[American rock band Counting Crows have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, but this success hasn't caused them to overlook the changing landscape of the music business. Today the band releases four tracks from their new album for free on BitTorrent. Talking to TorrentFreak, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says BitTorrent is the new and improved radio. ...]

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The Cabinet Office is currently conducting an important consultation on Open Standards

The question is whether companies offering Free Software will in future have the opportunity to sell their services to the British government. Whether or not British money will continue to be spent on supporting proprietary standards which lock in public bodies, currently hangs in the balance.

The Government has already publicly backed away from a strong definition of what an Open Standard is, and current indications are not at all good. On 12 April 2012, the Cabinet Office published an article indicating that it might lean away from freedom and openness, and towards adopting a definition of Open Standards which would exclude Free Software.

FSFE is working with the Free Software Foundation, Open Rights Group, Open Source Consortium, Open Forum Europe, the Open Source Initiative and others, to ensure that strong responses are submitted in favour of freedom. However, without the help of individuals like you, our voices risk being drowned out by those corporate interests who want to keep public money tied up in their proprietary products.

What you can do ...]

[A senior State Department official has stressed the Obama administration's opposition to a controversial cybersecurity bill ahead of a vote in the House of Representatives later this week.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa) is intended to facilitate sharing of information on ...online threats across different federal agencies and private companies. It has been criticised by both activists and politicians of both Democrats and Republicans for vague wording and insufficient safeguards.]

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Political Memory is a toolbox designed to help reach members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and track their voting records.

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25 de MARZO: "PARON EN FACEBOOK, 24 HORAS". CONTRA LA CENSURA EN LA RED. POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION
de Jose Ramon Blasco Artatxo

Dados los continuos ataques que sufren lus usuarios de facebook en lo que respecta a la LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION, varios colectivos y usuarios individuales convocan un PARON en facebook de 24 horas como protesta por esas agresiones.
DichoPARON comenzaría a las 00.00 horas del día 25 de marzo, finalizando ese mismo día 25 a las 24.00.
Se hace un llamamiento para que en esas 24 horas, no se cuelgue nada en la red, y si unos minutos antes como indicaremos al final de esta nota. El hecho de cercenar lla libertad de expresión, se agrava por ser objeto, quienes estan en esta red, de indefesión continua,ya que se dan los bloqueos sin explicación o con ambiguedades...Son "juicios sumarísimos" sin posibilidad de alegaciones ni pliegos de descargo...]

Against Facebook Censorship, 24h Blackout.

[Se trata de un decálogo sobre técnicas de manipulación de la opinión pública aplicadas a través de los medios de comunicación, elaborado por el lingüística Noam Chomsky.Chomsky es un gurú de la izquierda política norteamericana, profesor del M.I.T., filósofo y ateo, un prestigioso pensador que alguna vez se ha definido a sí mismo como un "anarco-sindicalista".

Como afirma este conocido mío, se trata de ideas intuidas pero que aquí están magníficamente expresadas. Me parecen especialmente lúcidos los puntos 7 y 8. ...]

[... artículo 404 del Código Penal, que establece las acciones que pueden ser constitutivas de un delito de prevaricación: "A la autoridad o funcionario público que, a sabiendas de su injusticia, dictare una resolución arbitraria en un asunto administrativo se le castigará con la pena de inhabilitación especial para empleo o cargo público por tiempo de siete a diez años". ...]

[The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States.

Since 2005, the festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists.

For some of the previous editions, the festival organizers offered torrents of the artist showcases themselves, but since 2008 this task has been handed over to the public.

All of the MP3s are still freely available for download on the festival's site, so it only takes one person to get a torrent up and running. ...]

[... El coste de oportunidad de algo es aquello a lo que se renuncia por conseguirlo. Así de simple. Aunque si realmente fuera así de simple, esta definición no separaría a los genios de lo que no son y evidentemente en la industria cultural la genialidad brilla por su ausencia. ...]

[Que las redes sociales son parte de nuestra vida, es ya algo más que sabido por todos, en la actualidad la llamada vida 2.0 se ha vuelto casi tan importante como la vida 1.0 o presencial y cada vez son más comunes las informaciones con respecto a este mundo. ...]

[You must see this! Does this make you wonder how much footage from prominent world events is fake? How much fake news are we fed? Dictators, terrorists, riot...]

[Introduction

After seeing an attempted comment thread survey on /r/Linux I thought it'd be neat to conduct a real survey using Google Docs. I created the survey and posted it as this thread. I definitely got a better reaction than I expected!

Overall I'd like to thank those who took the time to respond to the survey. You guys did a pretty good job of giving me only good data. There were surprisingly few garbage responses that I had to filter out. Stay classy guys & gals.]

[Out: the Internet. In again: sneakernet.

While Internet speeds stagnate and firewalls proliferate, portable storage media have been screaming ahead in capacity, transfer speed and, most importantly, ease of use. As a result, computer users are bypassing cyberspace and burning discs or toting plug-and-play drives instead. ]

[Below are arguments that can help you debunk the EU Commission's lies on ACTA, which are also relayed by pro-ACTA members of the EU Parliament.

v · d · m Current main action: phone the Members of the European Parliament in the committees working on ACTA, INTA in particular. Ask them to commit to rejecting it, and ask that their committee do the same!
The MEPs have been given a "fact-sheet" on ACTA's supposed inoffensiveness to reassure concerned citizens (that's you). You can find a debunking of these lies here.]

[Monday January 25, 2010
The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round will be the longest to-date, with three and a half days planned to address civil enforcement, border measures, the Internet provisions, and (one hour for) transparency. Over the next five days, I plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that will include sourcing for much of the discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked documents, information on the transparency issue, and a look at who has been speaking out. ...]

*El Acuerdo Comercial Anti-Falsificación es un Enorme Atentado contra Las Libertades Ciudadanas que ha sido 'pactado' en secreto por unos pocos países con innumerables intereses en la Industria...

[By Cory Doctorow at 3:30 am Saturday, Feb 11

Today is the day of global protest against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty negotiated in secret (even parliaments and other legislatures weren't allowed to see the the working drafts), and which many governments (include the American government) are planning to adopt without legislative approval or debate. ACTA represents a wish-list of legislative gifts to the entertainment industry, and will seriously undermine legitimate users of the Internet. It imposes criminal sanctions -- with jail time -- for people who violate copyright, including remixers and other legitimate artists and creators. ...]

[ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP welcome all WSIS Stakeholders to the WSIS Forum 2012 website. WSIS Forum 2012 will be held from 14th to 18th May 2012 and will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and to participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its new format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders.

The 2012 WSIS Forum will be hosted by ITU and will take place at the Conference Centre of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Remote Participation will be an integral component of the Forum details on both onsite and remote participation will be available soon. Onsite participants can network with each other using the imeetyouatWSISForum social networking platform...]

[= A European Citizen's Initiative for a European Charter of the Commons was initiated by the municipality of Naples, with the the first high level technical meeting of jurists taking place recently (in December) at the International University College of Turin.]