What would Benjamin Franklin have thought about P2P file sharing? We'll never know, but a new book portrays him as a skeptic of intellectual property and an advocate for the common ownership of inventions and ideas.
Source:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/benjamin-franklin-founding-pirate.ars
CONSTANTA, Romania - The pirate cook smuggled food to the terrified hostages held by his gang off the Somali coast.
He bought them cell phone cards.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/19/somali-pirate-cook-saves-_n_618293.html
It seems, two of the basic tenets of the early Internet Era - free and unlimited - are waning.
For the die-hard pirate movie downloaders and YouTube fanatics, for those who would rather sever a digit than type in a credit card number to pay for online content, this will be bitter medicine.
But the plreality is, free just can't compete with tiered.
Source:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/goodbye-unlimited-free-pay-iphone-news-hulu/19512163/
