Music Industry Asks US Govt. to Reconsider Website Blocking TorrentFreak

Nov 282018
 

At the start of this decade, US lawmakers drafted several controversial bills to make it easier for copyright holders to enforce their rights online. These proposals, including SOPA and PIPA, were met with fierce resistance from the public as well as major technology companies. They feared that the plans, which included pirate site-blocking measures, went too far. The public protests columnated in a massive Internet blackout. This had the desired effect, as the bills were…

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Capitalism, Competition And Microsoft Antitrust Action Planet Mozilla

Nov 282018
 

Kevin Williamson writes an ode to the benefits of competition and capitalism, one of his themes being the changing fortunes of Apple and Microsoft over the last two decades. I’m mostly sympathetic, but in a hurry to decry “government intervention in and regulation of the part of our economy that is, at the moment, working best”, he forgets or neglects to mention the antitrust actions brought by the US government against Microsoft in the mid-to-late…

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