Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been pressing states to enact new legislation aimed at criminalizing the possession of what they call "unlawful communication and access devices." These measures represent an unprecedented attack on the rights of technologists, hobbyists, tinkerers and the public at large. In essence, these proposals would allow "communication service providers" to restrict what you can connect to your Internet connection or cable or satellite television lines.
These measures represent a stealth effort to dramatically expand the reach of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has already put fair use, innovation, free speech and competition in peril since being enacted in 1998.
I've been hearing the country Qatar's name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage -- from "gutter", "cutter" and "gatter" to "guitar" (or maybe it was "gitter")(!) -- I started to wonder just how the heck it's supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)...
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