Tag: Wikipedia
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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…
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Heigh ho! Who is there?
As part of the Great Mixcloud Upload I’m re-visting some old podcasts – currently upto the Wicker Man Return to Summerisle ones (probably the best podcasts I’ve done in recent times) but I missed this version of Willow’s Song by Isobel Campbell when I put them together – or rejected it because there are SO…
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…
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Warning to proto-mashup historians – ignore Wikipedia
Don’t believe a lot of what you read here. It’s just wrong. Maybe it has been edited by a few people to self promote; all respect to those people, but they arrived a bit later. Doesn’t it strike you as odd, when the page actually mentions GYBO and Boomselection started in 2001/2002 all the ‘notable’…