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Comment ICE, SOPA, PIPA... (Score 2) 346

Am I the only one who senses that China/Russia are pushing for UN control of the internet because the US overstepped its bounds by enforcing its shitty copyright laws beyond its borders with domain seizures? We need to stop this, and before that happens we may need to force the US government to guarantee that it won't mess with internet infrastructure any more...

Comment Re:Using the internet for its intended purpose wor (Score 1) 112

It's hilarious how surprised the devs' comments are. They expected the fundraiser would flop, and then they made their requested amount in less than a day... twice! I bet they are amazed and horrified that there was an actual business model there that everyone missed all this time.

Comment My dreams just came true! (Score 5, Informative) 112

Fuck yeah!

Btw, to those who don't know who Tim Schafer is, he was the Lead Designer on Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. Ron Gilbert, who is also on the team, is the guy who designed Monkey Island. This is the stuff of legends, people. I never thought this could ever happen.. Kickstarter really works!

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Submission + - Kubuntu loses Canonical funding (kde.org)

airfoobar writes: Today Canonical has announced that official support for the Kubuntu flavor of Ubuntu will be discontinued after 12.04. This is not the end, of course, as it simply means it will become a community project like Lubuntu and Xubuntu.

Comment Re:It's the distribution channel (Score 1) 516

The flaw in your narrative is that you fail to account for when the breaking point is reached when we are forced to choose between the internet and IP enforcement. Internet freedom and IP laws are mutually exclusive, and the popular unrest worked up by SOPA/PIPA in the US mainstream and the massive ACTA protests in Europe indicate that the fate of this one-sided Prohibition on Copying is not as clear-cut as you assert.

Comment Re:Can't prove it was willful? Don't shut it down. (Score 2) 268

Guess what... ACTA criminalises websites that "wilfully" infringe. And are the MAFIAA morons saying, quite clearly, that wilful infringement can't be proven. So why did you put it in ACTA, you sonsofbitches? Because you already know it can't be proven, that's why, so it opens the door to your next demands in the next undemocratic piece of crap legislation you write. Bollocks to this.

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