Robot Overlordz

On this episode of Robot Overlordz, Mike and Matt continue talking about how copyright as an issue is affecting society. Join us and find out more about this issue that is going to impact your future...

Show notes are below.  You can download the episode here...

Matt & Mike's Recommended Reading:

Against Perpetual Copyright from Larry Lessig

The Case Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) from Cory Doctorow

Swiss Study on Downloading Impacts on Market for Copyrighted Materials from BoingBoing

EA banning customers with DRM also from BoingBoing

Episode 7 - Caring About Copyright

On this episode of Robot Overlordz, Mike and Matt take on the SOPA/ProtectIP bills now before Congress. Could this destroy the Internet as we know it? Join us and find out...

Show notes are below.  You can download the episode here...

Matt & Mike's Sources about SOPA:

Congress Censors the Internet (National Review Online)

How Congress and the Entertainment Industry Plan to Kill the Internet and How Citizens, Reddit Users, and a Few Senators Are Fighting Back (Forbes)

A Step By Step Debunking Of US Chamber Of Commerce's Dishonest Stats About 'Rogue Sites' (TechDirt)

Defending SOPA (Lamar Smith, sponsor of SOPA - National Review Online)

The Government Wants to Kill the Internet - Watch MoreFunny Videos

Other Resources:

Doug Rushkoff, article on why the Internet is vulnerable to censorship

ChillingEffects.org, a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics

OR Senator Ron Wyden's Stop Censorship site, if you want your name read in the House of Representatives

Episode 6 - Kill The Internet?!?