Jammie Thomas: her story in her own words

Ive blogged about this before, and I'm so glad Ms. Thomas has had an opportunity to tell her side of the story.
The RIAA has been indiscriminately suing people for Copyright infringement, using some very dubious practices, and a high disregard for Judicial Process.

I was found liable of copyright infringement without the plaintiffs having to prove I downloaded anything, without having to prove I was aware of any file sharing taking place on my computer or within my home, without having to prove I owned a copy of KaZaa, without having to prove any files were shared with anyone from my computer and without having to prove who was on the computer the night of February 21, 2005.

Jamie Thomas p2pnet.net

MediaDefender Emails Disprove MPAA Claims

Brokep, one of the Pirate Bay founders told TorrentFreak earlier that they decided to file complaints because they want to make these big media companies aware of their own wrong doings: “I want them to take their crappy methods and stop their wrong-doing. They are going around accusing the pirate community for doing immoral stuff, when they do illegal stuff,” he said.

It will be interesting to see how this case develops. One thing is for sure, it will be hard for these media companies to deny their involvement with these emails as evidence.

Torrent Freak

Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.

“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.

Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal

Most Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking

Online privacy is vastly overestimated, as ad networks and marketers track surfers, study reports.
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld

Google Yahoo comparison

Have you ever doubted that good clean web design stands the test of time.
This should confirm those thoughts.

Comparison of Google/Yahoo front pages over time.

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A Nation of Sheep

A surprising piece on Fox news.
No, not surprising in its content, we know the US is losing the very freedoms it believes were given to it by god (!), but this is surprising as it was on Fox, a channel not normaly associated with dissent.

Judge Andrew Napolitano - A Nation of Sheep