Did you ever use VHS tapes as a kid? I still remember popping one into the VCR and never ceasing to be amazed that an entire movie could be contained within a little black plastic box. They were crucial to my consumption of media — until one day they weren’t. VHS came and went, and now it just…
It’s been all over the news and it’s been especially big on the internet. I see resistance to SOPA and PIPA in social media, and other places on the internet that share information. I don’t like SOPA and PIPA either. Yay. What exactly is SOPA and PIPA? Well, m’dears, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)…
This week, a popular blog caught federal staff downloading content illegally. “Busted: Canadian Parliament hosts BitTorrent pirates,” reads the Jan. 1 entry on TorrentFreak, a blog dedicated to the popular file sharing program. They investigated the downloads associated to the House of Common’s IP addresses, an internet ID number, and found that there were a…
And I don’t mean those guys who wear an eye patch and set sail on a ship. I mean the people who steal things for personal interest or gain, people who choose to download software or products rather than spending money. But the thing is, those kinds of people might not even understand the cost…