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Australia is at War with Anonymous.

By Tom Koltai

Early last year we blogged about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube.   We described and quoted a US website as to what constitutes an act of war.   DECLARATION OF WAR – An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between a nation and some [...]

Facebook is the first “Technology” that hasn’t been powered by Porn.

By Tom Koltai

Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks.   The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy.   Historically, there [...]

Questions We Should Ask

By Tom Koltai

We start today, with a little wind-up. Just like a clockwork mechanism, a Blog should wind up the tension, to allow the bell to be struck with a clear ringing blow. So get a coffee, put your feet up, take a deep breath and…   Why did God prohibit Adam and Eve from partaking of [...]

Twitter Jury Delivers Guilty Verdict

By Tom Koltai

Someone once told me that all publicity is good publicity.   I’m not quite so sure.   It’s not often that a small radio station in Australia can be heard around the world. But today, Nova 96.9 managed to do it.   Making the number 1 spot on Twitter, the story of the young girls [...]

Music Industry now Distributing Porn (Legally?)

By Tom Koltai

Following on from an article written by Chris Gilbey last week, Record Companies – The True Criminals wherein he pointed out that that the music industry was possibly one of the main causes of the lowering of community morals when the lyrics of some songs played over the radio were questionable when played in the [...]

The Hedonic Value of P2P to our Economy.

By Tom Koltai

The other day I blogged about the fact that P2P was big business. We discussed the value of the infrastructure purchased as a result of P2P activity, both at the carrier and consumer level.   Today we will be anecdotally commencing an examination of the apparently growing causational relationship between higher education and file sharing [...]

P2P – Kill It And You Kill The Whole Economy

By Chris Gilbey

For as long as the Internet has been with us there has been a view that porn is what drives growth. Now that concept has actually been with us since the time of the invention of the printing press. Back then of course, there were essentially two business models for content, or three depending on [...]

Do you Remember Porn on BBS'es?

By Tom Koltai

Governments have for sometime been attempting to legislate against content on the Net. Here's an article I wrote in May, 1993 for a magazine called Chips 'N Bits. It would appear that little has changed in the intervening 16 years.COMPUTER PORNOGRAPHY A little Peek at XXX The Reverend Fred Nile is famous for his stance [...]

Is Obama Creating a new Dark Age.

By Tom Koltai

The term “Dark Ages” was originally intended to denote the entire period between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance period.   Our history is full of injustices that we look upon in our history books with some surprise – but how could the people have allowed that to happen?   History lists [...]

Freedom Or Freedom Of Speech

By Chris Gilbey

There are strong corporate interests that want to take away our freedom. Masquerading as protecting freedom and democracy is a plan to corporatise the web and ensure that big content owners become the gatekeepers to content. The following is a quote from a blog piece by Steve Lendeman that says it very succinctly – and [...]