Category: Crivins (OGG)

Discussion

• A few 2014 predictions, Chromebooks, Microsoft woes & the NSA

Links

• Ubuntu Will Add Torrent Search to Embed Free Culture Into User Experience
• Good ‘Pirate’ Reviews More Important Than Piracy Itself, Game Devs Say
• Dan Bull Takes On YouTube’s ContentID Changes, Stolen Revenue, With A Diss Track
• Music sales decline for the first time since the iTunes Store opened

Tunes

1. Drumland – feat. BabsBaumgartner – alone by Drumland
2. Fuck Content ID by Dan Bull
3. Good Night and Shut Up by Amity in Fame

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Links

• German Copyright Troll Sends Thousands Of Shady Demand Letters To Users Of Streaming Porn Site, Redtube
• Prenda’s Paul Duffy Claims To Be ‘Too Devastated’ By Nelson Mandela’s Death To Comment
• Zavvi threatens shoppers after accidental PS Vita deliveries
• Norway To Digitize All Norwegian Books, Allowing Domestic IP Addresses To Read All Of Them, Irrespective Of Copyright Status
• EU regulator warns Nokia against starting a new career as a patent troll
• ‘Revenge porn’ site owner arrested in San Diego
• How Google Should Respond To Revelation That NSA Uses Its Cookies To Track And Exploit
• Tuxmachines Tentatively Sold to Techrights
• MPAA to Settle With Pirates For $2 Billion Plus Blood of First Born Child
• Valve Joins the Linux Foundation as it Readies Steam OS
• Valve renews Linux commitment, Microsoft and Sony should worry

Also Worth A Read

• Beastie Boys Not Letting Goldieblox Off; Launch Massive Countersuit

Tunes

1. I Wish You Were Here by Teresa
2. On The Run by PiLicAN

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Links

• US Hypocrisy: Pushing For Maximum Damages For Infringement, While Settling Its Own Piracy Bill For Less
• What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent
• Ubuntu 14.04 Adds Global Menu “Off” Switch
• German Court Tells Wikimedia Foundation That It’s Liable For Things Users Write
• Apple seeks to bar key Samsung executives from licensing negotiations
• Want Android and Firefox OS in one phone? Geeksphone has something lined up for you
• Huawei decides to exit the US market over cyber espionage concerns

Also Worth A Read

• NSA Gave Employees Ridiculous ‘Talking Points’ To Spread Among Friends And Family Over The Holidays

Tunes

1. The Wonder Of You by 4 Past Midnight

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Links

• It’s Official, Mir Will Be Used As Default On Ubuntu 14.10
• Microsoft’s Weird Anti-Google Video Says Chrome is “Commercialising” Everyone
• Google patent takes the social out of social networking: technology writes ‘personalized reactions’ for you
• Eric Schmidt Claims Google Considered Moving Its Servers Out Of The US To Avoid The NSA
• NSA Complained It Wasn’t Able To Spy Enough; Sought To Broaden Its Power
• Safeplug: Safe, Secure, Anonymous Web Browsing From any Device
• Are the Beastie Boys picking on science-loving girls? The copyright case is not so simple
• Twitch cracks down on ‘non-gaming’ broadcasts by PlayStation 4 owners
• The Slaughter by Brainchild — Kickstarter

Also Worth A Read

• Pirate Bay Founder’s Imminent Extradition Raises Big Questions
• The political party system must adapt to a world of virtual membership
• Press a button and Send a Tweet thanks to Arduino YÚN
• Is Open Source Hardware for People or for Businesses?

Tunes

1. I Don’t Know by The Spook School
2. Pepperskew’s Tale by James Raymond

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Links

• Angry Interns May Have Deliberately Botched Some PlayStation 4 Hardware
• Warner Bros: Our False DMCA Takedowns Are Not a Crime
• Defending the ‘Little Guy’ from Bogus DMCA Takedown Bullies
• David Cameron: GCHQ will be brought in to tackle child abuse images
• Google to warn users of 13,000 search terms associated with child pornography
• GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer
• Royalty Collection Agency SABAM Sued By Belgian Government Over ‘Piracy License’ Plans
• Crack out the champagne — Raspberry Pi sales hit the two million mark
• Robot used to round up cows is a hit with farmers

Also Worth A Read

• ICANN ‘coalition’ created to tackle concerns about the future of the Internet
• You can’t beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde
• 50 years of conspiracy theories and their effect on a nation’s psyche

