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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/09_technolotics.mp3]
Listen: Episode 9
Scotti’s Record Shops chain in northern New Jersey, US, actively encourages ‘piracy’ [1]. Are CD rentals the way forward? How long can a forward thinking approach like this survive?
Customers can return a new or used CD in 10 days for 70% of purchase price
Digital File Check is a piece of software released by the IFPI, the international equivalent of the RIAA; which…
“..helps to remove or block any of the unwanted “file-sharing” programmes commonly used to distribute copyrighted files illegally. It also allows the user to delete copyrighted music and video files from the “shared folders” of the computer from where they are commonly swapped illegally on the internet.”[2]
Strongly (and wrongly) implying that file sharing is illegal, that it has no legitamate purposes, and that users do not have the right to share their media and run their choice of software.
From the site..
Digital File Check will:
The IFPI claim this soft ware will not report back on users media.
This in the same week that an IFPI representative from Iceland says playing music on the platform of your choice is ‘a privilege, not a right’ [3]
. Interesting attitude from an industry who’s entire business is built on technology they didn’t invent, and art they themselves don’t create.
With one of the worlds most standard complient, quickest and most feature rich browsers now free [4]; and the rate of Firefox exploits appearing heats up are firefox’s days as a media darling over? [5]
Is Opera better than Firefox? [6] Are Firefox’s customisable extension enough to push it beyond Opera features like..
Fast load and render time
BUT
No integrated RSS aggregator
Credit card companies in the US fight for the right not to inform customers their details have been stolen. [7]
SCL the commerical propaganda / ‘psy ops’ company [8]
One mans report in the Guardian; detailing his arrest and detainment for ‘looking suspicious’ in a tube station. [9]
Reporters without borders (group part funded by the French government) advises how to blog from repressive regiemes, and anonymously use the internet to enable dissent.
CBS [10]
Reporters without borders suggest that Chinese companies operating abroad are probably peddling their censorship and surveilence tools – but many of these tools were developed by Western corporations.
e.g.: ‘Great Chinese Firewall’ developed by Cisco.
Reporters without borders alledge china is creating a new kind of internet ‘not based on the free circulation of information but on market information’
ISPs are state controlled
Totalitarian observation like this is developing in the West too (e.g.: failed carnivore programme). And is exactly why we need technologies like Tor[12] [13], Privoxy [14], and Stephen Clarks Freenet [15]
This week it’s porn [16]. Forget crime, prescription drug addiction, obesity, natural disasters, or even terrorism. According to the FBI, the real danger facing Americans is Porn.
A new 8 man anti-obsenity squad is being formed to gather evidence against “manufacturers and purveyors” of porn, for prosecution under obsenitiy laws.
Controversial Bush appointee, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, is making pornography (sold to, and made by and for consenting adults) one of his top priorities.
Gonzalez is well know for his role in..
Placing limits on the freedom of information act
Newest systm goes in depth on podcasting [17]
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/09_technolotics.mp3]
Listen: Episode 9
Scotti’s Record Shops chain in northern New Jersey, US, actively encourages ‘piracy’ [1]. Are CD rentals the way forward? How long can a forward thinking approach like this survive?
Customers can return a new or used CD in 10 days for 70% of purchase price
Digital File Check is a piece of software released by the IFPI, the international equivalent of the RIAA; which…
“..helps to remove or block any of the unwanted “file-sharing” programmes commonly used to distribute copyrighted files illegally. It also allows the user to delete copyrighted music and video files from the “shared folders” of the computer from where they are commonly swapped illegally on the internet.”[2]
Strongly (and wrongly) implying that file sharing is illegal, that it has no legitamate purposes, and that users do not have the right to share their media and run their choice of software.
From the site..
Digital File Check will:
The IFPI claim this soft ware will not report back on users media.
This in the same week that an IFPI representative from Iceland says playing music on the platform of your choice is ‘a privilege, not a right’ [3]
. Interesting attitude from an industry who’s entire business is built on technology they didn’t invent, and art they themselves don’t create.
With one of the worlds most standard complient, quickest and most feature rich browsers now free [4]; and the rate of Firefox exploits appearing heats up are firefox’s days as a media darling over? [5]
Is Opera better than Firefox? [6] Are Firefox’s customisable extension enough to push it beyond Opera features like..
Fast load and render time
BUT
No integrated RSS aggregator
Credit card companies in the US fight for the right not to inform customers their details have been stolen. [7]
SCL the commerical propaganda / ‘psy ops’ company [8]
One mans report in the Guardian; detailing his arrest and detainment for ‘looking suspicious’ in a tube station. [9]
Reporters without borders (group part funded by the French government) advises how to blog from repressive regiemes, and anonymously use the internet to enable dissent.
CBS [10]
Reporters without borders suggest that Chinese companies operating abroad are probably peddling their censorship and surveilence tools – but many of these tools were developed by Western corporations.
e.g.: ‘Great Chinese Firewall’ developed by Cisco.
Reporters without borders alledge china is creating a new kind of internet ‘not based on the free circulation of information but on market information’
ISPs are state controlled
Totalitarian observation like this is developing in the West too (e.g.: failed carnivore programme). And is exactly why we need technologies like Tor[12] [13], Privoxy [14], and Stephen Clarks Freenet [15]
This week it’s porn [16]. Forget crime, prescription drug addiction, obesity, natural disasters, or even terrorism. According to the FBI, the real danger facing Americans is Porn.
A new 8 man anti-obsenity squad is being formed to gather evidence against “manufacturers and purveyors” of porn, for prosecution under obsenitiy laws.
Controversial Bush appointee, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, is making pornography (sold to, and made by and for consenting adults) one of his top priorities.
Gonzalez is well know for his role in..
Placing limits on the freedom of information act
Newest systm goes in depth on podcasting [17]