A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!If I were to tell you that the sale of home security systems is causing an increase in break ins and home invasions you would think I was out of my mind wouldn’t you?
Well, those that have been screaming bloody murder over various forms of piracy, music, movies and lately, E-Books, are essentially trying [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Not long ago a new law was proposed in France known as “Hadopi”. It’s one of those “three strikes and you’re out” deals where after the third time being caught sharing copyrighted material online, the person involved gets their internet connection yanked permanently.
Evidently this is turning the French government into [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I guess I’ve been a little “out of it” for a while concerning things like Freenet because of the general shitstorm that my life has been turning into but getting back into things recently it’s occurred to me that in spite of being abandoned by the original developers, Freenet 0.5 is [...]

I saw something on slashdot recently called Why TV Lost that talks about the effect that computers and the Internet are having on TV.

What I found odd is that it talks about TV as if computers and video sharing & such have already killed TV. Like we should all just pack it in and put our TV’s in storage and use the old tv mount as a place to put a pot of begonias or something.