Internet Pirates Will Always Win By NICK BILTON STOPPING online piracy is like playing the world?s largest game of Whac-A-Mole. Hit one, countless others appear. Quickly. And the mallet is heavy and slow. Take as an example YouTube, where the Recording Industry Association of America almost rules with an iron fist, but doesn?t, because of … Read more
Wikileaks Resources Wikileaks Resources 1. Wikileaks Events Calendar 2. Wikileaks Petitions 3. Support Wikileaks 4. Main Wikileaks Resources 5. Cablegate Resources 6. War Leaks 7. Frequent Falsehoods 8. Twitter Archive 9. Press Archive 10. Video Archive . . . Wikileaks Events Calendar (may take a minute to load) Please note, some events may be duplicated. … Read more
The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung The Berkman Center is pleased to share a new report from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI): West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 The report analyzes the use of American and Canadian-made tools … Read more
How the World Is Spending Its Time Online [STATS] from Mashable! by Brenna Ehrlich John Robb interview: Open Source Warfare & Resilience from Boing Boing by Chris Arkenberg John Robb is a globally-recognized author, technologist, and entrepreneur specializing in the complex systems of insurgency and asymmetrical warfare. His book, Brave New War, is an Amazon … Read more
Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.
In a scorching post on the company’s blog, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine accuses Viacom of going to great lengths to secretly upload videos to YouTube in order to take advantage of its promotional value even as they were suing YouTube, arguing that YouTube should be able to tell the difference between Viacom videos that were uploaded by actual infringers as opposed to Viacom employees and agents being paid to pretend to be infringers.