According to Techdirt Piratebay was sold to a public Swedish company for about 8 Million US Dollars. Huge news and good for the Piratebay folks. Wonder what this means for the service and its uers though..
Entries from June 30th, 2009
id Software Sold
June 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Feeling: contentid Software, the legendary makers of Doom, Wolfestein 3D (Wolf 3D), Quake has been sold to Zenimax Media, owners of Bethesda Softworks, creators of games like Oblivion, Elder Scrolls IV. Image via Wikipedia id Software holds a special place in my heart for the countless hours of entertainment they gave me through Wolf, Doom and [...]
Tags: Doom · First-person shooter · Id Software · Quake · wolf 3d
links for 2009-06-24
June 24th, 2009 Comments Off
How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments « iRevolution (tags: security Privacy censorship technology internet howto tools reference activism surveillance)
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Success = Monopoly = Antitrust? Why the MS antitrust case is just wrong
June 22nd, 2009 5 Comments
I came across an interesting article which articulates much of my own thoughts on the entire Microsoft Internet Explorer antitrust saga. The article on a blog JCXP which I came across for the first time. The blog seems to be by MS fanboys supporters is calling for a boycott of Opera Soft, makers of the [...]
Tags: anti-trust · IE · internet explorer · ipod · itunes · law · legal · microsoft · monopoly · opera · windows
My Thoughts on Opera Unite
June 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
Coming a bit late but I wanted to jot down my thoughts on Opera Unite. My first thought, it is an awesome concept with the potential to change the way the Internet is used and also a huge boon for the us users, but in a different manner than envisaged by the Unite team. But [...]
Tags: darknet · data · dht · information · opera · p2p · sharing · unite · web_server
Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store – A short story
June 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Feeling: blank Listening to: Metallica – Master of PuppetsRead a trippy short story recently – Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store. It is a short science fiction-fantasy about, hmm, Books The story is written in a nice easy style at a good pace. It features takes on the recession, layoffs, google and other topics with a hint of geek [...]
Tags: Science Fiction · short-story · story
Tempus Fugit
June 13th, 2009 8 Comments
Listening to: -Human – MetallicaOh yes it does.. It was just sometime ago that I was going through the whole application process. And now it seems to be that time again. Work had been hectic the past few weeks. Completed a major task at work so things are better now and seem to be slowing down [...]
Tags: application · apps · Books · fuze · mba · mp3 · Music · sandisk · sansa · Work