My digital home on the internet.
Quit wasting your time debating a piece of legislation that has no power whatsoever. If it passes, the President will ignore it; if it fails, the President will still do what he and his cabinet want and feel is necessary overseas. I just want you to stop wasting my hard-earned money debating a whole lot of nothing. I’d personally prefer if it passes as proposed:
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As seen on Face’s Blog and Sam’s Blog and originally found on The Long Trail, this movie tells the full power of sharing information as well as how the innovations in the web enable more dynamic uses of the information.
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As seen on the New York Times Screens Blog:
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After perusing the latest posts from the Lifehacker website, I came across this great tip for Firefox users:
Other useful shortcuts posted in the comments include:
CTRL+TAB = Go to the next tab (right)
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB = Go to the previous tab (left)
According to an article on Arstechnica, a recent study by Digital Life America found that the real cause of piracy of movies/music online is not the lack of moral understanding or indifference in the act of downloading the media, but the economics put in place by the media producers.
In other words, because of the restrictions on what you can (and can’t) do with media and how much the producers are trying to charge to use the media, many people are turning towards illegally downloading copies with fewer restrictions on use (IE, they can watch the movie on their iPod, laptop, media center computer, etc… without any interference by the encryption placed on most movies that come on DVDs and CDs.
This is an interesting finding that I’ve had hunches about for the last handful of years. Now, lets see how the media industries react to the findings and attempt to rectify the situation (let’s hope it isn’t through more RIAA and MPAA strong-arming in the courts).
