Episode 159 - You Gave RIP New Meaning

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Your Freedom & Privacy Are An Illusion

• Cop misled judge in Byron Sonne case.
• Canadian internauts should have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
• Darknet. It's time.

Tired Old Media

• Viacom so devasted by piracy that CEO gets $50 million raise. Sounds about right.
• Music labels to cease production of those shiny discs with rootkits on them.
• Chuck D. says paid downloads are licenses, not sales.

Khaki Pants

• Will the real Dyscultured Google+ Page please stand up? Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and while neither really matters.
• Klout is like herpes.
• Celebs shill on Twitter? NOWAI.

Mobilicious

• CWTA lays down the numbers on the impact of our upstart carriers.
• But the CCTS begs to differ.
• Google answers to Microsoft lawsuits (not really).

AppleAppleApple

• Apple are the Ferengi of the mobile phone industry.
• And it's because Android phones are cheap pieces of shit, obviously.

Pew Pew!

• Here's a little secret: You don't need an app to use Gmail.
• Rakuten gobbles up Kobo -- then presumably wrecks havoc on small Japanese fishing village before disappearing into the sea.
• Older people also read the Globe & Mail, I reckon.
• Movie exec apologizes for shit movies. We need more of this. A lot more.
• Canadian pays $31K for John Lennon's tooth.
• Haven't the good people of Detroit been through enough?

Shout-outs

• Everybody follow Canadian Linux legend Adam McDaniel.

Music

• Another killer track from Rathole Radio #64, here's German rockers Shearer and their track Day's End.

Dyscuss

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Up Next

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