@vista.aero, so please take note.

You can view “The JohnB Show” page at Talkshoe.com here.

in Today’s News..

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredsen (D) will be presented with a new bill in the upcoming days. This bill, is designed to require all universities that are funded in part or fully by the state, to monitor all network traffic in an effort to stop copyright infringment. If a university in the state of Tennessee were to receive 10 complaints, (complaints not convictions) the state would have the authority to remove all state funding for this offense.

..from Ars Technica

“Many questions remain unanswered about the extent to which piracy occurs on college campuses. The MPAA recently retracted the outrageously inflated college piracy statistics that it published after a 2005 study. Despite the fact that the MPAA’s numbers were egregiously inaccurate, the study has been repeatedly cited by lawmakers. As we have pointed out in the past, it isn’t clear that every download necessarily constitutes a lost sale. If the raman stereotype is to be believed, the average college student doesn’t exactly have a lot of extra money for buying movies.

Universities understandably complain about the high costs of acquiring and operating network analysis tools. In an attempt to make it easier for schools to shoulder the burden of antipiracy enforcement efforts, the MPAA created a toolkit last year that aimed to automate much of the process. The toolkit, however, was built using open source software and failed to comply with software’s license. After the MPAA refused to take down the software and comply with copyright law, one of the developers sent a DMCA takedown notice to the organization’s Internet service provider. The MPAA claimed that it would make the toolkit available again after resolving the copyright issues, but still hasn’t done so.”