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Entertainment Industry Embraces New Business Model: Suing Google For Third-Party Android Apps That ‘Promote Piracy’
Who says the entertainment industry can’t embrace new business models? From their hamfisted attempts to make digital movie distribution less convenient than driving to the store and purchasing a DVD to their recent “collateral revamping” of various clo… Continue reading
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FTC Reminds EPIC That Suing The FTC To Get It To Investigate Google Might Not Be The Best Idea
If you’re unfamiliar with EPIC, it’s an extremist “privacy” rights group. We’ve called the group out in the past for its rather ridiculous position on privacy issues. EPIC has particularly had it in for Google, which it appears to think is the eviles… Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Using the Linux Command, dirsplit, to Dynamically Backup a Directory Over Multiple DVDs
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At my day job I deal with a fair amount of image data. We typically are shipping the data out on either hard drives, thumb drives, or via SFTP. On occasion we will some times burn it to a CD and/or a DVD. But until today all the data was either large sets (200-400GB) variety, [...] Continue reading
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European Commission Suggests ACTA’s Opponents Don’t Have ‘Democratic Intentions’
Last week, we had a story about the IFPI (the international equivalent of the RIAA) saying that the ACTA protests were trying to “silence the democratic process”. You might have thought that was bad enough, but here’s worse.
Netzpolitik.org points … Continue reading
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I can’t design in the browser
Sarah Parmenter with some good honest thoughts about the popular idea of designing in the browser.
I’ve tried, goodness knows I’ve tried, but my designs end up suffering, looking boxy, bland and uninspiring.
Not that I’m that great of a designer but I feel the same way. I have to start in Photoshop to get anything decent looking. I try to get out it as soon as possible, but once I’m into the HTML/CSS my brain is in a more …
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The ‘New’ Righthaven Offers Discount To Techdirt Readers Who Want ‘Spineful’ Hosting
Remember Righthaven? No, not that Righthaven who sued tons of people and companies on questionable claims in order to get them to cough up settlements. We’re talking about the other Righthaven… the Swiss company that bought the Righthaven.com domai… Continue reading
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Megaupload Boss Kim Dotcom Granted Bail After US Fails To Prove He’s Got Cash Stashed Away To Make An Escape
Whatever you might think of Kim Dotcom (originally Schmitz), the founder of Megaupload, he at least deserves a fair trial. US officials had worked hard to keep him locked up without bail, but a New Zealand court has finally granted him bail after no o… Continue reading
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Smart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea
A Smart TV is a TV that includes at least a rudimentary OS, access to web and Internet functions, and streaming content. They have been a hot product category at the last two CES shows, and the rumor that Apple is about to launch one is adding fuel to … Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Misty Water-Colored Memories
There’s a lot we still don’t know about how our own brains work. Our minds are sufficiently complex that the only practical way to begin studying how they work is to categorize the different processes and try to look at how those individual parts opera… Continue reading
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‘Lawful Access’ Rhetoric Rings Hollow When The Facts Are Wrong
Ever since our Public Safety Minister made the infamous claim that his opponents were standing “with the child pornographers”, support for Canada’s proposed “lawful access” legislation—which would force ISPs to turn customer information over to p… Continue reading
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