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William Jacobson digs into the background and finds weird and wonderful things. And Stacy has fun with initials.
And as it continues the Blogfather Glenn Reynolds in addition to scooping Little Miss Attila shows that like Pepperidge Farm, the internet remembers.
I haven’t heard anyone mimic my Air America take yet, but we could always make book on it. It all depends on how much money Soros and company want to spend to keep it alive.
I’ve been drafted for some tech support but that’s what being DaTechGuy is all about.
I suspect this issue is a youtube issue but I was able to provide a work around, but I’ll keep tinkering.
Tim Blair reminds us that everything costs something, in this case an upload costs 1.6 million:
A MAN who bragged about illegally uploading a Super Mario Bros computer game to the internet yesterday agreed to pay manufacturer Nintendo $1.6 million in a landmark anti-piracy court settlement.
James Burt, 24, agreed to pay $1.5 million in damages plus $100,000 in court costs to the gaming giant behind the hugely popular Wii game.
The Laws are on the books and companies are going to use their lawyers to make sure they are enforced. Until and unless they are changed ask yourself, is it worth it?
When you put the need to play a video game next to say Nujood and woman under Islam it really puts things in perspective doesn’t it?
And unlike Nujood, James did this to himself.
I’d hit him with a nelson but he’s going to be paying for this literally for the rest of his life, so I’ll spare him than and suggest we don’t repeat his mistake.
They attack anything that facilitates the uncensored passing of information among people they rule:
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has announced that he now considers Twitter messages and social networking as terrorist threats. He is quoted in this Spanish-language news report as calling for more state control over the internet.
via who else but Glenn.
Meanwhile on the China Google front my favorite Free Speech Diva continues to speak up concerning China. And she describers her dream speech on the subject:
My dream speech would be about how the Internet poses a challenge to all governments and most companies (except those companies like Google whose business is built around that challenge). I would call on all governments to work together with citizens, companies and each other to build a globally interconnected, free and open network that enhances the lives of everybody on the planet, enables commerce and innovation by big and small players alike, makes everybody richer and freer, and improves all governments’ relations with their citizens by making government more transparent, efficient, and thus more credible and legitimate.
I would quote Benjamin Franklin, who wrote in 1759: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
The speech would remind us all that all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that American democracy was built on this assumption. The Internet empowers governments and law enforcement agencies as well as citizens, upstart candidates, and dissidents.
Somebody ought to write a book about that. If you care about free speech then you should be reading Rebecca MacKinnon.
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