Tag Archives: advocacy

$220K, the RIAA, and more

Now that Jaimme Thomas has decided to appeal against the verdict that held her liable to the tune of $220K in the lawsuit against RIAA, the old debate of Copyright laws, Digital Right Management and the RIAA itself have resurfaced. For starts, the case itself was resolved in a somewhat shady manner. The judge required

Female Archetypes

Archetypes are an often researched area of interest; the most notable researchers being Carl Jung and Joesph Campbell. In this post, I’d like to focus on female archetypes, specifically, female archetypes in mythology and folklore. Typically, the female archetypes reflect role and perception of women in the culture and age that the myth belong to

The first amendment is so antiquated — best to do away with it

A long long time ago the ‘founding fathers’ of USA wrote the shortest constitution in the world. Obviously a lot was missing from it and so they started making amendments to it. The notable ones being amendments to include individual rights. They are collectively referred to as the ‘Bill of Rights‘. The First Amendment in

Global blogger action day (I am one day late)

Yesterday was “Free Mojtaba and Arash Day”. Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran. They have been arrested for having criticized the Iranian govt. in their blogs. Here is my support to them. I dedicate this post to them, and their right to freedom of expression.