Week In Review 2012W02
Samsung announces SwipeIt. You can’t make this stuff up. Meanwhile leaked stuff says Apple rolled over for India. Apple says otherwise, Samsung is shipping a crate of files to India. Acer is cloning Samsung cloning Apple.
Finland starts blocking Pirate Bay and Holland gets the block too. That happens as we learn a high ranking german law officer used spyware on his daughter. Unlawfull intercept seems to be common in Germany. And get this, RIAA claims an IP address isn’t enough to identify them. Too bad they won’t be able to read this disconnected from the Internets. On more deuchebagery, PL118 is still moving forward in Portugal, the music industry is sueing the Irish Govt for not doing enough and MPAA attacks Ars Technica for defending piracy.
And remember, a UK kid is getting extradited to USA to serve hard time cause he was running a link site. That’s where this has escalated. Is this the world you want your kids to grow up on ?
