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Spain Says Broadband Is A Basic Right
<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/17/2323254/Spain-Codifies-the-Right-To-Broadband?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)" target="_blank"
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/0900316987.shtml
Entertainment Industry Wants More People To Know About OpenBitTorrent Tracker
The definition of insanity, the saying goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. For the past decade, the entertainment industry has sued one site or service after another that was used for unauthorized file shari
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/1218246994.shtml
Trojan infecting Modern Warfare 2 gamers while they play?
<p>If PC gamers weren’t angry enough about the lack of dedicated server support in Modern Warfare 2 they now have another reason to not like Infinity Ward. The system that replaced dedicated servers, called IW.net, has apparently been comp
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/trojan-infecting-modern-warfare-2-gamers-while-they-play-20091118/
It's The TSA, Not CSI: Actions Limited To Security, Not Crime Investigation
I'm actually writing this post just minutes after passing through TSA security at JFK, where I was stopped to investigate the fact that I have a candle (a gift) in my carry-on luggage. I'm not sure if this sort of thing makes us any safer (I have my doub
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/1156366993.shtml
The More Innovative You Are, The More You Get Sued; Yet Another Patent Lawsuit Over Shazam
Earlier this year, we noted that Apple and AT&T had been <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090522/0325464976.shtml">sued</a> for patent infringement concerning Shazam, the popular service for identifying music. At
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/0932556991.shtml
Activision exclaims CoD:Modern Warfare 2 breaks entertainment industry records
<p>No one can deny thatthe highly anticipated title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 isa major hit with gamers. Since its releaseon November 10, the latest chapter of the first-person shooter saga has apparently set a staggering worldwide sales recor
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/activision-exclaims-codmodern-warfare-2-breaks-entertainment-industry-records-20091118/
Oh No! Nobody Reads! Oh No! It's Too Cheap For Everyone To Read!
We recently wrote about how booksellers were <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091027/0318466691.shtml">freaking out</a> over the "price war" between Amazon and Wal-Mart, whereby they're starting to offer certain
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091102/1016156767.shtml
We See Your 'Copyright Contributes $1.5 Trillion' And Raise You 'Fair Use Contributes $2.2 Trillion'
The copyright industry lobbyists absolutely love to throw around the bogus and debunked stat that <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091001/0154256379.shtml">copyright contributes $1.52 trillion</a> to the economy. That num
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/1002136992.shtml
Cable Industry Joins MPAA In Asking FCC To Allow Them To Stop Your DVR From Recording Movies
Ars Technica has allowed the cable industry lobbyists' top lawyer to explain why the cable industry <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/hollywood-wants-to-own-your-outputs-and-thats-a-good-idea.ars" target="_blank&qu
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/0740516984.shtml
Sony Pictures Having Its Best Box Office Year Ever... Still Blaming Piracy For Killing The Business
Sony Pictures' CEO is Michael Lynton, the guy who recently claimed that <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090515/1301064900.shtml">"nothing good"</a> has come from the internet, and that <a href="http://ww
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/2239296982.shtml
Kotick sells more Activision shares, makes $37 million in two weeks
<p>Does Bobby Kotick know something we don’t? Last week he decided to sell 2 million Activision shares he had held on to since 2000 netting him $20 million in the process. If you offered most people that amount of money they’d pr
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/kotick-sells-more-activision-shares-makes-37-million-in-two-weeks-20091118/
Jenzabar Finds 'Expert Witness' Who Will Claim Google Relies On Metatags, Despite Google Saying It Does Not
It's been widely known for <a href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/andy-beal/search-engine-optimization-basics-part-3-meta-tags.php" target="_blank"><i>years</i></a> that Google does not use metatag descriptio
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/0835176963.shtml
China Says Microsoft Violates IP With Windows, Bars Sales
For years, Microsoft has been among the loudest complainers concerning <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060407/1238229.shtml">"piracy"</a> in China, so it's a bit of a surprise to see things switched around a bit
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1514576979.shtml
ATI Radeon HD 5970 worlds fastest gfx card, but will it fit in your PC?
