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Happy Birthday, William Shatner – Boing Boing

March 23, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Actor William Shatner celebrates his 81st birthday today. He is best known for his role in the Star Trek television series and films, but has had a long and wildly varied career that… continues to… boldly go where no man has gone before, one might say.

Captain James T. Kirk was a constant presence in my home, growing up—my dad was a huge Trekkie. I think it’s fair to guess that many Boing Boing readers also consider this character, and Shatner’s broader body of work, a formative part of their lives as nerds.

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Canada’s Parliament summons Anonymous to testify – Boing Boing

March 12, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Idlepigeon sez, “Canada’s government has moved to call Anonyomous to testify before the House Affairs Comitte, over threats made to a minister who’s been pushing to pass Bill C30—online surveillance legislation. In this very funny piece from the Globe and Mail‘s Tabatha Southey, the entire Internet shows up to testify.”

Anonymous is so nebulous that for the federal government to call Anonymous to testify is almost to call the Internet itself – something the government may regret.

“I’d to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak today,” the first witness might say. “The threats against the minister are grave and on the advice of my consul, Mr. Fry, I’d just like to assure the minister that I … am never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna … ”

When political hacks subpoena online hackers, look out for :-(

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The Pirate Bay Issues Press Release in wake of SOPA/PIPA

January 19, 2012 / admin / No comments 
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.  There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.


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Canadian Parliament: a notorious pirate marketplace – Boing Boing

					
				

					January 4, 2012 /
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The IP addresses assigned to the Canadian Parliament have been implicated in several copyright-violating BitTorrent downloads. The 192.197.82.0 – 192.197.82.255 IP block was seen to be in BitTorrent swarms for movies, Windows cracks, Adobe Premiere, ripped CDs, and many other files. The IP records were retrieved from YouHaveDownloaded, a Russian database of IP addresses seen in copyright-infringing swarm. Other YouHaveDownloaded queries have yielded evidence of illegal downloading at the RIAA, the official residence of Nicholas Sarkozy, the Department of Homeland Security, and several MPAA member companies.




“It’s pretty funny, given that this very same group of people is working on harsher copyright law with Bill C-11, ” says former Pirate Party Candidate for Vancouver Centre Travis McCrea, “It just highlights how absurd and unenforceable this copyright monopoly is. Just as in the Hurt Locker lawsuit, we can tell where the files were downloaded but it is impossible to tell which individual is responsible.”




PRESS RELEASE: Copyright Infringement in Canadian Parliament


					

									

				
				

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