Tag: Megaupload
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GYBO to close
After 10 years the original mashup messageboard, Get Your Bootlegs On (GYBO) is to close, citing the SurfTheChannel case as a reason. Personally this is very upsetting to me – GYBO has been mentioned on this blog many times over the years as it’s how I first became part of the mashup (then bootlegs or…
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Lord Footnote vs The World
I’ve never even heard of this Lord Finesse (oh such a player…oh he was the vocal sample in Rockafeller Skank?…that’s hip hop history *right there*. Looking at his wiki page and 3 albums it does make me wonder if this is the hiphop version of patent trolling?) but this video by Dan Bull spells out…
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Ding Dong The Wicked ACTA is Dead!
I spend far too long complaining about this injustice or that, so it’s nice for once have good news – European Parliament yesterday threw out the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The right decision – people will blather on about rights-holders and piracy, but a much bigger issue was how the US steamrollered this treaty (it…
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Here Come The Drones: Extradition & Copyright
I’ve been a bit lax in posting about copyleft issues – partly because, apart from the SOPA/PIPA win it’s been mostly a deluge of shit, nasty political fudging (eh, Dave?), endless cases like Megaupload (love that the NZ court finally got some balls and told FBI where to go on deleting all the data) and…