Guess it’s not a great idea to annoy a bunch of hackers then.
Edit: Note I use the term ‘hacker’ in this sense, not the Hollywood sense.
It all started with this. If you’re wondering what the masks are all about, they are from V For Vendetta
Photos by me, Sunday, outisde the Chruch Of Scientology, Tottenham […]
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‘Anonymous’ Vs Scientology: Strange Goings On In London
‘Silicon Valley Hippies Destroying Music’: U2 Manager Misses The Point Entirely
Following on from the Qtrax debacle, we now have more hilarity from the MIDEM conference. This time it comes from Paul McGuinness, who has managed U2 very successfully for 30 years. His speech titled “The Online Bonanza: Who is making all the money and why aren’t they sharing it?” has been covered elsewhere, but I […]
Qtrax: 25 Million Free Tracks? Or Pie In The Sky?
The Times reported today a news story claiming a new service, Qtrax, would allow users to download 25 million music tracks for free on an advertising sponsored basis, with full backing from all four major music labels.
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly […]
Making Money From Free Software: Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion
Today, Sun Microsystems announced its intention to buy MySQL AB, makers of the open source MySQL relational database system, paying $800m in cash & $200m in share options. This is a huge amount of cash for a product which is primarily given away for free.
Over 100 million copies of MySQL have been downloaded or distributed […]
A Nation Of Criminals: How Burning CDs & DRM Are Changing The Music Business
I’ve always been under the impression that it was legal in the UK to use my iPod, and legal to copy music from CDs I’d purchased onto it. I own roughly 1000 CDs, and have recently gone through the pain of ‘ripping’ all of them to my home computer in an effort to reduce the […]
So Long Netscape, Thanks For All The Fish
Fifteen years ago Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed the first popular web browser “Mosaic“. The funding for this work came from the “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991“, an act created by one Senator Al Gore. President George Bush Snr. predicted that the […]
Power And Google: Can A Search Engine Save The Planet?
No, this isn’t a post about Google’s huge power over the Internet, iPhones vs gPhones , data protection or Google taking over the planet. It’s about power: Google’s power, the Pope’s power, the power of politics, and the power of the individual.
On Tuesday Google announced RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal).
Their aim is to promote […]
Radiohead Break Free
On Monday, Radiohead announced the release of their new album ‘In Rainbows‘ . Now free from their contract with EMI records, they’ve decided to release the album themselves in two separate formats; one being a ‘discbox’ edition, consisting of the new album on CD, two vinyl records and artwork, and the other being a digital […]
Power
While on a plane to Reykjavik recently, I struck up conversation with the couple sitting next to me. Native Icelanders, they were on their way back from the UK after a holiday. We chatted about Iceland and our conversation drifted onto the subject of Iceland’s geography. At a latitude of 64 degrees north, Iceland, like […]
