Episode 144 - Back in BlackBerry

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Good News:

• Universities are pulling out of Access Copyright early, and then squirting freedom on students.
• Ontario Supreme Court sets precedent for online anonymity.

Bad News:

• Here comes facial recognition technology, whether you want it or not.
• EU Trade Deal smells like ACTA.

Tired Old Media

• Currie strikes a nerve with a link to reddit.
• Apparently pirates are also great customers.. Who knew? Movie/music editions.
• TorrentFreak gives Jamendo some love.
• I believe Mr. Marco called this one...

Mobilicious

• I's the b'y with a world class wireless network launching in 2012.
• Currie's got your back, Jeff Gignac.
• Mozilla steps up to take on Android's faux-pen-ness.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

• Blog comments: the age of rage.
• Refuting UBB: Data and network congestion do not exist. DOES THAT BLOW YOUR MIND?!1!
• One App Store to rule them all, apparently.
• Freedom beards vs. iTards on change.

Pew Pew!

• "Has podcasting become too corporate?" -- asks the BBC.
• Dude writes resignation letter to supermarket. Film at 11.
• Groupon wannabe comes to Canadian backwater.
• Battleship trailer goes online.
• Total Recall films in the T-dot.
• Kevin Smith prepping to empty Canadian wallets. for some reason.
• Venezuelan despot runs country from hospital bed using Twitter.
• Such a great talent has left us so soon...

Shout-Outs

• Can we take a h1t off of that b0ng?

Music

• From the Free Music Real Artists collection (on Jamendo, of course) this week we've got Dj Fab with his track Be Free.

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Up Next

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• Episode 146 will record live next Wednesday, August 3rd from 9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT, right here. See you there.