Archive for April 2009

Give us file-sharing licences

Saturday, 18 April 2009

The verdict in which a Swedish court jailed the founders The Pirate Bay site is just the latest attempt by the phonographic industries, film studios and record companies to cling on to the greedy monopoly they have over distribution of audio and visual media. The trouble is, even leaving the price of downloads aside, no […]

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G20: minority of troublemakers on both sides

Sunday, 12 April 2009

One of the protesters taking part in the G20 protests in London claimed yesterday, “The only violence I witnessed that day was police violence.” Clearly he didn’t see the pictures on TV of people smashing the windows of a bank, while crowds of other rioters looked on and cheered. I don’t think the people breaking […]

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