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( direct link to mp3 ) The Annual Stocking Stuffer Episode In the tradition of Stocking Stuffer episodes past, the boys all pitch in for a holiday-themed Drop-Boxing Day episode. It’s a shorter episode than most, so grab a cup of holiday cheer and enjoy! We’ll be back with a live episode next Wednesday, so join us as we ring in 2012 with Episode 167. (Incidentally, Mike does not do what Anth asked. Not in the least.) Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on Twitter: @acurrie @anthonymarco @mikevardy @shanebee

( direct link to mp3 ) Oh Cana-duh Bell to stop Internet Throttling . Related: Dyscultured to stop linking to HuffPo… Canadian parents, you so crazy . Copyfight Homeland security and (wait for it) the RIAA caught downloading torrents . And in case you were wondering, nothing for CRIA.ca … yet. SOPA says follow the money . That money comes from us, you know. Navel-Gazing 2011 The parable of RIM . The Canadian who wrecked Nokia . My kind of holiday wish list . Goin’ Mobile Great news: The other guy blinked . Potentially not so great news (could be, though). Mobile “phone” is now a misnomer . AppleAppleApple Alarmist headline of the week: If Apple wins, we all lose . Not content to sue device makers, Apple goes after the W3C . But I’m totally getting that graphic novel when it comes out… Pew Pew Who will save us from the app-ocalypse ? Like we didn’t see this coming … SRSLY, @ $500 UR CUTOFF . How is this even a story ? Don’t call it a comeback . Seriously, don’t. Channeling FARK: T

User Message/Tweet When @therealmichaelm RT @anthonymarco : RIM turns down Amazon merger advancements: sources http://t.co/B02u9jbk #dys165 really RIM? You dumb A**es about 14 hours ago @anthonymarco RIM turns down Amazon merger advancements: sources http://t.co/C0uUhrO4 #dys165 about 15 hours ago @Dyscultured RT @thenextweb : Tomorrow’s SOPA hearing has been cancelled http://t.co/IHf5ZjhD by @CBM on @TNWinsider #dys165 about 16 hours ago @acurrie Damn. RT @MobileSyrup : WIND “in talks to buy Mobilicity”, says Bloomberg http://t.co/vNaG6K5i #dys165 about 20 hours ago @jjarmasz Suddenly glad I went with WIND… #dys165 RT @MobileSyrup : WIND “in talks to buy Mobilicity”, says Bloomberg http://t.co/qHkjxDGU about 20 hours ago @Dyscultured What to expect at CES this year (and in Canada 6-12 months later). | @TechCrunch http://t.co/ER9aU3iS #dys165 ^AC 1 day ago @Dyscultured Bell To Stop Internet Throttling… who said what now? http://t.co/y9wTnPW6 #dys165 1 day ago @Dyscultured RT @

User Message/Tweet When @mikevardy The Parable of RIM http://t.co/ROgs8qw1 #dys165 #mobile about 3 hours ago @anthonymarco RT @Dyscultured : First you ignore them, then you laugh at them, then you troll their comments… http://t.co/pJNQn4g5 #dys165 ^AC about 5 hours ago @Dyscultured Last Friday was a tough day from RIM. | http://t.co/m76gyXcn #dys165 ^AC about 7 hours ago @Dyscultured First you ignore them, then you laugh at them, then you troll their comments… http://t.co/pJNQn4g5 #dys165 ^AC about 8 hours ago @acurrie File this under “first world problems”… http://t.co/kjV6CEqD #dys165 #pewpew about 21 hours ago @b0ngh1tt3r RT @Dyscultured : RT @Openattitude : Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard | Techdirt http://t.co/xparYeZS #dys165 about 23 hours ago @Dyscultured RT @Openattitude : Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard | Techdirt http://t.co/xparYeZS #dys165 about 23 hours ago @acurrie The other guy blinked: Rogers to offer

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble That was the sound of sex on Toronto’s Subway system, courtesy of World Star Hip-Hop . Your Privacy & Rights Are An Illusion Byron Sonne: Worst. Set-up. EVER . Google+ facial recognition equals…? EU lends a hand to activists elsewhere . And if that doesn’t work … Copyfight I know what you downloaded, Bell, Rogers & Shaw —  and also Fox, Sony & Universal . EFF’s week of action against online censorship, aka SOPA . Pulp Fiction in chronological order ? Isn’t that missing the point? Lous C.K. groks the Internet . Tired Old Media It’s the worst two weeks for movies in last 10 years . Merry Christmas! AP’s “ new distinctiveness “. Oh look, another streaming music service that’s going to suck… Goin’ Mobile FBI helps themselves to Carrier IQ data . How is none of your concern. WIND Mobile’s Holiday Miracle returns tomorrow. See kids? Telcos are dumb pipes too . AppleAppleApple Moto K.O.’s AppleAppleApple in Germany. Patent troll to the rescue