<p>Today AMD has launched the world’s fastest graphics card in the form of the ATI Radeon 5970. Not only is this card packing some serious performance, but it’s so big you may get it home to find you also need to buy a new case.I
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/ati-radeon-hd-5970-worlds-fastest-gfx-card-but-will-it-fit-in-your-pc-20091118/
Don't Post Comments On StlToday.com Or They Might Tell Your Boss
Via <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=173672" target="_blank">Romenesko</a> comes this little gem of how the online editor of StlToday.com got upset about a "vulgar" comment that was le
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1453586976.shtml
Recording Industry Making It Impossible For Any Legit Online Music Service To Survive Without Being Too Expensive
You just knew it would happen again. Every time the recording industry finally agrees to license a new music service to try to take the "sting" out of "piracy," it demands licensing terms that are ridiculous. From the execs at the la
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1506486977.shtml
Apple rejected another political caricature app in 2008, costing developers $15,000
<p>From the beginning, Apple’s iPhone App Store has been heralded as a place where the small developer can leverage a static hardware platform and a built-in distribution channel to shrug off the expenses and technical difficulties of deve
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/apple-rejected-another-political-caricature-app-in-2008-costing-developers-15000-20091118/
Crackdown On Loyalty Program Scams Shows How Ridiculously Sucessful They Were
It's no secret that there are a bunch of companies out there that trick users into signing up for a regular monthly subscription service that's usually nothing more than an excuse to charge your credit card every month. Many of these are incredibly sneak
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1303456975.shtml
Just Because People Say They'll Pay For Something, It Doesn't Mean They Will
I've been ignoring this one, but people keep submitting it. BCG came out with a report over the weekend on a survey it did, claiming that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16paywall.html?_r=2&partner=rss&
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1529536981.shtml
Let's Wall of Awesome Happiness!!
<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/woah/"><img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/other/woah/woah-blog.jpg" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px auto 20px;" alt="Wall of Awesome Happiness!!" heigh
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/11/lets-wall-of-awesome-happiness.html
Yes, Bad People Use Facebook Too
Reader Tina alerts us to an article about how some students in Venezuela have been <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/print/4593538" target="_blank">arrested for using Facebook to monitor other students' activities</a>, and
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091116/1341346954.shtml
Folks Can Digg Shoes For Needy Kids
With an offer that reminds me of the OLPC "<a href="http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/01/olpc-angering-donors-give-1-get-1-some-day-probably.ars">give 1, get 1</a>" promotion (but hopefully without the delivery comp
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091111/2252556904.shtml
Company Trademarks The Pirate Bay Logo
Quite a few people have pointed to the story about a Swedish company that has <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/iconic-pirate-bay-ship-logo-hijacked-by-private-company-091116/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fee
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/0124256961.shtml
Australian Patent Lawyers Claim Patenting Genes Is Necessary For Biomedical Research
Here in the US, there's an important legal battle going on over whether or not you can <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091102/2114366770.shtml">patent genes</a>. Not surprisingly, we're very much against such a system, w
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091105/1133206816.shtml
Origin PC shows high-end gaming rigs are still in fashion
<p>In this struggling economy one would think that high-end gaming computers were a thing of the past. Not so, according to the people over at Origin PC. They haverecently launched a couple of new high-end computers to make gaming enthusiastsdrool a
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/origin-pc-shows-high-end-gaming-rigs-are-still-in-fashion-20091117/
The Pirate Bay Goes More Distributed, Shuts Down Tracker
So this is interesting. The folks at The Pirate Bay have <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/blog/175" target="_blank">shut down its tracker for good</a>, and switched entirely to a distributed, decentralized system, called D
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/0149566962.shtml
Hands-on: Alienware M15x gaming laptop
<p>After Alienware updated their m17x gaming laptop it was safe to assume that the m15x would get the same treatment. And with the Area-51 m17x becoming the M17x it was no surprise when the Area-51 m15x became the M15x.Now M15x has landed at Geek.co
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/hands-on-alienware-m15x-gaming-laptop-20091117/
Poet's Son Says No One Can Quote Father Without Paying Up... Even Academic Dissertations...
<a href="http://crcb.wordpress.com">crcb</a> alerts us to the bizarre situation where the son (and heir to the copyrights) of poet Louis Zukofsky isn't just brandishing the copyrights against those trying to republish his works, but
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091030/0432006734.shtml
Web Sites from Beyond the Grave
Everybody has them. Web sites that you loved a long time ago (10 -15 years ago, long in Internet years) when the web was still in itsinfancy. We have them, too, and we thought we'd share with you some ofour favorite lost sites.<br /><br /
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/07/web-sites-from-beyond-the-grav.html
2009 SysAdmin Pageant Winners!
<p>When we asked you guys to nominate your favorite sysadmins to our pageant, we didn't expect the tsunami of entries that followed. Among the 1,000-plus nominees: a sysadmin whorepaired a broken Slurpee machine that got in the way of refres
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/08/2009-sysadmin-pageant-winners.html
Red shirts: "We survived Star Trek"
Stardate -313650.56941273477.<br /><br />The ThinkGeek monkeys traveled to the far reaches of the galaxy to watch the newest <i>Star Trek</i> to grace the viewscreen. Despite our red shirts, we found the theater inhabitants
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/05/red-shirts-we-survived-star-tr.html
Thanks for 10 Awesome Years!
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/09/thanks-for-10-awesome-years.html
ThinkGeek... of the FUTURE!
