Delicious bookmark site overhauled and renamed. It does seem to run faster now. I don't use delicious as much as I used to these days. I use Google for sharing items and for my own personal online bookmarks.
Raising a global stink. Activists target methane gas from cows. I think these idiots should have to battle it out in an area to the death with PETA. Honestly, I'm not saying doing some stuff to help out the environment a bit is bad at all. That having been said, I'm just getting sick of the "green" buzzword. Also tiresome is some of the general ridiculousness of these people. The whole, "Think of the world your children and your children's children will inherit," mantra has zero effect on me. Why? I'm not having kids (unless something drastically changes my mind) and I don't give a shit about your kids or people generations from now when I'm dead. Just to spite these fuckers I'm going to eat a bunch of burgers and fart like a cow.
Band leaks track to BitTorrent, blames pirates. I guess nobody thought to cover their tracks on this one. I see the benefit of leaking the track hoping it would generate some excitement for the track. I fail to see how complaining about "somebody" leaking it is a smart idea. I mean, knocking filesharing hasn't done Metallica or Prince any favors in terms of people's attitude towards those artists. If anything, they've alienated people.
Travis defends fan from IFPI threats. Nice to see a band that realizes the promotional benefits of filesharing. This story also illustrates exactly why the music industry shouldn't be able to be the ones sending out warnings without any sort of oversight.
Citizens spy on Big Brother. Who's watching the watchmen? Well I guess more and more regular people. Good. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Defendant to RIAA: 428,571 times actual damages is unconstitutional. Well, those over-inflated "damages" are their primary source of revenue these days.
UK politicians demand YouTube vet content to 'protect the children'. You'd think that idiot criminals who get on YouTube to brag about their exploits would be a prosecutor's wet dream. I mean, how better to track these scumbags down?
Here's a great example of what I was just saying: New York man arrested for YouTube baby food threat. Some loon decides he wants to poison baby foot, brags about it on YouTube and they haul him in. If he meant it, great, he's nabbed. If it was a hoax or a prank, then he deserves the legal scare for not being smart enough to put up a disclaimer that it was a gag or parody on the videos.
Yo FCC! Are you doing anything about metered broadband? It doesn't seem like it because bandwidth caps keep getting lower and lower.
Video Downloads Make Up A Third Of All XBL Transactions. I wonder what those lower bandwidth caps that the ISPs are licking their chops over will do to things like HD video downloads. This sort of thing is just the exact sort of legal high bandwidth usage that people should be pointing to whenever anybody claims that the only people who use up hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth each month are pirating things.
Of course, a sizable portion of these bandwidth cutbacks are probably due to pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Less bandwidth means less downloads. EFF - New US Copyright Enforcement Proposal and ACTA could be a catastrophe. There's also the whole, "charge 'em more, give 'em less," philosophy of a lot of ISPs.
OP-ED: Why bandwidth is the oil of the information economy. The problem is, in most areas that have broadband, the broadband is a monopoly. No real competition. That's because of deals made between the telcos or cable companies and the municipalities. It's not like if you're getting broadband that you're unhappy with you can jump to another service with the equivilent speed, etc.
Raising a global stink. Activists target methane gas from cows. I think these idiots should have to battle it out in an area to the death with PETA. Honestly, I'm not saying doing some stuff to help out the environment a bit is bad at all. That having been said, I'm just getting sick of the "green" buzzword. Also tiresome is some of the general ridiculousness of these people. The whole, "Think of the world your children and your children's children will inherit," mantra has zero effect on me. Why? I'm not having kids (unless something drastically changes my mind) and I don't give a shit about your kids or people generations from now when I'm dead. Just to spite these fuckers I'm going to eat a bunch of burgers and fart like a cow.
Band leaks track to BitTorrent, blames pirates. I guess nobody thought to cover their tracks on this one. I see the benefit of leaking the track hoping it would generate some excitement for the track. I fail to see how complaining about "somebody" leaking it is a smart idea. I mean, knocking filesharing hasn't done Metallica or Prince any favors in terms of people's attitude towards those artists. If anything, they've alienated people.
Travis defends fan from IFPI threats. Nice to see a band that realizes the promotional benefits of filesharing. This story also illustrates exactly why the music industry shouldn't be able to be the ones sending out warnings without any sort of oversight.
Citizens spy on Big Brother. Who's watching the watchmen? Well I guess more and more regular people. Good. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Defendant to RIAA: 428,571 times actual damages is unconstitutional. Well, those over-inflated "damages" are their primary source of revenue these days.
UK politicians demand YouTube vet content to 'protect the children'. You'd think that idiot criminals who get on YouTube to brag about their exploits would be a prosecutor's wet dream. I mean, how better to track these scumbags down?
Here's a great example of what I was just saying: New York man arrested for YouTube baby food threat. Some loon decides he wants to poison baby foot, brags about it on YouTube and they haul him in. If he meant it, great, he's nabbed. If it was a hoax or a prank, then he deserves the legal scare for not being smart enough to put up a disclaimer that it was a gag or parody on the videos.
Yo FCC! Are you doing anything about metered broadband? It doesn't seem like it because bandwidth caps keep getting lower and lower.
Video Downloads Make Up A Third Of All XBL Transactions. I wonder what those lower bandwidth caps that the ISPs are licking their chops over will do to things like HD video downloads. This sort of thing is just the exact sort of legal high bandwidth usage that people should be pointing to whenever anybody claims that the only people who use up hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth each month are pirating things.
Of course, a sizable portion of these bandwidth cutbacks are probably due to pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Less bandwidth means less downloads. EFF - New US Copyright Enforcement Proposal and ACTA could be a catastrophe. There's also the whole, "charge 'em more, give 'em less," philosophy of a lot of ISPs.
OP-ED: Why bandwidth is the oil of the information economy. The problem is, in most areas that have broadband, the broadband is a monopoly. No real competition. That's because of deals made between the telcos or cable companies and the municipalities. It's not like if you're getting broadband that you're unhappy with you can jump to another service with the equivilent speed, etc.
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