Tag: file sharing
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You Don’t Own MP3, I’m not just one of your many toys…
One of the questions that is thrown around is ‘why do people pirate software or MP3s?’ when there are perfectly good alternatives that are legal. Well one reason might be these ‘legal’ alternatives mostly have license agreements you don’t actually OWN any of it. You rent it with a license that can be taken away…
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…
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Sir Bonarar – 3 Strikes and you’re out! Howzat! Good show!
Bonzer work from those awfully nice chaps (and ladies) at Open Rights Group. What ho! I could write novels about the whole 3 strikes farrago and Mandy’s Pirate Finder General nonsense…I’m not ignoring it, in fact I got a letter from Stephen Timms in response to the letter I wrote to Glenda. It was a…
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Dear Glenda – the response
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I…
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Server slow
The server is dragging more than Danny LA Rue in a 24-hour paint-watching marathon, so the big zip files (London Booted, I Created a Monster) are now hosted on Mediafire. Not sure they are causing that, but taking them down just in case.
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…