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Hugh Hefner on Tiger Woods sex scandal
Is it true Playboy-in-chief Hugh Hefner never takes his pyjamas off? Or is it that never puts them on? Anyway, it “isn’t really the sex,” Fox News quotes him as saying of Tiger Woods’ adventures.
Continue reading »IsoHunt’s Endeavor to Be Declared Legit Continues
Lately there has been a rather unfortunate p2p climate as headlines concerning some of the most popular torrent sites have revealed bad news all starting, of course, from legal matters. isoHunt’s founder, Gary Fung, wants to change that as he seeks for a favorable decision in court but what chances does he really have? After The Pirate Bay announced earlier this month the shutting down of its torrent tracker (but denied any connection between the decision and the legal pressure that was put onto two of the site’s founders), yesterday we reported how Mininova has finally capitulated to the entertainment industry’s joy and complied with the court’s ruling given this summer which had asked it to remove all the links to copyright protected material.
Continue reading »How to turn a world leader into a fourth-rate broadband economy
Filling in the wide open white spaces There is an interesting report out this week from an organization in the US calling itself Speed Matters. It is backed by the Communications Workers of America, and it makes a seriously cogent point about US broadband capability.… ?
Continue reading »Google’s Patry Returns to Blogosphere
Google’s chief copyright officer, considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property, has resumed personal blogging following a year-long hiatus. Patry’s latest copyright blog commenced Thursday and is named after his new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars . He stopped blogging last year amid concerns that “the current state of copyright law is too depressing.” He also said the public was confused, that he was often accused of writing on behalf of Google rather than himself.
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