Seems the UK Trading Standards department just don’t understand open source or freeware. The Mozilla foundation was contacted recently by a lady in the UK Trading Standards office stating she had encountered some nefarious businesses who were selling Firefox. Egads! She went on to request confirmation that this was indeed in violation […]

The RIAA is now escalating their attack on the only person (a mom from New York) so far out of nearly 14,000 people to actually stand up to their mafia techniques of scaring people into paying them their “ransoms.” With details being withheld, it seems that the RIAA is somehow using non-public and private […]

In the words of a Boing Boing writer, “It’s sad to see what happens when you give some people a tin badge and a cap”. Two men wearing some type of uniform and baseball caps emblazoned with “Homeland Security” recently walked into a library in Bethesda, Maryland, demanded the attention of all patrons using […]

The intelligent folks at the RIAA is at it again. They are now claiming that ripping CDs for use on your iPod or other MP3 player is not fair use - regardless that they admitted as much in a previous suit last year.

Boing Boing has a post about “dangerously strong magnets“. Some of the magnets are amazingly strong. So strong that they have warnings about breaking your arms and messing with aircraft equipment! I’m thinking about getting one of the sculpture kits (found at the very bottom of the page) for fun and profit…ok, […]

The RIAA has yet again screwed up in their tactics of protecting musicians copyright rights — or rather their gestapo-like pursuit of stomping out the rights of people to listen to legally purchased music in any manner they desire and ensuring their continued profit at the detriment of both musicians and their fans.