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Preamble

• Yes Men commandeer TPP event in Dallas.

Cana-duh

• Byron Sonne cleared of all charges.
• C-11′s back on, with rejected amendments and limited debate.

Khaki Pants

• Four reasons why Facebook IPO is “muppet bait“.
• “.Pirate” domains now available, thanks to PPoC deputy.

Tired Old Media

• Further proof that piracy is killing the movie industry.
• Buh-bye, Globe & Mail.

Goin’ Mobile

• Of course, Currie was using a mobile wallet before they were cool…
• Bell Mobility faces $100 million class action suit over prepaid service.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• C-30 is dead. No it’s not.
• G-20 report slams police for trampling citizens’ right.
• Haven’t had a JoBlo link in a while…
• Great idea, will never happen.

Shout-outs

• This tweet is all kinds of awesome.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• It’s Beyoncé for hipsters! This week we present The Elwins, with their cover of “Countdown”. Download it for free right here.

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Preamble

• Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian tells CNN why he’s not buying Facebook stock.

Priva-see

• FBI seeking to wiretap pretty much all social media.
• Twitter, at least, won’t comply without a fight.

Cana-duh

• Qu’elle surprise… Tory computer has robo-call stuff on it.
• Those who don’t learn from the past are — wait, where’s our past?

Copyfight

• isoHunt to Canadian Court: “Record labels a threat to open internets“.
• They can copyright people now…?

Goin’ Mobile

• SMS no longer the biggest cash cow for carriers.
• Web 2.0 is dead. All hail the age of the mobile app.

Thanks For The Memory

• RIP Maurice Sendak.
• Peace out MCA.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• ACTA is “effectively dead“.
• TPP effectively on the ropes.
• Self-driving cars effectively here.
• London, 2012 effectively Berlin, 1936.

Shout-outs

• No idea what this means (I’ve been away), but comments are always welcome.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• Fuck Viacom. We’ve got The Beastie Boys on The Chappelle Show — the audio, at least.

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Preamble

● And just when you thought your neighbourhood was violent. (Or not.)

Priva-see

● @victriviaqueen says Facebook wants your organs. ● But Google wants everything else.

Copyfight

● Censor the web! No, really, it’ll be great!

● It’s all about the Pentiums and the rules and the stuff we all should know about.

● @jjarmasz says SOPA, so-good.

● @b0ngh1tt3r says if you want to get that movie a day after release in theatres? Yah, not to much anymore.

Cana-duh

● Currie ain’t here. But Conrad Black will be.

● Cancel your cable, it is all about the Interwebs now!

● But @DecencyLegion and @ShockBuckPics remind us that you already did!

● LA Kings, you can suck it long and hard. Don’t forget a towel.

Goin’ Mobile

● Go Nokia, go!

● Yah, forget it with those ideas of flexible virtual keyboards.

● IKEA goes mobile! Yah, I don’t care either.

● Maybe he’ll go to jail before you pay.

#appleappleapple

● No love for you, Dropbox. NONE!

● Will Apple play nice with Samsung?

● Apple hates paying taxes.

● @b0ngh1tt3r bitch slaps Tim Cook.

It Ain’t News Unless It’s A Pew Pew

● Dyscultured took in 210 million last weekend, so, no way will any films match our prowess.

● Is this a robot?

● Hey, @b0ngh1tt3r wonders if you want some software. Well, do you?

● @chim0 thinks our podcast is a prat.

Shout-outs

● You guys are the greatest …

Music

● Our music tonight is the world famous, Eamon McGrath! with the track Great Lakes

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The Shownotes are coming …  they should have been here 

Music

• Facebook Epic Rap by Dan Bull

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Preamble

• From the YouTube launch (!) of IKEA’s UPPLEVA.

Copyfight

• Canada Post goes batshit insane over Postal Code “IP”.
• Why Access Copyright is a bad deal.

Cana-duh

• Supreme Court — or Santa’s elves — strikes down wiretapping law.
• Robocall Inquiry leads to Conservative party HQ.

Tired Old Media

• CBCmusic.ca stands its ground, in defence of free.
• Is CTV worth paying for? Bell thinks so.

Goin’ Mobile

• Ontario to stand with Manitoba & Québec on carrier douchebaggery.
• Balsillie’s BlackBerry vision: Unheeded or ill-advised?
  

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• IKEA to debut smart furniture. Seriously.
• Dick Clark has left the building.
• Infographic: Where politics and Hollywood collide.
• Another way to read this: Teenagers are MORANS.

Shout-outs

• Jim Henshaw: “Where’s my flyer royalties?”
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• Zomg, Professor Kliq has a new album! Here’s the lead track, Crystals.

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Preamble

• A soft-sell of NSTIC from this YouTube vid. More below.

Priva-see

• Evil acronym of the week: CISPA.
• And one acronym to rule them all: NSTIC.

Cana-duh

• Halifax studio – and possibly 22 Minutes — to be axed by CBC?
• But the beleaguered broadcaster may have an ace up its sleeve: satellite radio.

