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Episode 174 - #TellVicEverything

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( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Just Anonymous revealing the identity of Vic Toews secret mistress , is all… Digital Rights & Wrongs United Nations to take control of the internets ? Hang on a minnit . EU balks at ACTA . Have I got an internship for you … Cana-duh Vic Toews can’t read . Or doesn’t. Access Copyright, you so crazy . Alberta MPP has got some crazy ideas about roaming charges . Goin’ Mobile WIND & Public Mobile play hardball with the feds . Mozilla ( web ) app store on the way. Zomg, Android/Ubuntu NERDGASM !!1! AppleAppleApple Google’s iPhone tracking . iPad to get Shanghaied ? Be like Mike — Daisey , that is. Tired Old Media Game-changing , huh? Let’s discuss. Pew-Pew! In a way, doctors are hackers too . All your Pinterest pics belong to us . His guiding hand . Wait, who? What? Need an accountant for tax season? There’s an app for that . “Honey, we’re out of house cartridges …” Shout-outs This week we made some dude’s paper.li — clearly we have to do better… Th

Episode 173 - Unlawful Access

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( direct link to mp3 ) Cana-duh “ Stand with us or with the child pornographers …” Twitter account goes all human flesh search engine on MP Vic Toews . So what’s actually in Bill C-30 ? Copyfight Tens of thousands take to the streets of Europe to protest ACTA; here’s a country-by-country breakdown of the numbers . And here’s the response from EU Parliament President Martin Schulz. Goin’ Mobile Canada’s newly competitive cell phone market at risk , says newspaper owned by company that also owns Bell Mobility. Tomia Honen lays out 2011 worldwide mobile industry by the numbers . Who is Tomia Honen …? AppleAppleApple AppleAppleAppleApple Sony . FLQ audits Foxconn — FLA, I mean … Jobs gets a posthumous Grammy . Tired Old Media Crushed filmmaker: “ This is why I pirate …” Ah, so Disney owns Marvel now? That explains this . Pew-Pew! Copyrighting a catch-phrase? That’s Linsane ©… Bitcoin goes bust . This one ticks all the boxes… for the Toronto Sun . If you pay for it they will keep making

Episode 172 - Wanna Unlock My Data Stick?

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( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble That was Kim Dotcom’s head of security, Wayne Tempero, talking to a Kiwi news anchor . Copyfight RIAA goes batshit insane . Here’s a novel idea: Target politicians , not Hollywood. Case in point. Cana-duh Surprise surprise… Debate on C-11 “ to be limited “. CRIA says C-11 needs more SOPA . At what price, TPP ? Goin’ Mobile Big companies, the military look beyond BlackBerry . Nokia’s “ philosophy ” on conflict minerals. Upstart carrier WIND Mobile nabs 67k new subs over holidays. AppleAppleApple The engage-o-meter is through the roof on this one … Apple has a fanboi problem ? GET OUT! BCE & Rogers bend over, spread cheeks for Apple TV . Pew-Pew! Your weekly dose of cyberwar rhetoric . Of Path , Pinterest and privacy. Rogers: We’ll stop throttling sometime this year . A case for unlocked data sticks … UK remains realm of the fuckbags . StatsCan makes good on its promise to release 2011 Census data. Shout-outs I’ll gladly take my lumps from Steve Cz

Episode 171 - Suck On It Curiosity!

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( direct link to mp3 ) Censored Twitter to selectively censor tweets by country. Google paves the way for a not so World Wide Web . Fight back with this WordPress plugin ! Copyfight Pirate Bay founders officially fucked (but the torrents keep seeding). Hollywood cries poor ( but their bank accounts keep a-greening ). “You wouldn’t download a car…” But soon you might be able to . Cana-duh The fight for mobile rights … to broadcast an American football game . Ontario teens send Lego man into space . Good for them. Goin’ Mobile So Currie saw Blood In The Mobile last night… AppleAppleApple WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CARRIERS ?!1! Tired Old Media Monty Python to reunite for “ CGI & live action farce “. JoBlo something something . Pew-Pew! Oh look, the author of SOPA is a copyright violator . And Rogers says truth-in-advertising law violates its freedom of expression . This just in: Android users are playas . Giggity. And BB users? Well … Slow news day at NY Times: The rise of the to