Back in October of 2004, Julie Amero, a substitute teacher in a Connecticut middle school found herself in a bit of a bother. Well, actually that’s all it should have been but it led to Amero facing a 40 year prison sentence and the case has highlighted the intense neo-luditism that continues to prevail in not only the US justice system but justice systems the world wide.
We’ve been using Joost.com around the office now for a while. The online video broadcasting app works well enough and the quality of the video is quite good. Overall it’s a really good user experience but it all comes down to content and that’s something that’s been lacking thus far.
Jack Valenti may be dead and buried, but even from the great beyond he seems to be working his particular brand of lunacy. It seems that there’s a hex number floating around that unlocks the encryption code for High Density DVDs. We can argue all day as to the rights and wrongs of this but as far as the law is concerned this is very much a big no-no.
If there’s one thing we’ve always said it’s that Estonians are the hippest cats in the world. We certainly didn’t any further evidence of this but then the Estonian bank, SEB went ahead and told its customers they could put any image they liked on their credit card. So Mr. Otto de Voogd being the king of hip Estonians went ahead and got all Firefox on it. I’m sure Hicks is beaming with pride.
