Yep, we have definitely jumped the shark here in meat-cyber-space. I mean, for reelz? Now beer bottle caps can be censored? Oy. And I thought liquor was
the official inebriate of the 2008 War, Inc. games…
Can I get a big WTF from the choir? So, the borders are shrinking, and I was thinking, does it really matter in the end? I’m sorry, I was digressing into a Eugene O’Neil style strange interlude. Of course, all that I speak of is sane and all makes sense.
Well, you don’t read this column to indulge my insane rambles. In fact, you probably don’t read this column at all. Achtung! List to follow.
- ‘Give It Away And Pray’ Isn’t A Business Model… But It Doesn’t Mean That ‘Free’ Doesn’t Work (I’m just keep repeating this point until you get it)
- Debunking The Faulty Premises Of The Pirate Bay-Criminalization Treaty (Class! Class? Wake Up!!!!!!!!)
Microsoft Gets Out Of Book Search, But Hands Tools Over To Libraries (Still debating this one) - How Software Patents’ Fuzzy Boundaries Create Unnecessary Litigation (Uh, duh!)
- Comics (Brain break)
- Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting (The big virtual middle finger)
Singapore Firm Claims Patent On Hyperlinked Images (Ahahahahahaha! Good luck collecting!) - California man successfully scams Google out of $8,225 (Office Space, thou art avenged!)
- Secrets stolen? No, just the intellectual property (Wah!)
Viking mole infiltrates Icelandic Mafiaa (I’m still putting Bjork and Tony Soprano together in my mind…) - Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 (Man, I hate those MediaDefender guys)
ALSO - Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? (Zoink!)
- Metallica Tries To Embrace The Online Musical Experience — Gets Halfway There
ALSO Fans Rip Metallica a New One (Is that embrace the way Microsoft ‘embraces’ a new technology?) - Viacom’s New Argument Against YouTube: Embedding Videos Removes Safe Harbors (Any port in a storm. Get it? Safe harbor? Storm? Yeah, yeah…)
- Viacom Nudges Some Premium Content Online, For Free (Baby steps, baby steps!)
Is vigilantism legal? MediaDefender takes out innocent Revision3.
Until next week: Run cloaked, share at least as much as you download and support your community. (Oh yeah, and would somebody snap and run amuck in the halls of the RIAA and the MPAA already?)
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I think the ‘Legal Weed’ bottle caps should be sold on eBay. Great way to fund his defense!
“Try Legal Weed,” the caps joke.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau says those three little words allude to marijuana use.”
Ugh. It’s a issue so stupid as to be mind boggling.
My mind boggled. Seriously – when did humor become a crime?
Around December 2000, in Florida.
Surrender your Pitbull!
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_568
“The Bill requires all owners to surrender their “pit bulls” within 90 days of the effective date of the proposed law. The Bill provides that the dog warden “shall” euthanize all pit bulls within 10 days of their surrender.
In addition, a dog warden or other officer that has probable cause to believe that a dog is a “pit bull,” may apply for a search warrant. With a search warrant, an officer will have the authority to seize the dog and surrender the dog to the dog warden to be killed.”
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