Has anyone else noticed that so much of the last few months has involved a lot of signal boosting? Th world is getting seriously fucked up.

Originally posted by mrshamill at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
Needs to be here on DW too. (What the FUCKITY FUCK??)

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Originally posted by obstinatrix at To UK Flisties
Originally posted by de_nugis at To UK Flisties
(Taken most recently from amber1960, slightly adapted.)

If you're from the UK and you believe in freedom of speech and an uncensored interenet, you really need to sign this petition. There are others floating about, but that particular one is the best way to ensure that your ( Read more... )

Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues


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Okay, so Anonymous are retaliating for the shut down of Megaupload.

So far they have taken down:-

The Department of Justice

RIAA

MPAA

Universal Music Group

copyright.gov

justice.org

...and apparently the FBI is supposed to be next.

Sucks to be, well, all of those people.

Is it bad that I'm finding all of this completely amusing?

So, The FBI have raided and closed down Megaupload for alleged piracy. If you try and go there, you get no where.

From the NYT

From the BBC

Uh, remind me why they need to pass SOPA/PIPA again? Because apaprently foreign sites can be taken down without SOPA/PIPA

Originally posted by pinkfinity at Updated STOP SOPA/STOP PIPA post

You may have seen this image on the internet today:

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I have just been on Twitter and seen just how many articles and the like that I've got saved there. A good proportion of them are just being deleted, but there are some I'd like to share:-

1) A handy guide the relationship between the Internet and privacy

2) Why people pirate stuff3) This is an article about how stupidly easy it is to use the ( Read more... )

This has been a fantastic week for fail by various peoples.

1) There was the whole thing with Fiction Alley - if you don't know about it, well, it's all sorted out, but here are some links.

Funny business

seperis has a good number of links to what went on over hereIt was a really dumb thing to do, but it's all over now. But, damn, people, think this ( Read more... )

These are a selection of links I've been hording for ages now and I'll never get around to posting them if I don't do it now, so, here goes:-

1) Is anyone else just a little bit pissed that every film studio out there is jumping on the Avatar bandwagon and changing films shot in 2D into 3D films?

Well, so is James CameronAt this rate I feel I'll ( Read more... )

And yes, I can call it that. Even the judge seems to think this is all faintly ridiculous.

As I long suspected, I've fallen on the side of Steve Vander Ark and not JKR.

I really enjoyed this article in the Guardian, so here are some of my favourite bit...

"I believe the floodgates will open," she said this week, as though this sort of fan ( Read more... )