ThinkGeek will be 10 glorious years old on August 13, 2009, and wefigured what better way to celebrate than to surprise you with a newwebsite. But we're too excited to<i> not </i>spill the beans. So, um, here's your preview:<br />
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/08/thinkgeek-of-the-future.html
Attack of the Zombie Dreamcasts
Turns out that some of our new-in-box Sega Dreamcasts delivered to us magically via unicorn are a little love-worn. You might have seen the Gizmodo, Destructoid, and Consumerist posts about it.<br /><br />'Cause, see, we don't really k
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/05/attack-of-the-zombie-dreamcast.html
Punkin Chunkin World Championships
<p>As you may know, we were on a <a href="http://thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/design-geeky-pumpkin-template.html">pumpkin</a> <a href="http://thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/away-mission-pumpkin-patch.html">ann
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/11/punkin-chunkin-world-champions.html
Open letter from Mr. F.M. Tauntaun
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 240px;"><a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/other/tauntaun/getmeouttahere.jpg"><img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/blog/getmeouttahere.jpg"
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/open-letter-from-mr-fm-tauntau.html
Survey results: Non-leather cowboy boots
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/11/survey-results-nonleather-cowb.html
Design geeky pumpkin template, win Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="pumpkin_help.jpg" src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/pumpkin_help.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="m
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/design-geeky-pumpkin-template.html
Away Mission: Pumpkin Patch
<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="patch-timmynom.jpg" src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/patch-timmynom.jpg" class="mt-image-center" style=&q
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/away-mission-pumpkin-patch.html
ThinkGeek Cares (TM) - The NSFW Flowchart
The Internet can be a scary place. Which sucks when you're at work and you want to visit those scary places! We've developed this handy flowchart to help you keep your job.<br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-imag
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/05/nsfw-flowchart.html
They pwned our pmpkins
<p>Timmy's Board of Pumpkin Modification Oversight is pleased to announce its top picks in <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/10/design-geeky-pumpkin-template.html"><b>ThinkGeek's First Perhaps Annual but Let
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/11/they-pwned-our-pmpkins.html
Swine flu jumps to ThinkGeek server; gives away free stuff!
<img alt="timmy_mask.gif" src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/timmy_mask.gif" class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" height="185" width="200" />Think
http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2009/05/swine-flu-jumps-to-thinkgeek-s.html
Gyromancer by PopCap Games and Square Enix coming to Xbox Live tomorrow
<p>Puzzle Quest has long been a dapper little fantasy puzzle game favorite. Launching first on the Xbox 360, the game — which perfectly melded the gameplay of a PopCap-style jewel matching game like Bejeweled with the trappings of a fantas
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/gyromancer-by-popcap-games-and-square-enix-coming-to-xbox-live-tomorrow-20091117/
Star Wars: Trench Run now available on iPhone
<p>Star Wars fans with iPhones are in for a treat today as Star Wars: Trench Run is now available in the App Store.Use your iPhone’s accelerometer to control your X-Wing and shoot down a bunch of TIE fighters before entering the trench for
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/star-wars-trench-run-now-available-on-iphone-20091117/
Mad Catz releases cheaper Xbox 360 Wireless-N adaptor with PS3 support
<p>Last week Microsoft finally released a Wireless-N adaptor for the Xbox 360. You can now get 802.11n support for your 360 console, but it will cost you an extortionate $100.Before you decide to not buy those two games you wanted this month, and up
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/mad-catz-releases-cheaper-xbox-360-wireless-n-adaptor-with-ps3-support-20091117/
Tetris gift boxes for a geeky Christmas
<p>With Yuletide comes inevitable speculation about Santa Claus’ reality bending powers. Certainly, he’s telekinetic, capable of levitating a half ton sleigh and nine, doubtlessly terrified reindeer in the air while he zooms arou
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/tetris-gift-boxes-for-a-geeky-christmas-20091117/
Computer and Video Games previews Bioshock 2
<p>2K Games Boston, nee Irrational Games, released one of the most fully realized philosophical and artistic games ever made with 2007’s Bioshock, as much of a horror survival shooter as it was a parable of Randian libertarianism and a lov
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/computer-and-video-games-previews-bioshock-2-20091117/
Review: Mosquitoes augmented reality shooter for iPhone
<p>Augmented Reality is the new buzzword, and is surfacing in a number of games for the iPhone. If you’re not familiar with augmented reality, it augments the real world with a virtual one, usually by placing information or pictures on top
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/review-mosquitoes-augmented-reality-shooter-for-iphone-20091117/
Valve starts selling L4D and Team Fortress greeting cards
<p>Team Fortress 2 Card Collection 1If you are scratching your head over which greeting cards to buy this holiday season then Valve has started offering a great range of cards through its online store.We’ve included images of the four avai
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valve-starts-selling-l4d-and-team-fortress-greeting-cards-20091116/
Interaktiver Oktoberfest-F�hrer f�r das iPhone
Der ideale Begleiter f�r die Wies�n � der Oktoberfest Guide ist der erste interaktive Oktoberfestf�hrer der Welt!
Link zu iTunes Store
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