pirates enter court again

No, this is not about the requested appeal. This goes way beyond appeal. It seems the judge, presiding the now already famous trial of four men maintaining The Pirate Bay, may have a certain bias. Being apparently an active member of the Swedish copyright lobby it takes not much effort to find a possible conflict [...]

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craeybeast?

Childish but funny

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HUMOR

I couldn’t resist this one. Posted also here

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election is no series of tubes

Six term and lifelong Alaskan senator Ted “The internet is a series of tubes” Stevens finally lost his position as a senator. Despite an earlier seven charge conviction of fraud he maintained his election position and refused to back down. That, along with the fact that even Sarah “Rambo” Palin didn’t support him either seems [...]

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my fat pipes ?

This is what the ISPs will face in the near future: Their precious IPTV model turned upside down! Now youtube starts to introduce high quality/resolution video, now state television broadcasters use bittorrent to multicast episodes of popular shows (Norway, Canada, …) and some deploy their own player (BBC’s iPlayer), the strain on ISPs raises. Not [...]

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younison

In the wake of all internet succes some artist recently got, there is now a platform for all musicians to unite and break the stalemate current semi-criminal-but-governement-supported organisations like SABAM hold on copyright, rights collection and distribution. The campaign is supported by a youtube video featuring Mr. Tim Van Hamel. (Via Clo)

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microsoft still deemed monopoly

Yesterday judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended with two more years to oversight of Microsoft due to its non-compliance to the 2002 settlement on anti-trust charges. While the filing states originally asked for oversight untill 2012, the judge leaves open the option to extend it beyond 2009. (via The Register)

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your revolution will be televised

As Michael Franti already sang about with his Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: your revolution will be televised. Indeed today when I switched on the news, I got to see the ongoing events in Pakistan. Apparently the president Musharraf suspended (highly contested by the supreme court) the Pakistani constitution and declared a state of emergency. Off [...]

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oops-a-daisy !

I do sincerely hope this was an accident. Here’s a whoops with a capital W. … But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the [...]

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Boing Boing TV

As of today you can also enjoy Boing Boing in online TV format. They promise us small TV chunks every workday. First one can be found here.

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(w)hacked

Following the leaking of 700mb of internal mails of the Media Defender company, the people at the Pirate Bay started to sift through them. They found out that MD was actively sabotaging their trackers and filed complaint with the Swedish police against pretty much every music label registered in Sweden. Here is what they have [...]

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again liquids on airplanes in EU ?

A reader of BoingBoing in this post reacted with possible good news. A request is raised in the European parliament to lift the ban on liquids on airplanes. Finally some common sense? The House adopted a resolution with 464 votes in favour, 158 against and 70 abstentions on the restrictions imposed by the EU on [...]

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irate ?

Something to ponder about!

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sci-fi ?

The Belgian judiciary system is bent on dragging The Church of Scientology in court. After serious investigations the complaints are: extortion, unlawful medical practices, abuse of thrust, breach of privacy and a series of other notions. Not only the Belgian chapter is under investigation, also the Brussels based European headquarter is under fire of the [...]

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copy right

In a simple drawing Erik J. Heels explains how US copyright works. An element of surprise for a lot of people might be where he explains that there is also non-controlled use of copyrighted work. This means some use cannot be regulated with the current copyright laws in place. Lots of copyrightholders or their representing [...]

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