Doc writes about the latest boneheaded DMCA-related move. The issue: the recent ruling from the copyright office about rates for webcasting music will bankrupt many Internet radio stations, except (as Doc says) for "the huge corporations which never gave a shit about it anyway." What I find interesting is the KEXP stream is still on (though they're doing fundraising right now).

I'm in pretty bad shape this morning for no apparent reason. I didn't sleep at all last night, I couldn't breathe well this morning, and I think I'm feverish. So naturally I decided to go to school. After all, what fun is being sick if you can't get anyone else sick with you? :(

It's been a rough morning otherwise too. On the way to the T, I saw the wings of a pigeon, feathers intact but separated from their owner, lying on the sidewalk. And I got a lovely email from an old college friend tipping me off about one of our stranger classmates' arrest record. The story gave me another visual I didn't really need. Unfortunate kid, this Ilya. He was all of 14 when he started at Virginia, and apparently had a few screws loose....