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Guantanamo, The Game
Oh! What fun! A Scottish firm is turning the George W. Bush prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a game! “Guantanamo will be closed,” said The Guardian in January, going on, “The secret CIA prisons will be shut down. And torture and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ will be prohibited.” Maybe not.
Continue reading »Ex-RIAA boss Rosen: when fans took control
:- Had Napster — the original, that is – survived the attentions of the corporate music industry, it would have been 10 years old, p2pnet noted yesterday. Not only but also, “had the corporate music dinosaurs been able to extract their heads from their anal orifices,” they, and Napster creator Shawn Fanning, would now be bathing in endless streams of cash , we said. But the major labels didn’t want to share.
Continue reading »RIAA v Tenenbaum webcasting: redux?
According to court papers filed in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum , the defendant is filing a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, seeking review of the First Circuit’s ban on webcasting of district court proceedings. Defendant has moved for a stay of all proceedings, in the District Court, pending Supreme Court review.
Continue reading »Project Natal: motion-sensing for Xbox
p2pnet news view | Games:- With news that Toshiba is using its laptop facial recognition system for cars in the background, Microsoft says it’s launched Project Natal motion-sensing for its Xbox 360. No controller required, it says. All users need to be able to do is move their hands, shake their hips or speak.
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