Australia finished setting up its great firewall and began filtering their Internet (like much-accused China) this year censoring protests, pornography, and anything else the government-appointed censorship board found to be amoral. The secret, unpublished list has continued to grow as more and more websites are filtered and more reasons to filter are invented. Censorship in [...]
Our friends across the Atlantic seem to get slammed with the worst of ideas from their legislators. First there was the Pirate Finder General with his near-unlimited power to hunt down music and film pirates. Now the content industries have found a way to force the consumer to pay collectively for the faults of a [...]
Both ArsTechnica and The Wall Street Journal are reporting on major studios that have begun toying with their digital release models. Studios have always been hesitant to jump into the pool of digital content and prefer to test the water before running away screaming. However, as profits of DVD sales continue to decline they find [...]