While I’ll wholeheartedly agree that there are some games which are far to violent for my viewing pleasure I won’t go so refer to them as “speech”.
They’re not.
Nor will I gladly watch Congress critters dictate morals.  I’m perfectly capable of not buying a game on my own, without any regulation, thank  you very much.
But apparently […]

Even though free software (in the freedom-to-modify-and-distribute sense) comes along with all the tools and utliities anyone would need to modify or distribute their own version of it, it’s apparently not “African” enough for this company.
I think the author misses the valuable point that free software doesn’t have boundries (as hackneyed as that is to […]

Apple looks to be as appauled as the rest of us that it’s allegedly outsourced it’s labor to a slaver like outfit. Will they make good on their promise to look into it?
Who knows. It’s always a good PR move to say that though, so you’ll forgive me for not holding my […]

DRM sucks. Not going to qualify that one, just state it.
But if you’re curious as to why DRM sucks, why not give YALB a quick look and read their excellent extrapolation of what’ll happen in a DRM’d future.
Seriously. Cars with region encoding… fun stuff. Check it out.
Once Upon a Time, in DRM […]

Lead thinker Eugene Kaspersky over at  Kaspersky Labs has decided to raise the ever ready specter of the poor getting uppity.
We can’t send over end of life PCs to third world countries, he warns, because they’ll put them to nefarious ends like virus writing!
Not too much of the scare monger, eh?  Bet he even made […]

DC Parris has once again assumed the podium to give us his insightful look into Net Neutraility.
DC makes an excellent argument to oppose a law currently being brought before the Congress.  It would affect all of our abilities to host content and let bandwith providers charge an additional tax on internet traffic at every leg […]

Looks like America isn’t the only country fighting a turf war over civil liberties. Over in the UK they’re passing a law to give authorities the ability to force the disclosure of encryption keys.
Two problems there. How do you prove someone has an encryption key? Because they’ve got encrypted data? Hardly a […]

Looks like AllofMP3 (popular, legal Russian music download site) suffered some downtime over the weekend.  It’s come back up now, but there’s rumors floating of a Russian crackdown on anything the IP markets don’t like.  Civilizing or somesuch, I’m sure.
At any rate, El Reg is covering the story and promises to update once they’ve got […]

Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

The American Gub’ment is continuing it’s war on porn.  Showing exactly how neutral ICANN is, they’ve forced the board to vote against the .xxx domain.  The rest of the world be damned, apparently.
If you didn’t know better, you’d be forgiven for thinking that porn is illegal in the States based on recent actions and onerous […]