Travis sez, “The Pirate Party of Canada has uncovered that IP addresses from within the RCMP and Industry Canada are used to download copyrighted material. The point here isn’t that they are downloading, it’s that because all we have are IP addresses we don’t know who is actually doing the downloading.”
Two minor characters from my novel Makers have apparently come to life and written an article for 3D Printing Industry. These two people are patent lawyers for Finnegan IP law firm, Washington, DC, which I don’t recall making up, but this is definitely a pair of Doctorow villains (though, thankfully, I had the good sense [...]
Alan Wexelblat comment on the news that Nintendo has claimed “monetization rights” to fan videos on YouTube that feature tips on playing its games. Some of these videos are incredibly popular, and while their use of Nintendo’s creations are often fair use, Nintendo gets to use YouTube’s monetization system to advertise on all the videos: [...]
Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko (a British citizen who was assassinated in London by two former KGB agents who poisoned him with radioactive polonium) has accused the British government, Secretary of State William Hague, and PM David Cameron of sabotaging the coroner’s inquest into her husband’s death. Hague and Cameron intervened in the coroner’s [...]
Do you remember the Associated Press’s 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license fees (for quotes as short as 12 words, yet!)? Didn’t work. Since the launch… we heard absolutely nothing about NewsRight. There was a launch, with [...]
Maker Faire Bay Area is this weekend, in San Mateo, California! Pesco, Mark and I will all be there, and I’m sure many of you reading Boing Boing will be, too. Mark has been posting some great behind-the-scenes snapshots on his Instagram. And of course, the #makerfaire hashtag is a good way to peek at [...]
Among the most recent video posts you will find on our all-new video archive page: • Child sneaks camera into school to document gross food. • The art of brain hacking. • Grizzly bear eats video camera. • 11 year old and his 3D printer. • HOWTO make glowing Converse. • Monkey shares lollipop with [...]
http://vimeo.com/64607150 Here’s a clip from an upcoming documentary by a fourth grader who snuck a camera into school to document his horrible school lunches and the vast distance between the food that the school claims to serve and food he and his friends end up eating. Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New [...]
OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. OMICS cites India’s terrible Information Technology Act as the basis for its threats. However, it [...]
The Public Domain Review has a nice gallery of plates from Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield’s 1902 book “How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India,” which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: My main purpose in [...]
Star Trek star and noted homosexual George Takei responds to bigots who believe in restricting the right to love to straight people only: an image gallery on Imgur. Oh, snap, oh glorious snap.
Molly sez, “For the past two years I’ve been researching activist uses of distributed denial of service actions. I just finished my masters thesis on the subject (for the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT). Guiding this work is the overarching question of how civil disobedience and disruptive activism can be practiced in the current [...]
All this month, we’ve been telling you about a fantastic challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life. Called Armchair Taxonomist, it’s an opportunity to research and write about different plants, animals, fungi, and microscopic organisms — and, in the process, help move scientific information from places where it’s hard for most people to see, to an [...]
I was skeptical of the NY Post story alleging that rich New York private-school parents use a service that lets them hire disabled people to act as line-jumping Disney World guides. Now Lesley, a Disney-obsessed local, has published a rebuttal pointing out that such a service wouldn’t work well because there are lots of rides [...]
