If you’re in the United States you might know that there’s this very confusing copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, that (in short) criminalizes certain means of circumventing copyright protection (i.e., digital rights management, or DRM, i.e., that stuff that wouldn’t let you play your MP3s wherever you want). The DMCA […]
[Via Neatogeek]
This short video, slowed down exactly 300 times, shows the birth and death of a lightning bolt. Enjoy! [Via Scienceblogs]
An Australian university has estimated that just 0.3% of files shared through BitTorrent are definitely legal. But torrent advocates have questioned the methodology of the study. The report (PDF), from the University of Ballarat’s Internet Commerce Security Laboratory, involved a random selection of 1,000 torrent files. Of those: 890 were confirmed to breach copyright 91 […]
Even if you weren’t at Comic-Con this past weekend, you probably saw a good bit about it – especially on Twitter. Though if you missed some of the excitement, here are a few tidbits from around the web, as a follow-up to our earlier more in-depth coverage. Avengers casting. In what seems to be one […]
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Great job Levi’s. Viral advertising at its finest. For those interested in seeing the behind the scenes video of how this was produced, you can check it out right here.
A little something to bring you some peace and quiet on this Saturday morning. Enjoy. [Via Buzzfeed]
A disturbance, I hear you say? Hell yes. Behold: Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be in my bunk. [Via imgur]
[Special Comic Con Coverage provided by Mike Templeton, for those of you who aren’t able to make it out this year, or have never been able to take part. This is a breakdown of the first day of the San Diego Comic Con 2010.] Getting Started The day began by camping out in line for […]