Last week, Verizon won a federal appeals court ruling overturning the "net neutrality" rules protecting consumers and ensuring Internet providers can't seize control over what you can see and say online. But the FCC can fix this mess — The Court left the FCC an opportunity to write new, stronger rules, but the Comission won't do that unless they hear a sustained public outcry.Sign our petition demanding that the FCC protect the open Internet today! #netneutrality#KeepTheWebFree
UK Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail * TorrentFreak
During a debate on the UK’s Intellectual Property Bill, the Prime Minister’s Intellectual Property Adviser has again called for a tougher approach to online file-sharing. In addition to recommending “withdrawing Internet rights from lawbreakers”, Mike Weatherley MP significantly raised the bar by st…
I’m so glad I don’t go to movie theaters any more…
FBI Drags Google Glass Man From Theater on Piracy Fears * TorrentFreak
Google Glass is expected to transform the way that people interact with data and communications but for one unlucky user a paranoid reaction to the device ended up becoming a huge time waster. After wearing a turned off and prescription lens-equipped model to the theater, a man had it torn from his…
You want to know why there is no upward mobility in this country? You can't even think about Moving up when your too busy trying to stay afloat. Minimum wage needs to be raised and school needs to be affordable then we will have upward mobility in the country…
