Submission + - Cory Doctorow "For the Win" - gold farming and DRM (newscientist.com)
adaviel writes: Cory Doctorow on "gold farming" and DRM — the SF author and technology activist talks about his new book "For the Win"
Submission + - Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing to Lending Books (torrentfreak.com)
Dan Fuhry writes: "A judicial panel in the Provincial Court of Madrid has closed a case that has been running since 2005, ruling that the accused are not guilty of any copyright infringement on the grounds that their BitTorrent tracker did not distribute any copyrighted material, and they did not generate any profit from their site. The article notes, "[t]he judges noted that all this takes places between many users all at once without any of them receiving any financial reward." This implies that the judges are sympathetic to file sharers. The ruling essentially says that file sharing is the digital equivalent of lending, selling or sharing books or other media. Maybe it's time for all of them rowdy pirates to move to Spain?"
Submission + - Cloth Successfully Separates Oil from Gulf Water (inhabitat.com)
Chinobi writes: Di Gao, an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering has developed a method of separating oil from water within just seconds using a cotton cloth coated in a chemical polymer that makes it both hydrophilic (it bonds with the hydrogen molecules in water) and oleophobic (oil repellant), making it absolutely perfect for blocking oil and letting water pass through. Gao tested his filter successfully on Gulf Oil water and has an impressive video to show it. Check it out here.
Submission + - Safari 5 released (apple.com)
pknoll writes: Apple have released the fifth version of the Safari web browser, which adds several new features. Reader mode detects multiple page articles and displays them in their entirety at the click of a button, and most importantly, there is now an official extension API.
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