If you use Facebook you would know that there is a meme that is traveling around it to swap your photo for a photo of a “doppelganger” – someone famous that you look like. It's pretty cool. Suddenly you see pictures of movie stars next to your friend's name and you realize how much they [...]
Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
It is an unstated fact of life that women provide the nurturing for the men that bring home the bacon. Therefore any potential male suitor needs to know exactly what the bacon is. Guys, a hint, it’s not a 1979 Holden Monaro with mag wheels and a 400 decibel stereo anymore. It’s [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
Last Friday in a Swedish Court, the four pirates were awarded four years of jail time and financial damages against them (for running a Google search engine) of over three million dollars. In February three Thai CD Pirates were handed out jail sentences under a year each and fined $14,200 each for pressing 306 [...]
I was involved in email listserver discussion about peering restrictions in Australia recentely and one of the querants whom I’ll call SL asked me if the Swedish Peering model had a positive impact on the countries economy.My answer was complex but essentially a few weeks ago we rated 172 country’s around the world from poorest [...]
The definition of coincidence is interesting to contemplate. Have P2P’ers notice the remarkable coincidental disappearance of the majority of fake files and malware ridden content since media Defender laid its little head down ? And interestingly enough, it was the content industry that was paying them to infect our computers and waste our [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of the content industry owning shares in the broadband networks and that if they did – then P2P was merely another distribution channel. Today, I will revisit the scenario, but this time from the perspective of policy makers. Consider, if you will, the role of [...]
Recently, the Australian Government asked for comments in an RFC titled Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper.[i] We responded to 30 of the 32 questions – here is our response to Question 23 Q.23 Should the existing copyright safe harbour scheme for carriage service providers be broadened? Setting the Scene. The safe harbour scheme provides [...]