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In some coffee shops you can easily get access to the Internet, what they do is just give you the password and voila. Neat right ? Anyway, these other coffee shops, chains to be precise, hire a 3rd party company to do it for them. So the other day I went in to one of them to get a coffee and an ...

Vic Toews wants to spy on underage children, and all other Canadians. At least that is what I understood from what I read today<...

If you don't now what ACTA is, search the Internet for ACTA, that should let you find your own sources. If you do know what it's about then you are likely to be against it (unless you are part of the 1%).

On February 11 2012 you can protest a...

EFF and Carpathia have joined forces to help Megaupload users who stored non-infringing files retrieve what they can. The only limitation is that this is only directed to users that are based in the United...

Stella GNU/Linux is finally born. It is a desktop focused, Gnome2 based Centos 6 remix (exact words of the maintainer). The features look really neat if you are looking for a CentOS/RPM based OS that is rock stable rather then bleeding (buggy)...

Yesterday (or still today in certain time zones) was Data Privacy Day.. I was made aware of this by a doodle on DuckDuckGo.

Of course I opened a new tab and r...

Demand Progress has started an open letter to twitter and asked its subscriber's to sign it, the letter is short and as follows:

Source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere has been borrowed.. . back in 2006, but they have finally had time to get around to that and now are advising their clients to disable the software.

Why ? What is the sec...

O2, a UK phone operator, seems to be sending along in the HTTP headers of their clients http requests the user's mobile phone number! Lewis Peckover has discovered this and set up a test page for people to see ...

A new book to be released in a few hours (I think this is on USA time): No Safe Harbor. This book is released by the United States Pirate Party, it features many interesting people and ideas.... .. and ye...

I just heard about Global Censorship Checkpoints, it's aim is to document various projects around the world that want to police the Internet. On this site you can see, which polices are implemented or under study in each country, there are also links t...

How can the USA authorities take down a Hong-Kong based company and arrest people in New-Zealand ? Ars Technica explains, it turns out that the...

MegaUpload.com was just shut down and executives arrested, data centres violated, etc etc. The FBI it seems has the right to arrest people all over the world (New Zealand, Germany, Canada, etc etc).

At the same time the MPAA, RIAA and Department Of "Justice" websites are al...

It's no news that Fox News is mostly made up of real geniuses who always deliver properly researched, reliable and fair information. Today they published an article on how"...

Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) speaks about the anti SOPA/PIPA blackout, noticeably about Wikipedia.

Parts of the Internet will be on strike tomorrow as you may have noticed on this site. Join us while it is still legal.

A few good links:

• List of sites on strike

The short version is: "Take the time to read the blog post from Mocality about how Google does evil.

In even shorter, a company based in Kenya called Mo...

Wednesday night when Stephen found out that the polls predicted him at 5% in South Carolina (in the Republican primaries) he realised things just got real. He announced that he would announce something huge the next day, right after asking his audience (including the TV and torrent audience as we...

A couple of days ago Rick Santorum said:

This year FOSDEM is supported by CodePlex (among other sponsors). CodePlex is Microsoft's vision/version of an "Open Source" project hub.

I don't know what strikes me more, that FOSDEM would accept dirty money or the realisation that Microsoft has completely (or so it seems) changed the...

A friend pointed out this article on how Richard Stallman was right all along and of course, I agree and actually was not part of those who think/thought that RMS is too paranoid/crazy. I don't have a mobile phon...

Louis CK has been distributing his latest show directly himself without any distribution thieves such as I-Tunes and the like. The video is available as a download and this without any DRM attached !

Check out the little note to torrent users</...

The other day I read about how Go Daddy supports SOPA (and loves Microsoft and kills elephants !). Since there has been a massive move of domains out of GoDaddy,