Episode 197 - Be Vewy Vewy Quiet...

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Preamble

• Mission Control reacts to Curiosity’s landing on Mars, via YouTube.

Copyfight

• Dark days for Demonoid.
• New French government not impressed by Hadopi.
• MPAA uses “surrogates“…?

Priva-see

• How to protect yourself in the cloud.

IP Nightly (too obscure?)

• Shit’s about to get real over Cana-duh’s postal codes.
• Patent wars: the silly and the sleaze.

We’re The UN, Bitch!

• Should The United Nations control our Internets?

Goin’ Mobile

• Fear and loathing… of Huawei.
• Two takes on the Chatr debacle.

Thanks For The Memory

• The TRS-80 turns 35.

Pew-Pew!

• Mobile phones are ruining stand-up comedy (except that they’re not)!
• When WiFi hotspots go rogue.
• Creative Commons makes choosing copyleft easier.
• A million new torrents from the Internet Archive.

Shout-outs

• Freedom beards… fight!
• Have you joined r/dyscultured yet?

Music

• The Wavers with their free track, Surf-o-nauta.

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