A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!First, I’ll quote the “official” announcement that appeared on the Freenet support list this morning:
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Japan’s four main Internet provider organizations have gotten together and worked out an arrangement where they’re going to be cutting Internet access to people using the “WinNy” P2P file sharing program.
Their big reason for this is the big battle against piracy. They’re claiming that most of the files being traded [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to an item on Wired, Some people in the music industry are working up a new plan to bilk people out of more money. It goes back to one Jim Griffin, a consultant in “digital strategy” for three of the four major “big content” music providers, and his suggestion [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Not too long ago I discovered a new plugin that I’ve really come to like called “MinimizeToTray”. It’s available both the for the Thunderbird email client and for Firefox web browser.
What it does is simply that it allows Firefox / Thunderbird to appear as an icon in the system tray [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’m thinking that the people running the MPAA need to get their story straight because what they’ve been saying lately sounds like they belong in a drug rehab facility.
Why? Because on the one hand, they’ve been ranting for years now about how online piracy is costing them humongous amounts of money. [...]