Monday, June 4, 2007

Russia tries to guard AK-47 idea


Since it was copyrighted in 1999, there has been no active enforcement ceasing the illegal manufacture of AK-47s, the weapon of choice of insurgent groups around the world. But now, there is.

Guitartabs.com gets shut down

The RIAA has been trying for a while, and now they have succeeded to shut down guitartabs.com. This move essentially says that not only are recordings of music owned, but the melodies themselves are also owned. Hopefully nobody will start enforcing what you can whistle, or I'm SCREWED!