Here in Geneva I’m taking part in a discussion of whether the right to link to other websites should be guaranteed by international treaty. Suddenly I’m reminded of the classic scifi novel STAND ON ZANZIBAR, by John Brunner. One of Brunner’s characters, a self-consciously hip sociologist named Chad Mulligan, has written his […]

(Posted from Geneva, Switzerland, 10 am local time.)
The New York Times has published an odd, unfortunately named article, “Steal This Show,” that discusses homebrew personal-video-recording technologies such as MythTV as well as the distributed file-sharing technology known as BitTorrent. Let’s leave aside whether time-shifting television with an off-brand counterpart to TiVo is “stealing.” A […]