January 26th, 2012
From Wired:
A government memo saying a railway was hacked in a targeted attack was incorrect, according to a spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads.
“There was no targeted computer-based attack on a railroad,” according to spokesman Holly Arthur. “The memo on which the story was based has numerous inaccuracies.”
Asked if ...
January 26th, 2012
This quote opens an op-ed titled "I Don't Want To Own Music, I Want To Listen To Music." (which is well worth a read):
"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse of centuries, have enabled man to be less ...
January 26th, 2012
From "Joint complaint of those affected by the closure of Megaupload service"
The FBI has caused incalculable damage, far in excess of the losses claimed by the content lobbies, in a fruitless attempt to prevent access to the media content hosted on Megaupload, some of which they claim to have been ...
January 24th, 2012
I've read through the Megaupload Indictment, and I'm not terribly impressed by the case presented by the U.S. government. Not when there are items like these to be found throughout it:
In approximately April 2006, members of the Mega Conspiracy copied videos directly from Youtube.com to make them available on Megavideo.com.
So? ...
January 24th, 2012
Now, it may seem like SOPA is the end game in a long fight over copyright, and the Internet, and it may seem like if we defeat SOPA, we'll be well on our way to securing the freedom of PCs and networks. But as I said at the beginning of ...
January 24th, 2012
...it can take years to build up, but can be instantly destroyed, with just one single, careless act.
January 22nd, 2012
From The Pirate Bay's press release about SOPA:
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 ...
January 21st, 2012
First, here's a great quote, from a thoughtful blog post that questions the wisdom of letting Hollywood's "legal arm" dictate to the justice system:
Surely Hollywood wouldn’t try to suspend due process, would they? Or create a parallel enforcement system? Or take away citizen recourse if they were unfairly silenced? They ...