Hollywood Studios [attempt to censor] Pirate Bay Documentary
Probably not deliberate, but pretty damn inept.
Over the past weeks several movie studios have been trying to suppress the availability of TPB-AFK [the Pirate Bay documentary] by asking Google to remove links to the documentary from its search engine. The links are carefully hidden in standard DMCA takedown notices for popular movies and TV-shows. The silent attacks come from multiple Hollywood sources including Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate and are being sent out by multiple anti-piracy outfits. Fox, with help from six-strikes monitoring company Dtecnet, asked Google to remove a link to TPB-AFK on Mechodownload. Paramount did the same with a link on the Warez.ag forums. Viacom sent at least two takedown requests targeting links to the Pirate Bay documentary on Mrworldpremiere and Rapidmoviez. Finally, Lionsgate jumped in by asking Google to remove a copy of TPB-AFK from a popular Pirate Bay proxy.
(tags: funny inept hollywood lionsgate fox viacom paramount dtecnet tpb-afk piratebay piracy copyright movies google)
Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
This is about the best tech journalism I’ve ever read on Flickr. nice one Mat Honan
(tags: gizmodo flickr acquisition mergers yahoo corporate-culture mat-honan tech journalism)
Resisting the lure of the Freeman movement | Workers Solidarity Movement
An anarchist critique of the Freeman movement from the WSM:
This has been a very brief overview of the Freeman movement that has tried to capture with broad strokes its nature and possible responses. There is room for much more work, including a more in-depth analysis of the various flaws in the approach to the law. The greatest danger however is allowing a movement to develop within anarchist circles that ignores the principle of mutual aid and implicitly promotes private ownership of resources, that by granting absolute right to individuals gives them the ability to ignore their responsibilities to the wider community and ecology that sustains them. In more traditional terms, the movement is one all about negative freedoms, ignoring positive freedom as a concept.
(tags: anarchism freeman-on-the-land politics ireland law wsm)
The Reactionary ‘Freeman-?on-?the-?land’ and a Political Fracture
Another leftie view on the Freeman movement
(tags: freeman-on-the-land politics ireland left-wing anarchism law)
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Well, apparently tomorrow, but close enough. Happy birthday to bradfitz’ greatest creation and its wonderful slab allocator!
(tags: birthdays code via:alex-popescu open-source history malloc memory caching memcached)