Another Dev Kicks Apple
Fed up with Apple’s dictatorship another quality App developer gives apple the finger and embraces Android!
The story:
Tim Bray Throws His Hat Into The Android Ring Because He Hates The iPhone
As Apple goes on the offensive against Android, it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer chose the opposing side. Tim Bray, [...]
Huge Win For Sanity In Spain!
And the news that made a LOT (Millions?) of people happy… the first article from TorrentFreak
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
After early calls to shut down a Spanish file-sharing site were dismissed, music group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at the full trial. But, the outcome for them was nothing short of [...]
EU Gives ACTA The Finger – In No Uncertain Terms (Updated!)
News like this makes us proud to be in Europe, and proud to have voted for the Pirate Party thus putting two of our reps in Parliament.
Three stories, two trom TD and one from BB, starting first with TD:
EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes
Last week, there were reports that the [...]
Europe Unites Against ACTA!
From Ars and Nate Anderson
The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives from all the major parliamentary coalitions introduced a resolution demanding that the European Commission release all negotiating texts, inform Parliament about the negotiating process, and absolutely refuse to countenance any sort of “three strikes” [...]
Time to Invest In Customer Awareness.. Not Lawsuits or Draconian Measures
From Zeropaid
Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon.
Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of [...]
Another Pirate Party In The Polls!
With a momentum that seems impossible to stop another Pirate Party is heading to the polls!
From TF:
Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament [...]
About: Why?
eZee.se is not your regular tech news site (anymore),
We have shifted from writing all our articles ourselves to instead linking to a host of sites and occasionally writing a few original articles ourselves – as time permits.
Why?
Quite simply because the news, as it is, is the the same, but the articles on the various sites [...]
Shorter Copyright More Benificial To Society… No Sh!t Sherlock!
When the creator knows that she cannot bank on a single copyright for her entire life… actually, past her live and in some cases past her grandchildren’s lives she has more incentive to create more.
Ah! Simple logic, who would have ‘thunk’ it?
New Economics Paper Explains How Shorter Copyright Stimulates More Music
In the recent debate [...]
Mariah Carey, Brains To Match Her Big.. Well, You Know!
I am definitely not a fan of Mariah Carey or her music – in my humble opinion the only thing really worthwhile she did musically was…., Eminem.
But…. there’s no denying she is a very very successful singer and has loads of fans that would probably kick my behind for writing the above, and… the lady [...]
Spain Makes Net Access A Right
I have a love hate relationship with Spanish, I never really picked it up in School.. but love Spanish music even though I can’t understand what the heck they are singing about.
Add another point for the love side! Spain has taken the correct step forward and made internet access a right, just as Finland did [...]
