Response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton - Huffingtonpost

This is in response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton's article on Huffingtonpost.com. This is Michael Lynton, "I'M A GUY WHO DOESN'T SEE ANYTHING GOOD HAVING COME FROM THE INTERNET, PERIOD." At a panel...

Banned books celebration promotes freedom of expression

"By Cynthia Henry Inquirer Staff Writer Friday will feature some unusual story times at local libraries, when passages from...

RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA

the internet police are coming to your ip soon..."RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA Enforcement - ACTA Thursday, 26 June 2008  These are the...

Knock-Offs: Another Type of Piracy?

Intellectual property is one of the fiercest battlegrounds in the web-enabled world, as record labels, movie studios, software developers, and fans of entertainment slug it out over business models, the concept...

Why 'Tropic Thunder' shouldn't be seen

This piece is based on a commentary piece from Timothy Shriver of CNN, and is not necessarily my own views.The controversy over Tropic Thunder continues to escalate today. When protestors turned up the Los...

Facebook Was in Talks to Buy German Social Site

"When Facebook sued the German leader in social networking, StudiVZ, last month, it contended that the company had illegally copied Facebook’s “look and feel” with similar graphics and features. “A great deal, if not all, of StudiVZ’s success is due to its copying...

Politics: We all need to move past the hate

We all come across as patronizing at times. That's human nature. Yet to suggest in this day and age that "a certain type of liberal intellectual elitist" is responsible for the division between left and right is...

Film piracy may be source of terrorist funding

Film piracy may be a primary source of funding for terrorists and other organized crime groups.  This is according to chairman of the Philippines' Optical Media Board (OMB) Eduardo "Edu" Manzano, who came up with the conclusion after his group yielded illegal drugs and...

Seven Indians among top 100 intellectuals

""Anintellectual is someone whose mind watches itself, said French-Algerianwriter-philosopher Albert Camus; turns out that someone is keepingtrack of intellectuals too. The latest issue of the influential Foreign Policy magazine has identified the world's Top 100 "public...

Pope hosts public stadium Mass

They started arriving as dawn was breaking. Thousands of people wanting to take part in a public mass with the Pope. They bought t-shirts for $20 and posters of His Holiness for $10. By 9:30am when the Pope...

Are literary tastes a relationship deal-breaker?

Ever dumped someone because of the books they read? Here's a writer who's not only willing to admit it, but who has found others willing to 'fess up well."We’ve all been there. Or some of us have. Anyone who...

Male musical tastes more 'intellectual': BBC music guru

What a silly generalization to make, no?  I know lots of guys who listen to the Cure."The great gender debate has once more been dragged out to play today, the topic this time how far a person's sex...

VP says Indonesia should not be plagiaristic nation

""We should create things of benefit to the nation with our own brains instead of plagiarizing other nations` intellectual work," Kalla said in remarks at a function marking the presentation of International...

ASEAN signs AEC blueprint to create single market by 2015

"ASEAN countries have a combined population of 580 million with a gross domestic product of US$1.1 trillion. In 2006, the bloc`s trade with the rest of the world reached US$742,657 million compared to US$383,854 million in 2002. Meanwhile, trade among ASEAN countries rose to...

Civil liberties group challenges US visa ban for Muslim intellectual

"Ramadan, one of the world`s leading scholars on Islam, was forced to turn down a tenured position at the Univertity of Notre Dame when the US government revoked his visa in late 2004 on the basis of the so-called...

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