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Submission + - Pirate Bay comes to Facebook (mashable.com)

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to 'Share on Facebook'. Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member's friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed. I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook's data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps (gnu.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Richard Stallman has published an article which warns about the "Javascript trap" posed by non-free AJAX-based applications. The article calls for a mechanism which would enable browsers to identify freely-licensed Javascript applications and run modified version thereof. "It is possible to release a Javascript program as free software"--Stallman writes.--"But even if the program's source is available, there is no easy way to run your modified version instead of the original ... The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome."
Education

Submission + - Call To Halt Donations To Stop Wikipedia Deletions 4

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ObsessiveMathsFreak
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes: "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser, in protest at the "notability purges" taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening? Is Deletionism becoming a dominant ethos on Wikipedia? Are the right people holding the reigns?"
Education

Citizendium After One Year 150

Posted by kdawson from the 3,200-articles dept.
Larry Sanger writes "Citizendium, 'the Citizens' Compendium' — a free, non-profit, ad-free, wiki encyclopedia with real names and a role for experts — has just announced that it's celebrating the one-year anniversary of its wiki, an occasion for which I wrote a project report. Make up your own mind about whether 'we've made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us.' We have been the subject of a lot of misunderstanding, but we've still proven a lot, such as that a public-expert hybrid wiki is consistent with accelerating growth and leads to high quality, or that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. Signs are good that we are starting into a serious growth spurt. Might the Web 2.0 umbrella be expanded to include real name requirements and roles for experts? It's looking that way."

Comment Re:The catch is.. (Score 1) 527

by botum (#10783856) Attached to: Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts
that's not google's style. Is more likely if they just put their html ads, at the end, but in any case, they know you want your mail online, your address book, and then your shedulle, your documents, your OS... it's just more confortable. go google go!

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