I am becoming quite the activist (or that dude who yells a lot from the back of the room) when it comes to online threats.
Apparently, one of the dudes in charge of ACTA walked off the job today and denounced the whole thing…
I don’t know if you like the direction they are taking it but I love it. Snicker.
Pirates laugh and scoff at your attempts to quell their numbers. Of course, that may be only in the movies.Mike Loukides originally shared this post:New post on O’Reilly Radar: On pirates and piracy. (Already made it to + in a couple of streams, but I may as well add it to my own). http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/on-pirates-and-piracy.htmlOn pirates and piracy - O’Reilly RadarMike Loukides:
This is a great conversation about what piracy is. He points out that the real pirates are the media companies that would love nothing more than to crush the Internet and control it like they have tried to do for years - ever since the creation of the VCR.
Yes. Pulling out the old bands today.
Die, SOPA, DIE! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16655272Congress halts anti-piracy billsThe US House of Representatives and Senate postpone two anti-online piracy bills, Pipa and Sopa, days after widespread web protests.
Yay! There may be some REAL debate about how to protect intellectual property and not destroy the Internet in the process in the name of over-zealous copyright crazies.
Really? REALLY? Who paid off these judges?
There has been some talk about the holidays being over and I think it is not true. My dad had a knee replacement and I learned about the value of doing things slowly for a change.
