Extra Future

Day: July 26, 2010

  • U.S. Copyright Office Declares Some Forms of DRM Circumvention Legal

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    Phil Nelson
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    [This is good news][link], and a big step in getting consumers rights back over the things they own. [Here is the full ruling][full] (via Gruber). [Ars Technica has a more non-lawyer-friendly rundown of the changes][ars]. [full]: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ “U.S. Copyright Office – Anticircumvention Rulemaking” [link]: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26 “EFF Press Release” [ars]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars “Apple loses big in DRM…

  • 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5’s Canvas Tag

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A heck of a demo to start off your monday morning.][link] Comes in an LGPL 3 package of C++ and JS code. [link]: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5 “Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 | EffectGames.com”