A Peculiar Blog

Ok, this is happening in the UK but this particular flavor of censorship could easily be adopted by American ISP’s. There’s a joint venture between Virgin Media and BPI (the British Phonographic Industry), which represents the major record labels. (I believe it’s their version of the RIAA)
Here’s the part where you give everyone [...]

Revision3, an “Internet television” company was attacked over the weekend in the form of a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack. It turns out that the attack came from MediaDefender, a name many will recognize as an outfit doing a lot of dirty work for the RIAA, MPAA and various “Big Content” providers.
The attack consisted [...]

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, is now claiming that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips that are installed on many new motherboards will make it impossible to pirate game software.
While it’s true that the TPM chips he’s talking about will present a seriously increased challenge, there’s no doubt at all in my mind that determined hackers, [...]

Just in case anyone thought that Middle Eastern nations allow their citizens freedom of expression, take a look at this brief news item about a Syrian blogger. It shows clearly that the Syrians are among those nations who have yet to shed their mental corsets and realize that freedom of speech and expression is [...]

Recently I wrote about a project Modifying Thingamablog For Freenet 0.5 and while I have not yet been able to solve the puzzle of how to make the needed mods for the current version of Thingamablog, I have run into a problem with the templates.
Thingamablog uses tags within the templates that need to be converted [...]

There’s a saying to the effect that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. I saw something today that I have to say is very disturbing. It was a tagline somebody used on a post:
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the [...]

When I started my first blog, I was using thingamablog to do it with. I’ve long since converted to WordPress but I remember it well. It was actually a decent program.
Then on the latest edition of the flog “My Two Cents Worth(freenet link*)” there’s talk of a version that’s been modified so that [...]

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 you [...]

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 by the 1.75 million [...]

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. Yet at the [...]