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LifestreamAs reported by Boing Boing, Jorge Cortell was kicked out of his university and humiliated for holding a lecture on P2P and intellectual property, questioning the powers that be.
I have been teaching “Intellectual Property” (although I dislike the term) among other subjects at a Masters Degree in the Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV (Spain) for […]
Archive for May, 2005
Swedish energy company Vattenfall is to build the world’s first pilot plant for a coal-fired power station which does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“The risks associated with climate change require decisive action on the part of business and industry,” said the company’s president and CEO, Lars G. Josefsson.
The plant, part of a project […]
The annual show that everyone loves to hate is back once more.
In 2005, our beloved contest celebrates its 50th anniversary. Thanks to Ruslana and her Wild dances, Ukraine has the honour to organise the 2005 contest, which will take place in the country’s capital, kyiv.
More countries then ever will participate to the Eurovision Song Contest. […]
Well at least that was enjoyable. The dialogue as well as many acting performances were still quirky. And emotionally, many things fell flat. But what the hell. At least it worked this time around. Sort of.
Hopefully Star Wars will continue to branch out into games and a TV series like planned. There is no shortage […]
That was pretty fast and I’m sure this will hit big with mainstream media once they find out. Actually the date on Pirate Bay indicates 13th of May so it’s almost a week old but it seems to have caught on only this last day or so and now sports about 10.000 clients. Seems like […]
The BSA is bullshitting us again in their report for 2004.
Something that caught my eye, other than Sweden’s dismally “good” placement near the top of the list, was the comment made over Venezuela in the report:
In Venezuela, piracy rose seven percentage points over the previous year to 79 percent. While PC shipments doubled in 2004, […]
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland top the first ever study that attempts to quantify the size of the gender gap, as the states with the smallest divide between women and men.
The Forum has undertaken this study to facilitate the work of governments, aid agencies and NGOs by providing a benchmarking tool to assess the […]
Just a fair warning … if you see this game, run the other way. The idea behind the game is great but the execution is just awful.
Gamer’s Hell sums it up nicely …
A forum member on Dungeon Lord’s official website posted a subject “I have only one suggestion for the game” that when clicked on […]
In a press release issued today, the MPAA has filed lawsuits against six (6) independent BitTorrent indexing sites. This move comes as little surprise, as many of the MPAA’s members also hold considerable interest in TV production as well. In addition, according to a recent survey by Envisional, TV piracy (especially on BitTorrent) has increased […]
“Star Trek” has come a long way since Capt. James T. Kirk first helmed the Starship Enterprise in the late 1960s. Decades later, “Star Trek” has become a bankable franchise with fans around the globe. But when “Star Trek: Enterprise” ends on May 13, 2005, television will be without a first-run “Trek” series for the […]
