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[Free Culture] Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use

The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.
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[Law] Leaders Wanted

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[Politic] Do something about ‘Repeal377a’, Don’t just talk

The lesson I learn from the US Democrat and Republican endless non-objective arguments:
Reframe from ideological argument
Because ideological argument are too strong (and intoxicating) to oneself and those who have similar political perception, and too weak (and stupid) to those who doesn’t. The purpose of dispute is to facilitate communication so as to close with an [...]

[GNU/Linux] Linux got sued

Original Story: Linux vs. Software Patents : first round — A lawsuit company, IP innovation, that has just recruited two former Microsoft executives, has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell regarding the idea of multiple desktop workspaces implemented on Linux.
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[Free Culture] Illegal File Sharing Propaganda - Now Infesting SP

Weak User Risk Argument based on small possibility — p2p client without knowing it is a p2p system. Based on this weak justification, the brochure draws another possible outcome — system exposed to malicious application, which most of the time Windows System are Vulnerable to. This entire argument basically summaries “This application is risky because [...]

[Featured] US court orders movie ‘pirate’ to switch to Windows

I bet you see this everyday, Windows.
Original Story: A pirate who was sentenced to five years in jail for illegally downloading a movie from a Bittorrent site has been told that, under the terms of his probation, he has to switch to Microsoft Windows. read more | digg story

[Politic] Pre-emptive ‘sexual roaming’ law being studied

The Ministries of Law and Home Affairs are looking at a British ’sexual roaming’ law to curb the activities of sexual online predators who target minors aged below 16. They are exploring on whether if it can be made an offence if a persons chat up with a minor and meet up with the intention [...]