As mentioned last week, there’s a big push going on by the MPAA and the US Chamber of Commerce (the largest lobbying organization in the world) to get PROTECT IP voted on and approved in the next few days or weeks. Some in the Senate leadership have d… Continue reading →

We had already seen OpenDNS publicly come out against SOPA and PROTECT IP, and it appears other DNS providers are doing so as well. Dyn has come out strongly against the bill as well, comparing it directly to the Great Firewall of China.

Are you fami… Continue reading →

Thanksgiving week was not a good week for Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Stanislas Mettra. When asked if a PC version of the game I Am Alive would be coming, he responded that it wouldn’t because of piracy.

It’s hard because there’s so much pirac… Continue reading →

Back in April, just as Bitcoin was starting to get some mainstream attention, I questioned its ability to succeed long term. Too much about it felt like a fad, and there seemed to be significant questions about it. However, over the next few months, … Continue reading →

Last week, as I was writing my big post on the problems with SOPA & PIPA, Alex Howard, over at O’Reilly’s Radar blog, was putting the finishing touches on a massive, but incredibly comprehensive discussion of both bills. If you’re just waking up… Continue reading →

There doesn’t seem to be a “Black Friday” for getting good deals on booking flights. Maybe there is a single day of the year to buy really discounted plane tickets — if you know what day that is, please let everyone know in the comments. But technical… Continue reading →

As you may recall, over the last couple months we ran two separate contests, in which we are giving away $11,000 in $1,000 chunks. Today we’re announcing all the winners. The first was our PSA contest, where we asked people to create short PSA videos… Continue reading →

Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of mainstream publications writing about just how damaging SOPA and PIPA would be. Former WSJ publisher, and now columnist, L. Gordon Crovitz, has written an opinion piece trashing the bills as being nothing mor… Continue reading →

You may have recently heard the story of high school senior Emma Sullivan, who was told she had to write an apology letter to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback for a “disparaging” tweet she sent out while on a field trip to the state capitol. Apparently, … Continue reading →