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• Mar 24, 2015 @ 04:33am
  on Amazon Quietly Bricked Jailbroken Kindle Devices Last Year

  Intellectual property once again interfering with individual private property rights.

• Mar 19, 2015 @ 08:40am
  on Stop The Presses: Disney Tells Court About The Importance Of The Public Domain

  Which will be forgotten when Mickey Mouse is due to go into it again

• Mar 13, 2015 @ 01:50am
  on Report Says UK Citizens Must Give Up Right To Privacy Because 'Terrorism', Reveals Huge Secret Government Databases

  "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  Freedom and privacy have a price, and it is a price that is well worth paying.

• Feb 25, 2015 @ 10:30am

  Retweets are not endorsements

  on Is Retweeting ISIS 'Material Support Of Terrorism'?

  No wonder I am seeing this on so many Twitter bios these days.

• Feb 09, 2015 @ 06:30am

  Christ almighty

  on Samsung's Smart TVs Are Collecting And Storing Your Private Conversations

  Samsung knows of all the porn I watch from my external hard drive (as well as pornhub)?
  
  That's embarrassing!

• Feb 05, 2015 @ 08:46am
  on Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists

  "Applying the 5% profit margin to SNEP’s figures changes the percentages of ‘take home’ money quite dramatically, as you can see below.
  
  SNEP and E&Y calculate that labels earn €0.26 net profit for each subscription, while digital platforms earn just €0.10 per €9.99."
  
  I do suspect some Hollywood accounting here.

• Feb 05, 2015 @ 08:20am
  on Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists

  People need to vote with their wallets. If they care about music, stop buying from the major labels and support local and independent music by buying direct from artists.
  
  Artists also need to wake up and see who is actually screwing them over and realise that they now have better options.
  
  This is why 99% of the music I buy these days is from here:
  
  https://bandcamp.com/

• Feb 05, 2015 @ 01:18am
  on British Army To Create 1500-Strong Social Media Propaganda Force

  And Facebook to prompt all UK users to register to vote in the upcoming election.
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/04/facebook-to-prompt-everyone-to-register-to-vote-in-uk-general-election
  
  Private companies doing the government's bidding. Scary times.

• Jan 27, 2015 @ 09:05am

  Re: If I can't jailbreak it, I don't buy it

  on DRM Destroys Value: Why Years Old, But DRM Free, Devices Sell For Twice The Price Of New Devices

  HTC's making it easy for users to root their devices is the reason I decided on the One M8 for my phone upgrade.
  
  Fiio's allowing users to mod the interface of the X5 is one of the reasons (sound quality and format support being the others) I went for that device over others.
  
  Kobo's support of the basic .epub format is why I went for a Kobo e-reader over a Kindle.
  
  If the device ain't flexible, I ain't interested.

• Jan 26, 2015 @ 01:53am
  on UK Legislators Hoping To Rush Through New 'Snooper's Charter' In The Wake Of The Charlie Hebdo Attacks

  The worst part of this is that it is happening in the unelected House of Lords with no new debate or vote in the House of Commons.
  
  Whatever your stance on the Snoopers Charter, this is an egregious breach of parliamentary power.

• Jan 05, 2015 @ 08:42am
  on Moronic Swedish Collections Group Argues That A Car Stereo In A Rental Vehicle Is A Public Performance

  By their logic, the loudness of the music in my car must also be a public performance.

• Nov 11, 2014 @ 06:26am

  Obamacare for the Internet?

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  My head hurts
  
  Does anyone with a shred of intelligence take Ted Cruz seriously?

• Oct 24, 2014 @ 01:27am
  on City Of London Police Fail And Censor Their Way To A Lot More UK Taxpayer Money

  At a time when it has been announced that our public borrowing has increased yet again.
  
  Massive budget deficit (trade deficit too) leading to more and more debt and we throw money at an agency looking out for one industry. You couldn't make this crap up.

• Sep 11, 2014 @ 10:27am

  Re:

  on U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  Actually, the new U2 album being free disproves the "best things in life are free" adage.

• Sep 11, 2014 @ 10:26am
  on U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  The biggest scandal here is that Apple and U2 are forcing the new U2 album on Itunes users whether they want it or not.

• Sep 09, 2014 @ 04:29am
  on Europe's Highest Court Introduces New Limitation To EU Parody Exception

  Making the exception virtually worthless. Awesome.

• Sep 02, 2014 @ 08:10am
  on Iranian Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Against 'Immoral' High-Speed Internet Connections

  I'm pretty sure a fatwa has been issued against me.

• Sep 02, 2014 @ 05:23am
  on Indian Media Giant's New Policy For Employees: Hand Over Your Social Media Passwords

  And I thought governments were authoritarian.

• Aug 12, 2014 @ 05:52am

  Re:

  on Performance Rights Organizations Again 'Protecting' Artists By Killing Off Revenue Streams

  Cactus VPN: VPN for hiding what I am doing from my ISP. Smart DNS for getting around pointless geographical content restrictions. All for less than a Netflix subscription/

• Aug 07, 2014 @ 05:42am

  Re:

  on UK Finally Changes Copyright Law To Allow Private Copies, But Music Industry Says It May Challenge Move In The Courts

  As far as I am aware, that will still be illegal.
  
  This is just legalising private copying for back up purposes, burning to CD or copying to MP3 player/phone.

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