Category: government

120,000 Petition President For Secession of Texas From United States

Oh how wonderful is the internet? Everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes their online petition to secede from the union on the president’s We The People Site ( Basically Yahoo answers- except all of the answers come from the Whitehouse, and all of the questions need 25,000 askers). Over 114,000 people signed on to the petition, but I’m willing to bet that at least...

What Happened To Pandora?

Pandora is having some serious troubles. It seems to most like they should be making money with the constant advertising interrupting their music selection, but with the current and outdated copyright laws, they’re hemorrhaging cash.   At $.99 a song, music is cheap…For one individual. But imagine buying thousands of songs for millions of unpaying customers? Welcome to the world of bullshit copyright math. Now, Pandora doesn’t...

Rumblefish- Scam, Scum, or Or innocent Victim? Part 1

Does any company deserve the right to profit off of works in the public domain by stomping on another’s rights? No, but that doesn’t stop Rumblefish, a music distributor from doing it. Earlier this year Rumblefish made headlines by using Youtube’s Content ID system to take down a video of a man talking with birds singing in the background. There was no music anywhere...

Google Penetrates Switzerland

Switzerland- One of the most private countries on earth. People who live in Switzerland enjoy their privacy, but Google still managed a surprising win this week. Google recently appealed a ruling that Google comply with privacy requirements including 100% accuracy blurring (not 99.9%) of people’s faces and license plates in order to operate their street view in Switzerland. Honestly, I’m impressed. Switzerland is famous...

How One Company Stole Pixar’s Intellectual Property from 10 Films and Didn’t Get Sued

Vídeo Brinquedo- Ever heard of it? Probably not, but if you look at their films, you’ll probably have the feeling you’ve seen something similar before. Every movie they’ve ever made has been stolen from Pixar, Disney, or another major studio. Wanna know something even more unbelievable? They haven’t been sued. Mothers have been sued by the big studios for playing music as their kid...