User Message/Tweet When @anthonymarco Now McDonald’s Is Rolling Out Its Own TV Channel: McTV http://t.co/VHk48vne #dys164 25 minutes ago @anthonymarco Police test for riot laser that can temporarily blind people… Oh, this has to be good news. http://t.co/y4fU66uI #dys164 about 7 hours ago @garnerhaines RT @DecencyLegion : “Do as we say, not as we do!” signed — Hollywood Studio pirates http://t.co/0m7HNnFB #dys164 about 9 hours ago @acurrie A #pewpew but a good one: Google Extends Free U.S. & Canada Calling Through 2012. http://t.co/laLN0A21 via @DSLReports #dys164 about 9 hours ago @Dyscultured …and the there was this. #piracy #dys164 about 16 hours ago @DecencyLegion “Do as we say, not as we do!” signed — Hollywood Studio pirates http://t.co/0m7HNnFB #dys164 about 17 hours ago @ShockBuckPics RT @anthonymarco : Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater turns profit after four days. http://t.co/tAVXy77M #dys164 about 19 hours ago @anthonymarco Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater

User Message/Tweet When @anthonymarco “Worst two weeks for movies in last 10 years” …worried they can’t bank on an Alvin & the Chipmunks movie. http://t.co/K1ciAV6P #dys164 about 1 hour ago @ghabuntu RT @openattitude : Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox | TorrentFreak http://t.co/xi2RYrsB #dys164 about 2 hours ago @Openattitude Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox | TorrentFreak http://t.co/9XI3AxkK #dys164 about 2 hours ago @Dyscultured MPAA Head Chris Dodd on #SOPA: China’s the Model | The Weekly Standard http://t.co/p5Xu7doc #dys164 ^AC about 3 hours ago @psema4 RT @acurrie : Works for me… RT @BoydNeil Get out of Klout – the why and the how: http://t.co/MDB8iD1h via @ScarboroughDude #dys164 about 3 hours ago @acurrie Works for me… RT @BoydNeil Get out of Klout – the why and the how: http://t.co/MDB8iD1h via @ScarboroughDude #dys164 about 3 hours ago @Lukefromcanada RT @anthonymarco : CRTC orders Bell to share all mobile sports conten

User Message/Tweet When @alexblackie RT @Openattitude : Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA | TorrentFreak http://t.co/MGi8BBkJ #dys164 18 minutes ago @Openattitude Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA | TorrentFreak http://t.co/MGi8BBkJ #dys164 24 minutes ago @mikevardy No Copyright Intended http://t.co/1rZRR1vw via @gruber #dys164 # copyright about 19 hours ago @mikevardy That Louis CK has the right idea… » http://t.co/5j5QkAvH #dys164 #torrent 1 day ago @Dyscultured Why can’t they show this kind of initiative when it comes to handsets? http://t.co/kHb5Uy7H #rimrimrim #dys164 ^AC 2 days ago @Openattitude Apple makes deal with patent troll. | TechCrunch http://t.co/VUsnKUi8 #dys164 2 days ago @anthonymarco You get a +K 😛 RT @victriviaqueen : @Dyscultured another nascent social network, this one built in Victoria: http://t.co/NsGzZtpo #dys164 2 days ago @victriviaqueen @Dyscultured another nascent social network, this one built in Victoria:

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble That was Evgeny Morozov , debunking cyber-utopianism for RSA Animate . Privacy Watch (from behind the bushes out back) Big Barack is watching you . The good news: Wikileaks is back. The bad news … It’s a World Wide Web The EFF weighs in on India’s censorship debacle . And why they might be wrong . Khaki Pants Facebook’s most shared articles of 2011 . <- WARNING: links to Facebook! Tired Old Media Remember those annoying “You wouldn’t steal a car” type anti-piracy ads? Yeah, they pirated the music . Industry experts choose Canada’s best films (because nobody else will sit through them). Don Cherry’s ratings take a hit . See what they did there? Goin’ Mobile Rogers, Telus, Bell, Virgin, Fido & Videotron all confirm that Carrier IQ is not present on their devices — except for Rogers . What’s in a name , seriously? Mobilicity is down. Not the website, the whole network . AppleAppleApple Samsung gets some free design advice . “We had Carrier IQ bef

