As a big Netflix fan, I’ve been following them pretty closely for a while since the Hacking Netflix RSS feed gets piped to my phone through Google Reader and I’m seriously starting to wonder what’s up with them. First we had the Qwikster debacle that caused a mass exodus of subscribers and subsequently led to...
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In a new move by Twitter (as part of a partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation) – they’ve revealed all of the DMCA takedown notices they received during 2011. Their stated goal is that they want their process that leads to tweets being deleted to be more transparent to their user base – so if they...
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Chances are, you’ve got some old piece of electronic equipment collecting dust in the closet or you’ve chucked it into the trash to end up in a landfill. We’re probably all guilty of doing that at some point – but you actually can get rid of that stuff. Electronics generally contain all kinds of fun toxic...
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It appears that Congress and the Senate aren’t completely deaf to the protestations of their constituents – first SOPA got shut down for now…and now a vote on PIPA has also been postponed as well. This isn’t cause to start celebrating just yet – but it is an encouraging sign when support for SOPA/PIPA...
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Since today is the official SOPA protest day with Wikipedia turning the lights out for 24 hours and many other site have also gone dark or posted protests including ArsTechnica, Slashdot, Google and Reddit – we’re reporting yet another rather damning bit of evidence as to why SOPA/PIPA are bad: A group of well-known...
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In a post some time back, I reported that the Indian government was asking Google and Facebook to censor content created by their users – and that Facebook and Google said they couldn’t do so. As of right now, the Indian government has been attempting to prosecute Google and Facebook for refusing to comply with orders to...
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