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Un-Kindle’d

So you pay $300.00 for your Kindle and you pay another $10.00 for a file. Then later midway through 1984 something rather Orwellian happens…
Amazon deletes your files
yup, deleted from afar. I don’t know what else one should expect from something called ‘whispernet’; with a name like that nefarious activities should be expected.
If your [...]

We are not friends

So recently i played some Electronic Arts game on my Microsoft brand console that wasn’t all that great (Battlefield Bad Company) and decided Id had enough. A few days later I get an email from EA via getting my info from Microsoft which reads something about that game when it hits me. EA and I [...]

I thought it was 2007 not 1984 WTF?!

Excuse me did i miss something…
Woman Gets The $222,000 RIAA Shaft
How the hell is this right? WTF was that jury thinking? These record labels should be ashamed of themselves. Yet another reason not to buy music. $9,250 per song…thats a little more than itunes. Hopefully they do some online fund-raising for this lady.
At least some [...]

MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai

This has got to be the most retarded use of resources EVER.
MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai at TorrentFreak

Don’t Copy That Floppy

Anti-piracy campaigns are comedy. Before Captain Copyright there was MC Double Def DP the “Disk Protector”:

More info on the ‘92 anti-software campaign here.

iPhone: Why I don’t care.

So the big hot new Mac gadget is the iphone:
Shop Cingular | Cingular Wireless
and wow doesn’t that slimmed down pda/smartphone/media player/camera look nice, so why not want one?
-4 or 8 GB means not enough storage.
-Touchscreen makes for lousy dialing surface.
-Touchscreen makes for lousy keyboard.
-OSX looks nice but I like outlook.
-Camera lense is only good for [...]

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation – Los Angeles Times
I new these shifty bastards had to be up to no good…
Looks like the foundation is just a tax exempt corporation. 95% towards more profit, 5% for the pesky poor. Long Article though.

RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments

RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments
This is a good one for all those ‘protect the artists!” dick riders. Seriously folks, Fuck DRM and the RIAA.

Rich few hold world’s wealth | NEWS.com.au

Rich few hold world’s wealth
I’d be jolly for a couple extra bucks an hour, meanwhile. . .
if the world’s population was reduced to a group of 10 people, one person would hold $US99 and the remaining nine would share $1.
Greed, Damn.

Be loyal, kind and don’t steal movies

Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
Be loyal, kind and don’t steal movies
The brainwashing continues.