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LifestreamGood times … score one for the free world. Shouldn’t have flown so close to the sun now should you.
The unpopularity of the United States has IT users in foreign countries happy to use open-source software, Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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Boing Boing: In the age of ebooks, you don’t own your library. It is an argument that ought to be hardwired into the mind of every copyfighter. Simply because the idea of property rights is one of the driving notions behind new and increasingly out-of-control IP legislation. But as it turns out, IP in practical […]
Old news but nevertheless interesting. More and more artists are turning against the copyright regime. Here is a recent example of a modern record label, Alphabasic (via Rlslog) trying to go with the flow instead of fighting the current.
If you really like ‘The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life’ […] show your support without […]
In a surprising turn of events, the tracker (though not the site itself) seems to be responding again.
The frontend of Demonoid is still hosted in the US, together with the popular Subdemon forums. Interestingly, the tracker - which has been offline for months - is now hosted in Malaysia, and has started to respond […]
Joseph Stiglitz on Scrooge and intellectual property rights and why the IP regime that the US has spearheaded is not only a threat to our lives and wellbeing but also economically unsound.
At Christmas, we traditionally retell Dickens’s story of Scrooge, who cared more for money than for his fellow human beings. What would we think […]
Your guide to electronic freedom and bad ISPs. Or in other words, what does the US, Canada, China, Russia, UK, Pakistan, France, Malaysia, Chile, Argentina and a number of other repressive regimes have in common?
As suspected, AllofMP3 became the pivotal case in the WTO accession negotiations. WTO membership may seem like a good idea right now, but it will turn out to be one of the worst decisions Russia has ever made — on the same level as allowing its natural riches to be commandeered by foreign backed robber […]
Imagine a future where Intel decides what software its processors will allow you to execute, what OS you will run. Or at the very least that your movies and music have all passed MPAA / RIAA gestapo checkpoints. All cleverly concealed and wrapped in the fight against computer viruses. It does sound awfully familiar doesn’t […]
What do you know. Another example of unfair trade and intellectual piracy by an American transnational. Where is that invisible hand when you really need it?
Starbucks, the giant US coffee chain, has used its muscle to block an attempt by Ethiopia’s farmers to copyright their most famous coffee bean types, denying them potential earnings of […]
Swedish inventor Håkan Lans just got snubbed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (HAKAN LANS v. GATEWAY 2000, INC., ET AL., HAKAN LANS v. DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION, UNIBOARD AKTIEBOLAG v. ACER AMERICA CORP., ET AL.).
The background can be found here.
As such, Lans is still stuck with all attorneys’ fees, contrary […]
