So, the MPAA is filing 286 more “John Doe” suits against internet users from logs obtained from old bittorrent sites LokiTorrent and SuprNova. I am sure that those who paid money to LokiTorrent to mount a legal defence will be Read more
This is an event at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. From the event’s advertising blurb: “Why should you care about film and video piracy if you can get a DVD cheaper than the retail price? Film piracy is theft. Black Read more
This is the name of an amazing documentary shown last night on Channel 4. I could try to describe the circumstances that gave rise to the documentary, but The Guardian does a better job than I could, but I will Read more
Last week, Slashdot reported on a number of Australian companies that have received letters about their use of the trade mark “Linux”. Linux is actually a trade mark owned by Linus Torvalds himself, and it has been sub-licensed to Oregon Read more
The llama song has proven so popular that I have to add another silly Sunday post. Remember, You can do anything at Zombo.com.
Wikipedia is holding a donation rally asking for user support. As far as internet causes go, it doesn’t get any bigger than this. Your donation can save a wiki article from ending up at the bottom of Google’s cache, so Read more
So, Machinima has finally made it to the mainstream in a great article by games blogger chick Aleks Krotoski. Machinima, in case you are too bored to click on the Wikipedia article, is a new type of creative expression that Read more
Wikipedia is fast becoming one of those great internet ideas, something that helps to define the web, just as Google, Amazon and eBay have done in the past. But I think that Wikipedia is much more than a mere site, Read more
(Warning: this is unofficial data, please take it with a pinch of salt). Some few days ago the Creative Commons blog reported that there were 53 million pages linking to Creative Commons licences. It seems only yesterday that we were Read more
One of my favourite phrases in English is “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. When I was growing up, I used to get a lot of my music from tapes recorded from friends (and even from Read more