Tunes

1. Best Friends by Floppy Dee
2. Angel Of The North by Roy Smiles

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Links

• Android ART: Google finally moves to replace Dalvik, to boost performance and battery life
• Play this: ‘Star Wars’ goes 8-bit with ‘Tiny Death Star’
• Linux Voice Indiegogo Campaign
• Piracy Release Group Has Been Spying on Downloaders For 9 Months
• McAfee Brands The Pirate Bay as a Security Threat
• The MPAA wants schools to teach first-graders the dangers of digital piracy
• Hotfile Wants MPAA to Stop Using Piracy, Theft and Stealing Terms in Court
• European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing
• Euro cops: We should be allowed to hack into computers
• This One Ad Sums Up Everything Wrong With Technology
• Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
• Musicians On The Wrong Side Of History
• Musicians’ anger at Spotify is like protesting the Sony Walkman — Billy Bragg

Also Worth A Read

• Linux Does What Win Don’t (Why Linux is better than Windows)
• Who’s Getting Rich In The Big Data Gold Rush?
• John McCain Says That Keith Alexander Should Be Fired… For All The Wrong Reasons
• 22 Examples Of NSA Surveillance Creating Chilling Effects

Tunes

1. Impossible love by Eugenio
2. Paranoia by Riot Agents

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Discussion

• Our behaviour on social networks has real world consequences
• Repeat a horrible lie on Twitter, pay $25,000: is that fair?

Links

• Pirate Bay Downloaders Inspire Free-to-Play Game Model
• Tesco petrol stations use face-scan tech to target ads
• CryptoLocker creators try to extort even more money from victims with new service
• badBIOS: The unstoppable malware that infects firmware, jumps ‘Airgaps’
• What’s At Stake For Google & Android In Lawsuit Against Rockstar Consortium
• UK Government Funds Anti-Piracy Outfit With Taxpayer Money

Also Worth A Read

• UK Officials Argue That David Miranda Was, In Fact, A Terrorist
• Korora 19.1 hands on: An excellent Fedora remix
• Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a home server
• Intel Open-Sources Broadwell Linux GPU Driver; Broadwell Graphics Look Amazing
• Too Much Cash Causes Pirate Admin to Quit, 43K Ebook Dump Imminent
• Fox Lawyers Doorstep Alleged Simpsons Pirate With $10.5m Lawsuit
• Internet might someday lose its dependency on servers, rely on P2P instead
• The YouTube Music Awards: a train wreck, exuberant, or just in search of the right tone?
• How the net was tamed: stopping cybercrime from child pornography to the Silk Road
• The Rogers Doctrine: More Transparency Creates More Privacy Violations, Since You’ll Find Out About Them

Tunes

1. The English Earth by Chris T-T
2. Connection by Forevertheless

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Links

• SolusOS: Life Happens…Distros Die
• Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo
• Twitter Images And The Anti-Social Social Network
• IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal
• RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations
• Ubuntu’s Amazon Shopping Feature Wins Anti-Privacy Award
• Copyright levy for ISPs violates EU regulation, Belgian government says
• India plans to restrict email use after NSA leaks
• Mike Rogers: You Can’t Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don’t Know About It
• NSA reportedly tapped into Google, Yahoo data centers worldwide without telling either company

Also Worth A Read

• Why The $110 Billion Gift Card Industry Must Die
• Why Proprietary Big Data Technologies Have No Hope Of Competing With Hadoop
• Repeat a horrible lie on Twitter, pay $25,000: is that fair?

Tunes

1. Superman’s Cape by 10 Code
2. 6th Kind by Zantilla

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Links

• Microsoft pulls some Windows Phone web ‘apps’ following complaint
• YouTube MP3 Converter Loses Court Battle But The Music Plays On
• MPAA Keeps Wanting To ‘Educate’ Others, But Why Does It Never Learn Anything Itself?
• Gov’t Contractor Uses Copyright, Fear Of Hackers To Get Restraining Order Against Open Source Developer
• Pirate Bay Downloaders Trolled By Movie Director’s Shaven Balls
• Bank Calls Customer Over Detected Bitcoin Transactions, Asking What They Were For
• Game Devs Abuse Copyright to Censor Negative YouTube Review
• Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments
• File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot

Also Worth A Read

• Fair Use(r) Survey on Fair Use practices

Tunes

1. And I think to your eyes by Marco Sciortino
2. Rise Above by Steven Presmyk

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Links

• Argos launches own-brand budget tablet for ‘tweenies’
• Police Dramatize ‘$445 Million’ Pirate Movie Site Raid
• Here’s why it’s legal for Google and Facebook to use your face in ads
• Protests follow Google ‘endorsed advert’ change
• Twitter’s new feature lets you receive direct messages from users you don’t follow
• Backdoor found in D-Link home routers
• Are Hollywood’s Artificial Release Delays Driving Piracy?
• In furor over rape and incest porn, ebook retailers aren’t the only ones to blame
• Kobo pulls self-published books after abuse row
• WH Smith takes website offline after porn e-book scandal

Also Worth A Read

• Oracle Opens Both Barrels On Open Source Software In Military Whitepaper

Tunes

1. Psychosomatic Heart Failure by The Gasoline Brothers
2. blahblahblah by The Fumes

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