As reported around the web, the RIAA’s ISP removed a GPL-infringing piece of content (to wit: an piece of snitchware infringement-detection “University Toolkit”) after a DMCA notice was sent by Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett.
It’s nice to see the RIAA getting some of its own medicine, but I’d rather see the broader public getting a better [...]

Linden Labs, the people behind Second Life, recently sent a letter specifically permitting parody of the burgeoning online service. [link]
The parody, called “Get a First Life”, exhorts users to “Go Outside. Membership is Free!” amongst other hilarious send-ups of the service.
This has resulted in positive coverage throughout the blogosphere, even recently rising to coverage [...]

How many times have you managed to stumble into a pornographic pop-up?
With or without having visited a pornography site?
I know I have, and I take a fairly dim view of internet porn.
Enter a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, whose insidious crime of being technologically hapless could earn her 40 years in prison. [link]
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Of course, by now everyone that leaves their house, or has a television, knows that Saddam Hussein was executed today. If you don’t believe me, there’s plenty of video out there. (Link is NSFW, Graphic Content)
Here’s my question: Is this the point where the mob-rule aspect of the Internet comes to dominate traditional journalism? The [...]

Just to discuss the background, there was an article on the popular digerati blog Boing Boing yesterday on how a lot of popular adult-content blogs have been demoted as part of Google’s most recent alterations to its search algorithm. There’s a certain condescending undercurrent that really disturbs me about the discourse on this one.
Firstly, this [...]