Internet Filtering: New Zealand joins the growing crowd

Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from May 2007 to September 2008. The system is now running with...

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation. With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec. To sit on this technology or merely use it as a bargaining chip...

torrents.ru no more

Russian prosecutors have closed domain delegation of torrents.ru which is a 4-30m users torrent tracker. Arguably the largest one in .ru zone. In a couple of hours the tracker came back under another domain name. The Russian Internet is full of speculations though the idea is clear, western copyright fighters just have got another bone from Russian government. Once pirates haven Russia is eager for western money and...

Another project to be doomed?

Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun’s already-decimated APO (Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun’s Accessibility Program Office.) Open Letter to Oracle here Now it’s more like offense if they close it ...

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat. Here you go. Another “useless” thing made by Sun bites the...