The internet, the final frontier for free stuff that doesn't suck, is steadily succumbing to greed. Earning a living isn't bad. It's the whole "alienating your users by majorly changing the site's policy (for the worse) without so much as prior notice" thing that's bad.
Great job, SUP. Thanks for ruining LiveJournal.

"...we don’t intend to undermine ( Read more... )

Before doing anything in life, you should ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?” If you think long and hard, I bet you will realize that He would not illegally download content from the internet. Certainly our Lord and savior Jesus Christ never sat down at His Dell XPS and wondered whether to use TorrentSpy or Mininova for all of His torrenting ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6701863.stm

"Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition."

*sigh*

That pisses me off. And to think I just bought a subscription to Last.fm a couple of months ago. Nothing stays independent anymore. Everything in the world is ( Read more... )