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Weezul writes:
Paramount's "Worldwide VP of Content Protection and Outreach" Al Perry has insinuated that Louis CK making $1 million in 12 days means he isn't monetizing. Al Perry asserted that "copyright law gives creators the right to monetize their creations, and that even if people like Louis C.K. decide not to do so, that’s a choice and not a requirement."
Bonus, slashdot favorite Jonathan Coulton apparently grossed almost half a million last year.
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Weezul writes:
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
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Weezul writes:
Today's House Judiciary Committee meeting on the Stop Online Piracy Act excluded any witnesses who advocate for civil rights. Google's Katherine Oyama was the only witness to object to the bill in a meaningful way. In particular, the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying "the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks"
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Weezul writes:
In what Egyptian ex-pats are calling the Egyptian Bastille Day, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security services on Saturday 5 March, freeing victims of torture there, detaining security personnel, and have started publishing secret documents on facebook and twitter.
An Egyptian Twitter poster wrote "I almost can't believe I'm witnessing this. We're inside the fortress of terror, our very own Mordor..."
Among the more amusing discoveries has been a room full of sex tapes, including Arab royals like Kuwait's Princess.
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Weezul writes:
"We may argue again and again whether the Internet is changing our brains, elevating us, lowering us, making us smarter, or making us stupid. But at the end of the day, it seems the real argument is about control — who has it, who shares it, and who wants it." What people who worry about the internet are really worried about.
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Weezul writes:
Dan Savage announced plans to relaunch his site spreadingsantorum.com in honor of the senator's expressed interest in a presidential run :
Santorum : The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
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Weezul writes:
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war. An officer who tried to stop the operation was railroaded by military investigators. (see also the Hatch Act of 1939)
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Weezul writes:
The senior Egyptian army officers currently ruling Egypt as a military dictatorship ordered the wholesale slaughter of the thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square. Robert Fisk writes that "Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters [on 30 January]", but when tank commanders on the ground received the orders from senior military officers they instead called their own families for advice. "Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they must never kill their own people."
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Weezul writes:
If you post comments on slashdot using safari, your spelling best be impeccable, as left click simply won't pull up the Mac OS X contextual menu with spelling corrections. Why does this happen? Is there some css we may force upon slashdot that'll correct matters?
