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Happy Holidays
I found this classic Disney cartoon on YouTube, which is a wonderful source for videos like this; short, classics, fun. It will no doubt later be removed by the YouTube admins at the request of the...
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Google Torrent Search
As some readers will be aware, earlier this month a Danish court ordered the Internet Service Provider Tele2 to block it’s users’ access to the bittorrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Mike Masnick sums...
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GDrive filesharing?
Presently, Kaplak has a need for an internal, simple yet powerful online file sharing utility. We’re talking about simple intranet stuff, but without the complexity of setting up an intranet. We don’t...
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The Grey Zone of Syndication
As I mentioned in an earlier post, syndicating stuff is also one huge grey area of legal hazzle. Stumbled over this discussion from a couple of years back (as well as this one), which airs not at all...
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Barack Obama : Technology Empowers People
We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up. And technology empowers people to come together to make that change. —Barack Obama, speech at Google, Nov. 14th 2007. What’s at stake in...
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Lessig, the Abolition Movement and the Wicked Problems We Face
Stumbled over this very thoughtful interview by Charlie Rose with Stanford professor, Creative Commons founder, copyright reformer and Change Congress-initiator Lawrence Lessig (via Lessig’s Blog) :...
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Free Software And Proprietary Dead-ends
Stumbled over this interesting discussion about WordPress “premium” plugins and themes, i.e. plugins or themes which are sold at a price, just like any other piece of proprietary software. WordPress...
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You can have your ice cream and eat it too!
This previous friday, March 20th, there was supposedly a demonstration taking place in 4 major Danish cities, against the court orders which demand ISP’s to block access for their customers to the...
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Google as in “Massive Copyright Infringement”
Torrent index sites like The Pirate Bay are often compared to search engines such as Google in that both offer vast indexes of information, and both give easy access to unauthorized copies of...
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When The Garden Walls Come Crumbling Down
Or what would happen if Facebook went GPL In thesis no. 93 The Cluetrain Manifesto claims : We’re both inside companies and outside them. The boundaries that separate our conversations look like the...
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