Episode 223 – I AMA SHAT DISTURBER!
(direct link to mp3)
Preamble
- Just Celine Dion singing in Mandarin for Chinese New Year.
Cana-duh
- Bill C-30 is finally dead. Or is it?
Privacy
- Cryptocat author finds himself with backdoored computer. Links to relevant high-level discussion here.
Copyfight
- TPB AFK. Watch on YouTube, or BitTorrent that shit like a boss.
Patently Absurd
- So patent trolls are after podcasters now.
Khaki Pants
- William Shatner exposes the darker side of reddit.
Going Mobile
- “Customers don’t want caps on monthly bills”, say douchebag carriers.
Pew-Pew
- BlackBerry’s new creative director tweets from iPhone, blames hackers.
- From the obvious department: The Real threat to Internet Piracy.
- G4 rebranded as (wait for it) “The Esquire Network“.
- AOL’s main revenue source is dial-up service. Still.
Shout-outs
- Mark Blevis schools us on tithing.
Music
- Hayden’s got a new album out and Currie paid for the lead-off track, called “Motel”.
Dyscuss
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> child porn and censorship
Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party wrote a good article explaining why the current so-called “child porn” laws are completely flawed (Falkvinge recommends the use of the term “child abuse imagery” to frame the issue accurately).
In Bits Are Not A Bug, Aaron Swartz (who committed suicide last month, which you guys covered in your show) also talked about the absurdity of the current laws regarding “child pornography”:
And here’s part of an RT show, in which Jacob Appelbaum (a tor developer) calls the argument for removing child porn images from the internet “bullshit” (2-minute video segment), a must-watch for anyone who thinks about this issue, whether you agree or not.
Oh, my last comment disappeared…?
Maybe it’s a keyword filtering thing…
Yeah, got caught in the spam filter. FTFY.