Whatever qualms people might have about piracy now, posterity will have no doubts whatsoever. It's not simply that the supposed harms of piracy to culture are exaggerated, as more and more evidence suggests: it's that in the long term, piracy is actually indispensable for its preservation.

Floppy disks, which were once used as the medium du jour for personal computers, have a decidedly finite lifespan: estimates for the data retention abilities of a floppy range anywhere from one year to 30 years under optimal conditions.

The choice is stark: follow copyright law, and watch decades of computer culture literally fade away on their unreadable floppies, or save them for posterity - and break the law.

Take a look at the iTunes App Store, a 500,000 app repository of digital culture. It’s controlled by a single company, and when it closes some day (or it stops supporting older apps, like Apple already did with the classic iPod), legal access to those apps will vanish. Purchased apps locked on iDevices will meet their doom when those gadgets stop working, as they are prone to do. Even before then, older apps will fade away as developers decline to pay the $100 a year required to keep their wares listed in the store

If you see strict DRM and copy protection that threatens the preservation of history, fight it: copy the work, keep it safe, and eventually share it so it never disappears. 

Some people may think ill of your archival efforts now, but they’re on the wrong side of history: no one living 500 years from now will judge your infringing deeds harshly when they can load up an ancient program and see it for themselves.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120126/09565417551/why-piracy-is-indispensable-survival-our-culture.shtml

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It's like we've worked for two entire decades
Developing something that gives each of us
The ability and access to express ourselves as individuals
What happened to our freedom?
It seems that this is yet another force field the government has inflected upon us to enable more control
More power
Why do we have the least of the say?
Why is it that the uneducated of the internet are the ones calling all the shots
The ones that don't understand the concept of the world wide web
Each and everyone of us is a product of the internet
The internet is a product of us
It has grown with us and nourished within our generation
And as it stands now I will not let it be taken control of by some power hungry motherfuckers

Fuck S.O.P.A.!

The internet allows us a chance at gaining more access to tools
Which would in term speed the process of learning, communicating and sharing
It enables us to gain awareness of what's happening across the globe
And share what we see or hear
Social networking sites granted us the ability to share information that works easier
Songs, pictures, videos
How could something as simple as posting a link generated by the internet
Be classified as copyright infringement
Therefore forcing sites to feel obligated to take them all down
What would the internet really be without reblogging, reposting, retweeting
The internet was created to make lives easier, not harder
The internet was developed, to break our limits, not create them
Oh yeah

Fuck S.O.P.A.!

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He isn't an American citizen and he isn't even in America, but he broke all these American laws, let's kill the Australian citizen! – Fox News

Great idea you fat fucking retard.

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Not a day goes by when I’m not asked about whether or not the social media bubble will finally burst. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare, Pinterest, this all has to be too much right?

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This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means. The sensation of being overwhelmed by information has been linked to every media revolution. With every new innovation and the mass adoption of disruptive technology, the volume of information available to us grows exponentially. With media now so pervasive and portable, information, of any focus, is available, on demand, and more importantly, resides in our hands to create and consume at will. We are, for better or for worse, always on. And this is both part of the problem and part of the solution for how we evolve as individuals and as an information society.

Social media has gifted us a new democracy. And with it, the ability to connect to people around the world and create, share, and devour knowledge, entrainment, and irrelevant information at will. It’s as intimidating as it is beautiful. We have passed the Attention Rubicon and there is no turning back. The towers of social media will not come crumbling down upon the foundation of a former reality when we or the generations before us led a much simpler life. The key for us now is forged in self-control or some form of aspirational governance that focuses our connects and interactions.

Indeed, there is a very real human cost of social connectivity. But, the symptoms of information overload are only a reflection of our inability or lack of desire to bring order to our chaos. See, we are the engineers of the media levees that prevent overflow.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/23/the-fallacy-of-information-overload/

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Hoje comentei no Twitter sobre a Intranet da boo-box e pediram pra ver como ficou. Seguem imagens de algumas páginas da Intranet. O conteúdo é apenas para demonstração.

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Veja o trailer de:
- Gran Torino 
- Por um punhado de dólares http://youtu.be/zk7XHtvDZ_E

Entenda mais sobre SOPA e PIPA http://bit.ly/wOTxP3

Pergunta da semana: "Qual seria sua sigla idiota para um projeto de lei?"

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White House statement presented a fairly detailed critique of the measures and concluded, “We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”

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