Techdirt’s Mike Masnick Rocks !
Been following TechDirt for a few years now, and I believe he is square on the money on this one !
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick has followed the twists and turns of the digital music debate for more than a decade, offering some of the most prescient and lucid information and arguments on the topic anywhere. Today he tackles growing calls for a voluntary music-licensing scheme, pushed most recently by Warner Music Group to universities, that would basically allow file sharing by having ISPs impose a surcharge on all users to be paid out to copyright holders. (A version of this has been done before with blank media like tape cassettes in some markets, including Canada, but this would be a massive expansion of the idea.)
TechDirt and its; republish on Wired
Really excited to see this getting picked up by Wired, for it puts the discussion one step closer to mainstream media, which in the end is where it needs to head to have more people engage in a public debate at large.
Gunman Kills 8 at Omaha Mall !
Something is starting to go terribly wrong in this country.
WTF !
NYTimes Extra Release
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy shopping mall Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his own life, police said. Five more people were wounded, two critically.
Shoppers and employees ran screaming through the mall and barricaded themselves in dressing rooms after hearing gunfire. The gunman was found dead on the third floor of the Von Maur department store.
Employees and shoppers at Von Maur said they huddled together inside the store and barricaded themselves in dressing rooms and other offices for at least half an hour while they heard dozens of shots.
Police received a call reporting a shooter about 1:45 p.m. and arrived six minutes later. Most of the victims were inside Von Maur, said Omaha Police spokeswoman Teresa Negron.
She said police believed the shooter used a rifle, and may have come to the mall in a vehicle. They believe so far that he had no accomplices.
Nebraska Medical Center spokeswoman Andrea McMaster said it had three victims from the mall shooting:
