Get ’doze ’phones Those Google people really don’t like Iphones.
Most interesting find of the night.
Thanks Internet, you have delivered yet again.
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What’s new in the public domain Another fabulous website. Nicely designed, too, with a suitably retro look—I love the irony of having this style on the web.
The goal of CISPA is to completely eliminate any sort of privacy online. It really is a Big Brother bill, and that isn’t hyperbole.
CISPA is orders of magnitude worse than SOPA/PIPA. We need to mobilize like we did before, and stop this.
Agreed. And from what I’ve read, not too many people know about this.
Next step: control over the internet This graphic sums up CISPA pretty well.
Source: wilwheaton
A more correct analogy would be someone that takes left over food from restaurants and gives it to the poor. The intended audience are no source of income to the movie industry. The Kabul Best Buy does not carry the latest movie last time I checked, nor are the soldiers likely to see this stuff on the silver screen. They will not be “missed” by other intended users like your pipe organs were. No, movies are not required sustenance like food, but if it helps a few of the soldiers feel as if they are appreciated or gives hope to some of them for returning to a normal life, it will be worth the price.
What will the internet be like after SOPA? Imagine a library filled with nothing but fliers, catalogues, and calling cards. That will be the internet in a nutshell. If content holders go crazy with copyright complaints, the only websites left will be sites belonging to companies with teams of lawyers, or advertising sites, or personal or organizational sites made by people who know how to build non-copyright infringing sites, none of which will have comment sections. In other words, it will be boring.
UK: you are a terrorist if you pirate stuff Britain is more f***ed up than I thought. Almost as bad as a New Zealand politician thinking that the internet is Skynet. We can, of course, trace all of it back to US entertainment industry lobbyists.
Posted with permission from Josué Pereira
Copyright at the 5,000 What would Jesus think about file-sharing?
Judge decimates BitTorrent lawsuit with common sense ruling | TorrentFreak
One of the few people in position who can see past the BS. I haven’t looked into the court yet and how persuasive a precedent this is. What I do know is that the pre-August 2011 copyright régime worked here, and works in the US, and the new one will be weakened, if ever so slightly, by common-sense judgements such as this.
Happy three strikes day, New Zealand!
If any of you had the extreme misfortune to watch the live parliamentary session reading/ringing in the “3 strikes” copyright infringement/guilt upon accusation law change, then (like me) you were probably vacillating between incredulity at our elected official’s lack of clue about the internet…
Every internet user needs to read this post in full to understand their rights. New Zealand has entered a dark age for civil liberties.
You might be legal in your own country, but the US will still try to extradite you
This young chap, Richard O’Dwyer, has broken no laws in the UK. But it appears that the US isn’t respectful of other people’s sovereignty, even its allies. So it’s trying to extradite him for allegedly breaking US law even though he’s a Brit and the alleged offence occurred on UK soil on UK web servers.
If Americans wonder why they get a hard time overseas, this is a prime example: the disdain their government gives to other nation’s rights and legal systems. It’s one of many examples, sadly, and treaties are often signed giving the US disproportionate power over the other nation. However, I know most everyday Americans would be appalled at this news, too—this news actually was published on a US site, and I’m sure they would not want their tax dollars going down the hole to prosecute a 23-year-old in what can best be described as an uncertain case. In fact, I’m not even sure he’s broken US law.
I agree with the overall tone of the article and its conclusion. There are far better cases for US prosecutors to pursue in its own territory, for starters.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
