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Opera Unite Browser May Pwn Your Internet Experience 17 Jun 2009 | 06:09 pm
Another hot build of one of the top browsers, incorporating p2p and social networking — but look out — Opera Unite‘s EULA is an eUGLY one. Via FactoryJoe: ——- Not exactly “decentralized” (more on t...
Facebook’s New ToS: Yes We Do Own Your Content 17 Feb 2009 | 08:40 am
On February 4 Facebook revised their Terms of Service, removing a clause stating that user content would no longer be under license to Facebook. UPDATE: Facebook did an about face and reverted to its...
Facebook: By Adding This App, You Agree to Be Used in an Ad 19 Apr 2008 | 10:59 am
This kind of caught me by surprise — I’ve never seen anything — even in the Facebook App Developers’ small print — indicating that a user’s adding of an app equivocates signing away one’s likeness to ...
Are Facebook’s Terms of Service Fair? 29 Oct 2007 | 09:43 pm
There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook and its terms and dedication to privacy over the past 5 months since it launched the F8 Platform which spawned an elaborate and decentralized Developers Netwo...
Virgin America: Selling Tickets without Clearance for Takeoff? 20 Jul 2007 | 07:31 am
Sir Richard Branson’s San Francisco-based Virgin America fleet of A320′s is scheduled to take flight August 8, at heavily discounted rates. But, upon further review (via Orbitz‘ ordering system) it ap...
EMI + Jobs: What’s Really Going On 2 Apr 2007 | 09:51 pm
Personally, I think Steve Jobs is full of it. In fact, I dare him to live up to the rhetoric in his so-called blog post on DRM-free music. We’ll see what really happens at 1 p.m. GMT. Any guesses? U...
MIT Libraries Stand Up to DRM 19 Mar 2007 | 11:13 pm
Always nice to see an institution-wide boycott of DRM (especially at a U.S. university). From the MIT Libraries blog: The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers’...
Is Steve Jobs All Talk and No Action? 16 Mar 2007 | 11:21 pm
We’ve all heard out his “Thoughts on Music” and, well, his words seem to have faded into the ether like the latest terror alert. Free Software Foundation‘s campaign against DRM (defectivebydesign.org...
Invent Something? Now You Can Game the Patent & Trademark Office 6 Mar 2007 | 02:03 pm
The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the most ...
JAVAwhipd = Don’t Let the Sun… 3 Mar 2007 | 08:07 pm
EJ Tower wrote in after hearing audio of Cory’s PWNED seminars @ USC (ongoing). > I’ll try to keep this quick. Been enjoying your pwned lectures a lot. > Just got a Java update today for my computer...
