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“Fouad Mourtada, a 26-year old IT engineer has been held under arrest in Casablanca since February 5th for “villainous practices linked to the alleged theft of the identity” of King Mohammed VI’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on the popular social networking website Facebook. Fouad appeared in court on Friday February 15th. The trial hasContinue reading “Moroccan man faces up 5 years in jail for impersonating prince”

boingboing: “Random House Audio — a division of Bertelsmann, one of the largest publishing conglomerates in the world — has announced that it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.”

InfoWorld has an article about the implications of attacking whistle blowers as more info surfaces about the closure of wikileaks.

nettime:  “Mary Flanagan is an artist and media theorist invested in developing games for social change and performance/action installations. Based on her interests Flanagan produced [giantJoystick] in 2006, and gallery {AT} calit2 is proud to present this working large-scale game-interface from February 4 to March 17 of 2008.  [giantJostick] brings together Flanagan’s diverse interests asContinue reading “Mary Flanagan Interview”

The blogosphere is abuzz with reports that the main wikileaks DNS page is unavailable due some sort of restraining order, because of reports published on the site about offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.

Techdirt: UK ISP providers plan to use users’ clickstream data in order to custom the ads to the tastes of their users.  How very nice of them.

slashdot: “Scott Jaschik sends us to Inside Higher Ed, where a librarian explains why the tradeoffs we’re facing with social networking sites — e.g. privacy vs. a space to build one’s personal “brand” — echo issues faced years ago by academics who publish in journals that their institutions’ libraries can not then afford. The authorContinue reading “Facebook, Google & Intellectual property”

nanocr: “After a lot of hard work, we’ve finally released doubleTwist desktop. The goal of doubleTwist is to simplify the flow of media across devices and social networks. To give an example: say you shot a video with your Nokia N95 cellphone. How do you send that video to your friend and make sure he’llContinue reading “Doubletwist Desktop: Say Goodbye to DRM”

The trial of linux programmer turned wife murderer is being live blogged by two reporters: “The Hans Reiser trial has been underway for some time now, the prosecution is moving towards the end of its case. For those interested, not only in the outcome of the trial, but a detailed description of the trial, includingContinue reading “Court TV…uh…I mean court live blogging”

TechDirt is reporting that all the coverage the classic bittorent site is actually increasing its traffic, looks like the Danish ban is doing more harm than good by its standards.