User Message/Tweet When @Openattitude The Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Indian censorship debacle. | @eff http://t.co/yE1nvjBB #dys163 about 1 hour ago @acurrie Back up by tomorrow? That’s not good… http://t.co/4Slnha8n #dys163 about 2 hours ago @acurrie Interesting @HowardForums discussion of spectrum auction, with link to indecipherable Industry Canada page: http://t.co/qkuMIvsQ #dys163 about 2 hours ago @Dyscultured Oh Facebook, you so crazy: http://t.co/deVrujfe WARNING – link leads to Facebook, make sure to clear your cookies after… #dys163 ^AC about 4 hours ago @prairiecunning RT @DecencyLegion : Most of Canada’s “Best Films of 2011” haven’t been seen by a real audience. Who determines our “culture”? http://t.co/pUjDPUFL #dys163 about 6 hours ago @DecencyLegion Most of Canada’s “Best Films of 2011” haven’t been seen by a real audience. Who determines our “culture”? http://t.co/pUjDPUFL #dys163 about 6 hours ago @Dyscultured Too bad we don’t do website of the week

User Message/Tweet When @katiemjy RT @anthonymarco : Big Barack is watching! – “Canadian biometric data, iris scans, fingerprints end up stored in US databases.” http://t.co/iGnivHT9 #dys163 34 minutes ago @psema4 RT @anthonymarco : Big Barack is watching! – “Canadian biometric data, iris scans, fingerprints end up stored in US databases.” http://t.co/iGnivHT9 #dys163 35 minutes ago @anthonymarco Big Barack is watching! – “Canadian biometric data, iris scans, fingerprints end up stored in US databases.” http://t.co/iGnivHT9 #dys163 41 minutes ago @kiwinerd RT @jjarmasz : Not sure who’s running robford.ca but I think we have a new #topoli cyber hero. Screencap of the current page. #dys163 http://t.co/trMZO5ZQ about 1 hour ago @jjarmasz Not sure who’s running robford.ca but I think we have a new #topoli cyber hero. Screencap of the current page. #dys163 http://t.co/trMZO5ZQ about 1 hour ago @b0ngh1tt3r RT @anthonymarco : India asks Internet giants to censor the web http://t.co/Eh64sng

User Message/Tweet When @winterman There goes the neighbourhood… “ @anthonymarco : RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken http://t.co/IL9T9C9l #dys163″ 1 day ago @anthonymarco RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken http://t.co/r6sMISeF #dys163 1 day ago @DecencyLegion #dys163 Just too perfect. http://t.co/wvKVrsTD 2 days ago @Rileygestwa RT @alexblackie : RT @jjaron : Remember those annoying “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy ads? They pirated the music http://t.co/gcw5UH69 #dys163 2 days ago @mikevardy Hell, yeah. http://t.co/yu2OLLF4 #appleappleapple #dys163 3 days ago @b0ngh1tt3r RT @Dyscultured : #AppleAppleApple Offers Some Helpful Suggestions to Samsung for Avoiding Patent Issues. http://t.co/BhOby7RP #dys163 ^AC 3 days ago @alexblackie RT @jjaron : Remember those annoying “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy ads? They pirated the music http://t.co/gcw5UH69 #dys163 3 days ago @Dyscultured #AppleAppleApple Offers Some Helpful Suggestions to Samsung for Avoiding Patent Issues. http://t

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Just some audio clipped from the worst Cyber-Monday fluff piece EVER … Oh Cana-duh StatsCan’s free-for-all , and what it will cost . No 700MHz auction yet — what’s that about? Bullshit incumbent telco lobbying , that’s what. Fight the Power! Darket is real, at least on reddit … Distributed search engine , you say? From a technological standpoint SOPA is already beat . Tired Old Media 3D + 8-bit = $$ ? Didn’t they already do this for that dude what played Gollum? You had me then you lost me, Elvis Costello . Goin’ Mobile What smartphones will be like in 2012 . RIM’s new source of revenue . Facepalm. Here’s some video of Carrier IQ doing its thing. Pew Pew Newsflash: Thai culture is different from ours . (or is it?) Goddamn fucking Netflix is down ! Goddamn fucking Craigslist is down ! If it blows up it must suck, right AppleAppleApple ? Art imitates life and vice versa . I’m guessing this is Anthony’s link . Music This week we’ve got Young Galaxy wit