You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…” Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just […]
One year in jail and fines. Read the full story, including a discussion of the larger legal implications, here. The four founders of The Pirate Bay, an online site for free sharing of music and films, were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each.Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, […]
I don’t do music file sharing. Getting more music than I already have doesn’t interest me, but the Pirate Bay trial certainly has much larger implications for contemporary copyright enforcement across the board. Read the full story here. See the Pirate Bay Wikipedia entry here.