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28Jan2010

What will the secret copyright treaty do to my country's laws?

by Michael Geist
dated: Jan. 28, 2010
SOURCE: michaelgeist.ca

Countries without statutory damages would need to add those to their laws.  Countries without DMCA-style anti-circumvention rules or a notice-and-takedown system would require those changes.  Countries without anti-camcording rules or new border enforcement measures or a host of other ACTA-related provisions would need to address those concerns.

For the full article, click here.

Wednesday
13Jan2010

TorrentFreak TV: Season 2, Episode 5

Wednesday
13Jan2010

Record Labels Demand Cash From Pirate Bay Founders

dated: Jan. 11, 2010
SOURCE: TorrentFreak


Universal Music, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music are demanding one million Swedish kronor from two Pirate Bay founders. A Swedish court banned them from operating the site last year, and the labels argue that they have failed to comply.

Both Pirate Bay founders currently live outside Sweden, and aside from their whereabouts, it will be hard to prove that either of them is still actively involved in the site’s operation without monitoring their every move.

Commenting on the announcement, Fredrik Neij said: “I am no longer involved in the operation of The Pirate Bay, so there is no opportunity for the penalty to be issued. I think the law is quite clear on this.”

For the full article, click here.

Both Pirate Bay founders currently live outside Sweden, and aside from their whereabouts, it will be hard to prove that either of them is still actively involved in the site’s operation without monitoring their every move.

Commenting on the announcement, Fredrik Neij said: “I am no longer involved in the operation of The Pirate Bay, so there is no opportunity for the penalty to be issued. I think the law is quite clear on this.”

For the full article, click here.

Tuesday
24Nov2009

Global Warming Hoax - DEBUNKED!

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
by James Delingpole
dated: Nov. 20, 2009
SOURCE: Telegraph

f you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations  – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

For the full article click here.

Thursday
19Nov2009

Governor the Barbarian Hears the Lamentations of California's Women

The Running Man announced that he won't be running for office after his present term. Governor Schwarzenegger has presided over the fall of California, where in its present condition, the government hands out IOUs instead of paychecks to its employees and tax returns to its citizenry.

When California's economy finally collapses, the Californians will be reduced to barbarity, and Grom, the god of steel, will rule once more.