John Dvorak
Let me tell you something. You do not want youth politicizing. Not that the kids shouldn’t take part in politics. You just don’t want to get them all jacked up over an issue like this. There are lots of them. They often have a lot of spare time. En masse they can ruin things […]
Can’t get enough of this. Though WAPO hinted pretty much the same thing a week ago, a recently unearthed fax sort of confirms the suspicion. Boing Boing notes
This appears to be a PDF of the fax that the MPAA’s John G. Malcolm sent to the Swedish Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice demanding […]
Will they ever stop using the word “piracy” in official documents? Anyway, this is officially confirming what we already knew. The US lets it be known that they will apply pressure to aid its copyright pimps abroad (WAPO via /.). What that will amount to in the long run is uncertain. For now, we’re seeing […]
AFP via Engadget. Hopefully the pressure building among European legislators will force Apple to reconsider its business model to some degree and deal a blow to DRM in general.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.
The three Scandinavian countries […]
Taking nastygrams to an entirely new level. One can’t help but smirk at the letter that was sent to Boing Boing
I just opened a letter sent to Boing Boing from some fools at Baker & McKenzie LLP in London.
The letter states that their client, Infront Sports & Media, “anticipates the possibility of unauthorized streaming and […]
Hot on the heels of the alleged US directed takedown of The Pirate Bay comes another interesting case of peculiar priorities and outright blackmail. New York Times:
So great is the official level of concern about AllofMP3 that American trade negotiators darkly warned that the Web site could jeopardize Russia’s long-sought entry into the World Trade […]
So, who is sinking who now, bitch? The Pirate Bay is back online, with a new cocky logotype (and name). The site is slow as hell and running out of database sockets fast though. Not surprising considering it is on the front page of every major internet news outlet and that it is operating on […]
The Pirate Bay Bittorrent tracker servers have been seized. The Pirate Bay hosting company (PRQ) was stormed around noon today local time. And that is pretty much all we know so far. Go read the speculation over at Slashdot but for the record it does not seem to be a hoax despite the uncanny timing. […]
Wal-Mart and SmileyWorld duke it out for total smiley world domination.
Epson has settled with several 3rd party suppliers in the UK, Germany and the U.S, forcing them to cease the online sale of ink cartridge refills. Apparently, printer manufacturers are fond of their business model which amounts to hiding the costs, selling cheap printers and hiking ink refill prices. Once again, the system is protecting […]
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