Archive for Internet Culture
The Movie and Music Industry’s War Against their Customers
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Voltage Pictures and the movie the “Hurt Locker” have been making headlines this week after a lawsuit was filed against 5,000 John and Jane Doe defendants for illegally downloading the movie.
Whenever I see these lawsuits I have to wonder what the point is. Now I understand that downloading a movie is against the law and that when you do it you are committing a crime essentially but these people who are sued are rarely charged with crimes just civil suits. Civil suits are expensive and are a long and hard process so usually a positive end result is necessary to want to endure it. These cases in the past end in huge judgments that the defendants would never have the means to pay in a lifetime. So I have to wonder the point?!? Read More→
Why Facebook and Farmville Need to Breakup!
Posted by: | CommentsSo I will admit I have a small Zynga and Facebook game addiction! When I want a 5 minute break I love to pop onto my farm or my cafe and just zone for a few. Now I know for some people this makes no sense but for some 70 million others, you know exactly what I am talking about. So I am sure you are wondering why I think Facebook and Farmville should split, it’s simple….they don’t need each other anymore and each is causing harm to the others brand at the moment. Read More→
How to Avoid Your Computer being used in a Cyber Attack
Posted by: | CommentsLately there has been a lot of talk about Cyber Attacks and big companies and government agencies being compromised. Now Cyber Attacks are nothing new but huge companies such as google being hacked kind of is.
To get a better understanding of what is different and why it’s different this blog article does a good job of breaking it down. Read More→
Bank of America Online Outage
Posted by: | CommentsToday I tried to log into my Bank of America Online Banking Center to find I could not access the site. At first I assumed the internet was down because certainly Bank of America was not down. But alas it was. I waited a few minutes and tried again. Nothing same error. So I turned to Twitter. Read More→
Why the Pay Per View News Site Model Won’t Work
Posted by: | CommentsYesterday I read this article about how 90 days after NewsDay.com put up a pay wall it had managed to gather a meager 35 subscribers. And I have to say I wasn’t surprised. I am sure no one was…I mean how far fetched is the idea that people won’t be that keen on the idea of paying for something that is available all over the place for free. So if this seemed so elementary to myself and pretty much the whole rest of the world sans 35 people, why isn’t it that obvious to Rupert Murdoch one of the most successful men in the world? Read More→
Google Says Don’t Be Evil to China
Posted by: | CommentsIn a pretty strongly worded blog post today. Google announced it would be considering pulling out of China. Google says that mid-December it received a high level attack that was specifically targeted at gmail users. In digging a little further it seems it was not just gmail users in general it was specifically Chinese human rights workers. Google does all but call out the Chinese government for executing this attack itself. They believe the hacked emails were phished and also say it was happening on other providers as well. So some serious finger pointing going on from Google. Read More→
