Quoting the Crisis
21/05/2013
» Movie studios send fraudulent censorship demands over Pirate Bay documentary
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
You’ll remember last month’s news that Fox had sent fraudulent takedown notices regarding my novel Homeland. This is hardly an isolated incident: the studios routinely exhibit depraved indifference to the inaccuracies in their…
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» Congressional panel: Apple avoided billions in US taxes with global workarounds
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net
“Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts, a…
3 notes | posted at 08:34
19/05/2013
Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.netDo you remember the Associated Press’s 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license fees (for quotes as short as 12 words,…
5 notes | posted at 19:22
Patent lawyers: Help! The evil Makers won’t let us apply for bullshit 3D printing patents!
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.netTwo minor characters from my novel Makers have apparently come to life and written an article for 3D Printing Industry. These two people are patent lawyers for Finnegan IP law firm, Washington, DC, which I don’t recall making u…
2 notes | posted at 19:20
18/05/2013
» “Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?”
Stephen J. Dubner, freakonomics.com
An interesting article on the Harvard Business Review blog, by Justin Fox, on a topic that most investors already have a strong feeling (or should I say “bias”?) about. It may not, therefore, change anyone’s mind — but the fascinatin…
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12/05/2013
California Attorney General Sues JP Morgan Over Debt Collection Abuses, Including Sewer Service, Robosigning
Yves Smith, nakedcapitalism.comCalifornia Attorney General Kamala Harris is on a roll. There’s been a fair bit of media coverage about abusive debt collection practices, particularly in credit cards, but at least until Harris filed a suit on Thursday against bank miscreant JP…
4 notes | posted at 23:11
» Bill Black: Brown-Vitter Will Not and Cannot Work but it is Criminogenic
Yves Smith, nakedcapitalism.com
Yves here. Like Black, I see Brown-Vitter as well-intended but seriously flawed. One of my big concerns is that it does not deal with the real driver of systemic risk, which is tight coupling. Per Richard Bookstaber, our financial system is “tight…
posted at 22:59
» Bernanke: Monitoring the Financial System
Barry Ritholtz, ritholtz.com
Monitoring the Financial System
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois May 10, 2013 We are now more than four years beyond …
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