Sam Srauy

Oakland University Dept. of Communication and Journalism

srauy@oakland.edu

Sony PS3 users’ gotta brand new license— and it sucks.

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I know that lots of people have lots to say about this, so I’ll give a brief introduction. Sony Playstation Network and its associated online services released an update to the Terms of Service which explicitly states that users must agree to give up their right to sue and be a part of a class (as […]

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Lodsys, “Patent trolls,” and Free Culture, or, Was the Web really ever emancipatory?

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So, I know I’m using emancipation very loosely here. Saying emancipation begs the question:  Emancipation from what?  I’m trying to cheekily hark back to early ideas of the Internet as a space that can emancipate us from mass culture by making us all producers and consumers of cultural products.  Nowadays, most of us accept that the cultural production […]

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