How Patent Trolls Kill Innovation
This video really highlights the ongoing issues of patent trolls, those who buy up patents just to sue people for violating those patents. These patent really serious hurt small start-ups and are...
View ArticleUK Court Orders More Sites To Be Blocked
This morning the High Court has ordered that all of the UK’s major ISP with have to block access to Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Unsurprisingly, the BPI (British Phonographic Industry)is behind...
View ArticleThe New Happy Birthday Song
A little while ago the Free Music Archive started a competition to see who could create a new, copyright free alternative to the famous Happy Birthday to You. The winners have now been announced and we...
View ArticleHow Notch Raised $510,000 For Charity
We’ve long said that if you give people something more, then they’ll be willing to pay that little bit more for your product. Pioneering this ethos is the Humble Bundle who regularly offer bundles on...
View ArticlePirate Bay Founder Thanks Supporters From Inside Prison
Gottfrid Svartholm has been in prison for the past few months, and he’s still got a few month left. Even though he’s in prison he’s still appearing online. He appeared online the other day in a YouTube...
View ArticleIs The Pirate Bay Block Illegal?
The other day I posted about the European Copyright Society ruling that hyperlinks were not infringing and that a blanket blockade of a site is illegal under EU law. This brings into question the...
View ArticleUKIP Strongly Oppose Porn Block
Next week the EU is to vote on a new piece of legislation titled Eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU. Now this doesn’t sound too harmful does it? The report call for a blanket ban on pornography,...
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SimCity: Oh, EA
This week saw the launch of the latest SimCity title, this in itself isn’t that newsworthy, but the launch didn’t go quite to plan. It turns out the EA put some seriously restrictive DRM on the game,...
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Google Removes Adblock Plus From Google Play Store
Amongst all this backlash this week about Google shutting down Google Reader, Google has sneakily removed Adblock Plus from the Google Play store. And it’s not just Ad-block Plus, there are plenty of...
View ArticleInnovation Comes From Bedrooms, Not Boardrooms
Innovation is one of the keys to our success, it drives our economy, or culture, our livelihoods and so many other parts of our lives forward. There was a point where innovation was rare, creating...
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