Three Good Things, and One Bad One

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All from the good folks over at BoingBoing:

  1. Sony ditches DRM CDs. After being stupidly lax on the whole MP3 front, this is sort of shocking. More shocking is their spin, which I’ll leave to BB.
  2. MSFT’s FAT shakedown ended by Patent Office. Redmond was trying to patent a file system format; USPO says no.
  3. EFF kicks Diebold’s Ass
    Diebold, the slimeballs whose faulty voting machines threaten the basis of US democracy, tried to silence its critics, a group of activists who were publishing leaked memos detailing the company’s malfeasance, by falsely claiming that they were violating Diebold’s copyright. Now a court has ruled that Diebold knowingly abused copyright and the DMCA when it sent nastygrams to the activists’ ISPs, and has awarded the activists damages and court costs.

And now one bad one: A St. Louis court has ruled in Blizzard’s favor and against the EFF in the “BNETD” case concerning open source game servers. Fair use? What’s that?

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