http://www.metafilter.com/tags/k5/rss tag posts with k5 Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:27:28 -0800 Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:27:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/31994/Rusty-gets-it-right <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/24/0502/96199">K5 membership</a> willl now require new users to be sponsered by current users. Rusty's implementing this system as a way to deal with trolls and crap flooders who have taken over K5 in recent months. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.31994 Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:27:28 -0800 Rusty K5 Kuro5hin Membership Sponsor tiamat http://www.metafilter.com/17372/ When stupid laws attack: <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1740256&mode=nocomment&tid=4">this article</a> points out that <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020520/tc_nm/media_cd_piracy_dc_1">the widely syndicated article</a> about thwarting the copy protection of sony's CDs is a direct violation of the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf">DMCA</a>. Will news directors at Reuters, Yahoo, and CNN be seeing fines and jail time soon? How many times does it have to be pointed out that the DMCA restricts free speech as it attempts to thwart piracy at any cost? (via <a href="http://kuro5hin.org/">k5</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.17372 Fri, 24 May 2002 10:19:31 -0800 laws copyright copyprotection sony cds dmca reuters yahoo cnn freespeech piracy k5 mathowie http://www.metafilter.com/15978/ <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/1/05035/09001">Metafilter taken over by kuo5hin?</a> April fool, everyone. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.15978 Mon, 01 Apr 2002 03:11:53 -0800 AprilFools Metafilter Kuo5hin k5 Cobbler