Down in Australia they've been looking at updating their copyright laws to catch up to the digital age (read: to make the laws more favorable for an entertainment industry that refuses to adjust to the market), but seem to be doing so in a way that pretty much guarantees the opposite would occur.
I've been a loyal fan of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica since the 2003 miniseries, and it just goes from strength to strength. After a very "different" few episodes centred around a planetary settlement and subsequent enemy occupation (which sent the show's focus plummeting down from space), the stories following the inevitable "escape" have been incredibly […]
Now that IE7 has been distributed via Windows Update to thousands upon thousands of Microsoft customers and fanboys alike all over the world, we're seeing a whole bunch of sites with layouts that break because they are written with hacks and workarounds designed for IE6.
For those of you not already aware, the RIAA remains inexplicably unaware of any existing reason that they should not have total, uncontrolled access to the hard drive of a defendant accused of intellectual property violations.
I've gone on a couple of times about how the recording industry on the whole needs to get used to the idea that embracing the internet as a free medium is a positive thing.
After much ado recently about stupid patent applications and controversy over the actual purpose of the (US) patent system, the New York Times has come out in favour of what every sane person knows: patents are supposed to encourage innovation, not to prevent competition.
Now, do I upgrade to Firefox v2.0 or not?
Yay, Weird Al! Everyone's favourite parody artist has taken to "happily crediting the internet for his latest album htiting the top ten on the Billboard charts (his first ever top ten hit)".
Don't you just love it when bigshots make up the rules and expect everyone else to agree?
Over the past few months we've seen more and more examples of attempting to brainwash kids into believing that all the new-fangled spy technology destined to restrict our freedom is actually a good thing.
