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Sentor Ted Stevens’ Net Neutrality Speech has been immortalised in song!
Hear it here.
*UPDATE* Above link wasn’t working as of 17/07/06.
Here’s an alternative link.
Woohoo!
FLAC and Vorbis makes a welcome return to iTunes thanks to the lovely people at xiph.org. Hopefully this will remove the need to run 3rd party apps to listen to music encoded in these open formats.
Get it here.
*UPDATE* - Alas, still no support for native FLAC file format. Only Ogg FLAC, but at least it’s a step in the right directon.
We all know what Tetris is, what it looks like, etc.
But if you had to describe it to someone, what would you say?
Having followed a link from Daring Fireball to a Cease and Desist letter sent to the makers of Quinn, an OS X version of Tetris, I believe the question has been undeniably answered…….
Specifically, the copyrighted features of the Tetris® game include, without limitation, downward, lateral and rotating movements of the differently orientated four-brick playing pieces, as well as the shape and appearance of the four-brick playing pieces, including the configuration of the four-brick combinations comprising the playing pieces.
Oh right……..
Additional copyrighted features include, without limitation: the scoring features, the feature displaying the next four-brick playing piece that will fall down the playing field matrix, the disappearance of any completed horizontal row, the subsequent consolidation of the playing pieces remaining in the playing field as a result of the downward shift into the space vacated by the disappearing row.
Ahuh.
Further, the makeup of the playing field itself, i.e., the vertical matrix, higher than it is wide, with a base of ten individual “bricks” per horizontal row, and generally twenty individual “bricks” per vertical line, is also copyrightable expression.
Sounds great! Where can I get this awesome game?
Oh, I can’t because the makers have had to “cease display, distribution, publication or offering of the ‘Tetris’ game in question”.
Lame.
It’s a great version of a great game. Let’s hope Simon and Chris can find a way to fight this.
*UPDATE* - The game is still available to download here. Get it while you can.
