It seems to be the fate of all white male hip-hop supastarz to get hauled off to court for copyright violations. In this topsy-turvy time of P2P downloads (mostly of utter shite, but that’s beside the point) w/ © law and infringement so in the faces every man, woman, child, rock-star, pimp, congressman, and wannabe […]
It’s a good thing. Great article by Peggy Rogers. (via Raelity Bytes.) But many hackers in the original sense — now called ”white hats” — operate on the up and up; they go under the hood of tech products, legitimately experimenting to add features and expand the capabilities of digital hardware, search engines, games, other […]
how many times you been on Boing Boing now? Go Book Thing!
Not that we didn’t already know it but Bush lied… Now he’s admitted it. Somehow that doesn’t make things any better. Then there’s Cheney: “Some people, both in this nation and abroad, have questions about that strategy … Make no mistake: President Bush is acting to protect the American people against further attacks, even when […]
Stop Verisign DNS Abuse Petition. IMPORTANT! All you domain spotters!
Blame Canada. Hehe… Saw this on Boing Boing today and thought “Didn’t I see this before…?” Checked the date — sure enough, I had. (Thanks, Wick!) The point: In Canada, if I own a CD and you borrow it and make a copy of it that is legal private copying; however, if I make you […]
I just downloaded some illegal MP3s and my friend told me that the RIAA is going to sue everyone who downloads music. What should I do?
He [Tom Williams] declined to say whether Wal-Mart would take any action against an employee who decided to take up Playboy’s offer.
Could the timing by *any* better!? Terribly interesting piece on open source in Africa shows up on Boing Boing right as this thread was starting to get somewhere… Open source is the only affordable, reliable option for the long term, he says. A spreadsheet supports his contention — installation of servers, workstations, networks and, crucially, […]
To pick up where we left off… Firstly: Paolillo’s research was done as a refutation to the idea that the net, in and of itself, is democratic and diverse because of its global reach and will hence foster those principles by its very nature. w00t! I couldn’t agree more. The assumption that the net (in […]