Justin Mason: Links for 2012-03-03

Photo Tampering throughout History : dating back to 1860: ‘This nearly iconic portrait (in the form of a lithograph) of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body.’ I had no idea of many of these
(tags: tampering photos pictures images photoshop doctoring history)

Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice | Techdirt : ‘our page clearly is not infringing. This is a 100% bogus DMCA takedown — something we only discovered by complete accident over a month later — hiding one of our key articles in an important fight about abusing copyright law to take down free speech. Seems like a perfect example of how copyright can be — and is — abused to suppress free speech.’
(tags: techdirt dmca copyright sopa sopaireland armovore dirty-tricks)

jm_links on Twitter : With any luck, ifttt.com will be gatewaying the links from http://pinboard.in/u:jm/ to this Twitter feed…
(tags: twitter ifttt pinboard links feed)

Adrian Weckler with “6 reasons why Irish SOPA may not work” : All spot on. ‘Despite all this, the government – through Minister Sherlock – has passed this statutory instrument. In all likelihood, Sherlock’s department had decided to do it a long time ago (probably before the last election), in a (now failed) effort to get the music companies off its back. It’s a shame that Sherlock has gone along with this so easily: he is taking all the flak. It’s also not that common to see a government determined to pass new law that it knows – or strongly suspects – won’t work.’
(tags: adrian-weckler law ireland piracy copyright sopaireland)