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Fancy a free, Do It Yourself 3D printer?
A couple of years back, “Would you pay $5,000 for a desktop printer — one that prints out a solid, 3D object,” p2pnet asked, referring to IdeaLab’s Desktop Factory . So how about a DIY 3D printer? “I was voting on Sourceforge Community Choice awards, when I found this,” says a Reader’s Write , referring to RepRap .
Continue reading »Phorm: the phinal days
Not to put too fine a point on it, Phorm is Phuked. Former partner British Telecom, BT, has dropped the company . Based in the US, Phorm specialises in siphoning up online user information for behavioural targeting , intrusive targeted advertising based on what people are doing online, and where they’re doing it — information gathered without their up-front consent.
Continue reading »‘Piracy is sexy’ – Vivian Reding
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Some 60% of 16- to 24-year-olds admit they’ve, “illegally downloaded says European commissioner for the information society and telecoms, Vivian Reding. Citing a European Commission survey, “Piracy is increasingly being seen as ’sexy’ among young ‘digital natives’,” she says, quoted by the IDG News Service . “Are there really enough attractive and consumer-friendly legal offers on the market?” – the story has her asking, going on »»» Does our present legal system for Intellectual Property Rights really live up to the expectations of the Internet generation?
Continue reading »Chrome O/S: buying what you need …
Net advertising company Google wants to foist its very own Chrome operating system on the world. But, “we already have Linux, a completely free, no-strings-attached alternative to Steve and the Boyz,” p2pnet said yesterday. “Then there’s Apple, with all kinds of strings.
Continue reading »If Michaelangelo had copyrighted angels …
I was lambasted back in 96-99 by the underground community for voicing my opinion about the need to obfuscate our dealings, and pointing out the imperative of adopting encryption in our file sharing. My thoughts on this pretty much fell on deaf ears primarily because the platform of choice was obscure enough to go unnoticed, and secondly, there wasn’t a readily available process that would facilitate such an implementation. During this same period, while working my way deeper and deeper underground, I found out something similiar to this was already being utilized.
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