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Links

• Landmark Case Sees Pirate Bay User Hit With 5 Year Sentence
• Why People Pirate Game of Thrones, a Global Cost Breakdown
• Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network
• US Airways apologises for explicit image sent on Twitter
• Did You Retweet The USAir Pornographic Tweet? You May Have Violated New Jersey’s Revenge Porn Law
• Stop UK Internet Censorship | Indiegogo
• Podcrawl – Glasgow 2014

Also Worth A Read

• BitTorrent Sync for NAS boxes lets you roll your own private, secure Dropbox
• Recording Industry Wants To Have It Both Ways When It Comes To Pre-1972 Recordings
• UK Prime Minister Asked for Permanent Police Anti-Piracy Unit Funding

Tunes

1. Down to Earth by Rosko

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Links

• Record Labels Lose Big as Court Declares File-Sharing Tools Legal
• Netflix 4K streaming is now live
• A New Animated Web Series About Copying And Copyright
• Digital drugs will transform healthcare
• NSA Spied On Human Rights Watch And Amnesty International
• Here’s everything you need to know about the Heartbleed web security flaw
• The rise of mobile apps and the decline of the open web — a threat or an over-reaction?

Tunes

1. Maybe I’m Blind by Soma
2. Glasgow by Glasgow

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Links

• Canonical shutting down Ubuntu One file services
• Why We’re Dropping Freemium as a Business Model: Value vs. Cost
• Samsung: Our ‘next big thing’ ads drove Apple’s marketing chief ‘crazy’
• Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014
• Users face serious threat as hackers take aim at routers, embedded devices
• Mobile Spyware Use In Domestic Violence Ramps Up

Also Worth A read

• UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer
• City Of London Police Create Secret ‘Pirate Site Blacklist’ For Advertisers, With No Transparency

Tunes

1. Whiskey Lullaby (feat. Jeanette Robertson) by Kognitif
2. Devil with the Devil by The Underscore Orkestra

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Links

• To Catch A Meaningless Leaker, Microsoft Made It Clear It Has No Concern For Your Privacy
• Hackers Can Force ATMs to Spit Out Money With a Text Message
• Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to ‘Eradicate’ It
• De La Soul partners with BitTorrent to offer full-length mixtape download for free
• Dutch student offers up all his personal data to highest bidder
• Two Year Jail Term Planned for Convicted Cyber Bullies
• Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates Article and Images For Own Press Release
• The next version of Android could be truly business-friendly
• Computer access for the poorest, at $7 a head
• KEEPOD UNITE | Indiegogo

Tunes

• Mixte by Heres
• It Don’t Mean a Thing by ProleteR

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Links

• Google faces legal action over in-app purchases
• U.S. Court Orders Seizure of “DVD Ripping” Software Domains and Funds
• College Kid Tries To Pull A Ferris Bueller On His Grades, Gets An ‘F’ In Covering His Tracks
• NSA Aiming To Infect ‘Millions’ Of Computers Worldwide With Its Malware; Targets Telco/ISP Systems Administrators
• MazaCoin: Native American tribe adopts bitcoin derivative as ‘national currency’

Also Worth A Read

• Lubuntu might be the best Linux distro for Windows XP users
• Tim Berners-Lee: We Need an Online Magna Carta
• Watch Tyler Durden slug his way through a SNES-style ‘Fight Club’

Tunes

1. Diary of Travellers by Projekt Phönix

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Discussions

• With millions of sources of information & each of us filtering it to our own tastes, is there such a thing as “common knowledge”?
• Why have podcasts not caught on more than they have?

Additional Cast

• Gavin (Chalkahlom)
• Mikael (Inscius)

Tunes

1. Waxin b/w No Diggity by T Bird and the Breaks
2. Gloomy Talkings by BURNOUT

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Discussion

• The surveillance state allows us to watch Big Brother more than at any time in history, as much as them watching us
• Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery And Attempts To Get YouTube To Pull The Incriminating Video
• For those inside and outside of Ukraine and Venezuela, social media is the only media that matters
• Mass surveillance proves law and government can’t be reconciled

Links

• Sony to Film Sega/Nintendo Console Wars Movie
• Hacker defaces website of IT security certification body EC-Council
• Industrialised cyberfraud is keeping businesses awake at night

Also Worth A Read

• Revealed: The Secrets of YIFY-Torrents’ Network
• Why YouTube’s Automated Copyright Takedown System Hurts Artists
• Reminiscing the Wonderful ZX Spectrum
• Ford to ditch Microsoft for BlackBerry in cars say insiders
• Authorities Raid Large Torrent Site Again…aaand it’s Back Online

Tune

1. 100 Days by Juice Big City
2. Upside Down Inside Her Head by Dazie Mae

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Discussion

• Are we ignorantly spreading misinformation? And what can be done to avoid it?
• Coder Radio 89 – The Cost of Comments
• Believe it or not, a social media lie detector is being developed

Links

• Canonical Drops Upstart for systemd in Ubuntu Linux
• Ubuntu Community Council Explains Why Linux Mint and All Other Distros Must Sign a License Agreement
• BSA Offers Facebook Users Cash If They Rat On Software Pirates
• If You Use Steam, Valve Might be Tracking Every Website You Visit
• Game Dev Derek Smart (Again) Responds To A Negative Review By Making Vague Legal Threats And Banning Commenters
• US woman arrested over nine-year overdue rental video

Also Worth A Read

• Why Open Source Is Disappearing From Open Source Companies
• Copyright needs a dramatic rethink for digital realm
• De La Soul Gave Away Pirated Copies of Their Own Music

Tunes

1. I’m Doin’ Fine by Lorenzo’s Music
2. Smell by Cracked Heroes

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Links

• EA steers angry customers away from reviewing games at Google Play
• Flappy Bird Piracy Surge: Ok to Download it off The Pirate Bay Now?
• Minecraft-makers cancel film inspired by game
• French Privacy Agency DDoS’s Itself In Ordering Google To Link To It From Google France Home Page
• Debian inches towards new init system decision amid fallout
• After Tizen, Vodafone puts a foot in the Ubuntu camp
• Busted Android Store Founder to Crowdfund Battle Against U.S. Govt

Also Worth A Read

• Lego creates three minutes of British ads worth watching
• Linux For Everyone
• Is Tizen struggling already? Networks reportedly pull out of launch
• A closer look at the 22-hour Eve Online battle that cost gamers over £180,000

Tunes

1. Sfioro by Roberto Billi
2. Les Chemins de Traverse by Contreband

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Discussion

• What are the knock on effects of the end of Windows XP?
• Windows XP support cutoff poses data breach risk for retailers

Links

• Kentucky law could let kids swap foreign language classes for coding lessons
• Anti-Piracy App Aims to Educate People About the Music Biz
• Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Tried To DDoS Anonymous
• BitTorrent Sync Used to Create Decentralized Web Browser

Also Worth A Read

• Who actually develops Linux? The answer might surprise you
• Google Refuses to Remove Links to Tarantino’s Leaked Script
• Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit
• Podcasting Patent Troll Files Bogus Subpoena To Intimidate Donors To EFF’s ‘Save Podcasting’ Campaign

Tunes

1. Surfing In My Head by Deathcats
2. Black Eye Friday by Frankeneinstein

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