Episode 164 - Make Good Shit and Stop Suing Everybody

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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!

Pew Pew

• McTV. Would you like fries with that?
• Didn’t we cover this already?
• If it’s from a consultancy called Prophet then it must be true…
• Airborne RIM execs might as well have had sex with each other.
• Too little, too late for webOS.
• Some pew-pews are good news: Google extends gree U.S. & Canada calling through 2012.

Music

• We know, it sucks but it’s kind of important — it’s MegaSong, via TorrentFreak and Jesse Brown.

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