Comment Re:Say what? (Score 1) 433
Right-click c:\users\[username]\My Documents, choose properties, find the Location tab. You're welcome.
Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction? 151
Justin Primus writes "Michael Geist's weekly column dismantles recent claims that Canada is the world's leading movie piracy haven. The article uses the industry's own data to demonstrate that the assertions about movie bootlegging and its economic impact are greatly exaggerated and that the MPAA's arguments about Canadian copyright law are misleading. I particularly liked how Geist dug up the fact that the MPAA itself says that there have only been 179 movies recorded with a camcorder over the past three years out of the 1,400 that the Hollywood studios released."
Journal SPAM: 'Half of voters' want Tony Blair to quit immediately
The rest favor burning at the stake...
Submission + - German Police May Not Break Into Suspects' PCs
hweimer writes: "Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled today that police may not secretly break into suspects' computers. The court announced that secret online searches are not comparable to home searches since the rights of the suspect are violated. Germany's Ministor of the Interior already announced new legislation to overrule the decision."
Journal Journal: Vista is Threat to Internet Freedom, Warns BBC. 1
BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers:
[Vista DRM changes] the way our computers work and the way they relate to the network, and those changes could be used to take away our freedoms.
... governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an "architecture of control".
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