Industry finally realises: Pirates are cool

Ask any kid: pirates are cool. The seven seas, treasure, saying “Aaarrrr!!”. All that shit is gold. For years the record industry tried to make downloading music and filesharing sound more dodgy than it was by calling it “piracy.” They’ve now come finally to realise they’ve created a monster. Not only do we all love [...]

Labour, Tories and Lib Dems ganging up to break ur internets!

At the coming election the three major UK parties will work hard to convince you that there’s a big difference between them, and that they deserve your vote more than others. But Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems are all united in their desire to make the internet shite. The government’s Digital Economy Bill [...]

Map of drone attacks in Pakistan

I found the above map via boingboing. It shows attacks by unmanned robotic drones committed by the US within Pakistan. The analysts who produced it write: “Our study shows that the 114 reported drone strikes in northwest Pakistan, including 18 in 2010, from 2004 to the present have killed approximately between 834 and 1,216 individuals, [...]

SSY takes a stand against Skynet

Earlier this year The Guardian reported how a group of police forces and government agencies are working with BAE systems to adapt military drone robots for use in spying on UK citizens. The flying robots are currently used in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world to monitor and mount attacks by remote. When the US [...]

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