Copyfight

• 5,000 artists line up for promotion on The Pirate Bay.
• Proposed Chinese copyright term is three months!

Edumacashun

• Poland open sources textbooks. There’s a joke in there somewhere.
• Disappointing ROI for OLPC in Peru.

Thanks For The Memory

• RIP Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore.
• How the walled gardens of yesteryear are like the walled gardens of today.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• M$ now owns Netscape IP. Oh noes!
• Calgary mayor the latest darling of Twitter and reddit.
• No shit, Sherlock:  Rogers contracts unconscionable, says lawyer not paid by Rogers.
• Only in Canada: The quarter that costs thirty bucks.
• MintChip: It’s like BitCoin, but stupider.

Shout-outs

• It’s true, you know… They really do.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• Great Lake Swimmers channel Neil Young in their new track, The Great Exhale.

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Preamble

• Seth Godin has Jian Ghomeshi all flustered — more on that at the link below.

Cana-duh

• How about them CBC cuts, eh?
• Things may get even worse by 2025.

Blast Into Books (my parting gift for Mike)

• Writers should stop writing knowing that they might no longer get paid to write. Write?
• For the rest of us: Amazon data proves that copyright doesn’t work.

Goin’ Mobile

• To no one’s surprise, the CRTC is also clueless on wireless.
• Upstart carriers undercut big three by 40% on voice 80% on data (!) and other fun facts.

AppleAppleApple

• iPhone hipsters none too happy about Instagram for Android.
• Maybe this kindred spirit across the pond will spur Mike to get his iPad 3.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• They shoot, we score! DDG goes all hockey stick.
• Billion-dollar open-source software company gives back to the community.
• NY Times on file sharing?
• Vanity Fair on SOPA & PIPA?!

Shout-outs

• So, no Dyscultured podcast network then?
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• Just for Mike it’s Bend Sinister with their track, The Same Things.

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Preamble

• Vic Toews explains how hackers are a threat to us all. A threat to us all!

Khaki Pants

• Facebook stands up for users’ rights? That don’t sound right…
• Oh, they’re also trying to expand their trademark on the word “book”. All is well.

Cana-duh

• DDoS delays NDP leadership e-vote.
• TPP vs. ACTA. Fight!
• Election fraud update: Lawsuits filed to annul results in seven ridings.

Goin’ Mobile

• Here come the Nano-SIMs.
• Canada cedes domestic smartphone market to iPhone, maintains status as mobile backwater.

Tired Old Media

• Indie filmmaker: Please pirate my movie!
• AnandTech takes seven pages to tell us what we already know: Blu-ray is doomed.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• Racist Hunger Games fans are disappoint.
• Our kind of reboot: Creative Commons Canada re-launched.
• Android user smokes Windows Phone, gets disqualified.
• The classy thing to do would be to not dredge this up again…

Shout-outs

• Holy shit, we’ve got comments!!1!
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• This week we’ve got Zeus — with their track, Are You Gonna Waste My Time?

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Preamble

• A choice sound bite from Copyright Math — the toast of TED, and rightfully so.

Cana-duh

• 10% of Canadians use Netflix. Woo?
• How that last Federal Election could have turned out.

Copyfight

• Megaupload seizure null and void, says Kiwi judge.
• Wanna share files? Watch the skies.

Goin’ Mobile

• 10 notable telecom deals in Canada — see a pattern here?
• Don’t mess with Texas, or at least their smartphone address books.

AppleAppleApple

• A dividend, you say?
• Well, this is unexpected…

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• Another comedian discovers Internet distribution.
• Angry Birds jumps the shark (rather than crashing in to it to advance to the next level).
• RIM, Samsung sued over emoticons.
• Is that your muscles flexing or is your tattoo connected to your cell phone somehow?
• Cell towers disguised as trees (as opposed to hangers for large advertisements).
• KONY creator not so good with criticism.

Shout-outs

• This one goes to Mike Vardy, for obvious reasons.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• A Paper Bag Records pick this week, PS I Love You with a track from their new EP, “Sentimental Dishes”.

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Preamble

• “…It’s just waiting for us to stop at nothing.” ??

Cana-duh

• Our man on the Hill Russell McOrmond joins us for a C-11 debrief.

Khaki Pants Special Report

• Is KONY phony? If you’re interested, Uganda Rising is a better and more timely doc from 2006.

Copyfight

• UK offers sacrificial lamb to appease Hollywood.
• Despite that, here’s yet another reason why file-sharers won’t be thwarted.

AppleAppleApple

• eBook collusion not an iPad app.
• About that “Apple helps free software” myth…
• This is also pretty fucked up.

Tired Old Media

• Netflix’s latest disruption is — oh, never mind…
• Genie noms for best pic suck dick.
• A cinematic leap for the smartphone?

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• Haven’t had a JoBlo link in a while…
• House parties used to be rockin’, not trendin‘.
• Web-based FOSS collaborative publishing platform ftw!
• Homeless hotspots…?

Shout-outs

• A special shout-out this week to our web designer Alex Blackie, who’s recovering from dental surgery.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• This week we’ve got Bend Sinister and their track, Give It A Rest.

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