Hotel forgives guest whose room was trashed by hungry seagulls


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To the mods: As of now, the source link is working correctly for me; not sure what was wrong there earlier.

07/10/2013 | By Charles Hawley
Vast Internet surveillance. A cross-border network of state-sponsored digital snoopery. Governments shrugging their shoulders at widespread protest against the omnipresence of Big Brother. The NSA spying ( Read more... )

Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with several major Hollywood studios were recently logged using bittorrent networks to share films created by rival studios, according to a report on peer-to-peer blog TorrentFreak.

Working with the bittorrent tracking service ScanEye, TorrentFreak identified IP addresses registered to Paramount, Disney, ( Read more... )

Despite what the Republican Party of Maine might want people to believe, playing "World of Warcraft" does not make a person unfit to hold office.

Or so Colleen Lachowicz proved Tuesday night.

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Pirates Party's rapid rise upsets German landscape
Source - Reuters
By Sarah Marsh and Hans-Edzard Busemann
NEUMUENSTER, Germany | Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:08am EDT(Reuters) - With some sporting pirate garb and black beards in light-hearted tribute to their name, Germany's internet-savvy Pirates party gathered this weekend to chart a course that may yet ( Read more... )

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The Hypocritical Use of Piracy As a Corporate Weapon

Rupert Murdoch, media tycoon, founder and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, has been a fanatical supporter of tougher anti-piracy legislation including PIPA and SOPA in the US. But this week it was claimed that Murdoch’s piracy crusade is a rather hypocritical one, with his News Corporation ( Read more... )

Does culture really want to be free?

Are new media companies "digital parasites"? The author of "Free Ride" tells Salon piracy is killing art
By Scott Timberg

Over the last few weeks, Salon has been looking at the destruction of the creative class by the Internet, the recession and a transforming economy. A new book, “Free Ride,” by the ( Read more... )

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Many internet users in the United States have watched with horror as countries like France and Britain have proposed or instituted so-called “three strikes” laws, which cut off internet access to those accused of repeated acts of copyright infringement. Now the U.S. has its own version of this kind of law, and it is arguably much worse: the ( Read more... )

Kenyan and French authorities are seeking out suspected Islamist militants who kidnapped a 66-year-old disabled French woman from her home in northern Kenya Saturday and took her to Somalia by speedboat ( Read more... )