Bookmark
Courtney Love redefines music piracy and blasts the RIAA | Salon Technology
archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright music opinion politics
Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.
I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
Bookmark
GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World
www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/good_guide_to_the_shadowy_organizations_that_rule_the_world, posted 2008 by peter in conspiracy fascism history humor list politics
From what we can tell, no group on this list is running the world from behind its locked doors. But those without keys can never be sure.
Bookmark
Is America too big to fail?
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/20/business/20fail.php?page=1, posted 2008 by peter in finance politics usa usdollar
The American consumer has for decades served as the engine of world commerce, using borrowed cash to snap up the accouterments of modern living [...] Eliminate the American wherewithal to shop, and the pain would ripple out to multiple shores.
Bookmark
Conservapedia
www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page, posted 2008 by peter in collaboration community humor opinion politics propaganda reference religion sat
Discover what Wikipedia, the public school systems, and the liberal media don't want you to know about atheism.
Bookmark
All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don't ask about the landing strip
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/17/nuclearpower.climatechange, posted 2008 by peter in environment oil opinion politics
The global public need only get wind of negligence and "human error" somewhere in the world and suddenly the governments advocating "green" nuclear energy will find themselves accused of gambling recklessly and against their better judgment with the secur
Bookmark
EU caves to aging rockers, wants 45-year copyright extension
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-eu-caves-to-aging-rockers-wants-45-year-copyright-extension.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright eu politics
The European Union has proposed a plan to retroactively extend the copyright terms on musical recordings for another 45 years.
Bookmark
Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation
online.wsj.com/article/SB121599469382949593.html, posted 2008 by peter in opinion patent politics toread usa
[...] today's patent system causes more harm than good. Litigation costs, driven by uncertainty about who owns what rights, are now so huge that they outweigh the profits earned from patents.
Bookmark
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion politics
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now.
Bookmark
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines, posted 2008 by peter in business environment health politics propaganda toread
At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in [...] the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the U
Bookmark
HejFRA.se
hejfra.se/, posted 2008 by peter in fascism inswedish opinion politics privacy terrorism
Tvinga FRA att läsa alla dina vanliga mail genom att lägga till signaturen med trigger-ord på "farliga" språk.
|< First < Previous 231–240 (259) Next > Last >|