Privateering
March 25, 2008
It’s been almost a month since the shutting down of the popular file-sharing and streaming-vid site “stage6,” as mentioned in this techcrunch blurb. It was supposed to be a huge blow to the piracy network online. Heh heh, yeah right. They couldn’t defeat the Hydra if they tried–I’ve seen many more similar sites rise up in just the past week.
Web 2.0 has the idea in our heads that this content should be free–especially when we would have watched said content except for some business or obligation that came up. Merely removing the one site did nothing as many people rushed to fill the gap left in the availability dept. of free media.
Florida? Election Problems? NO WAY…
March 11, 2008
You just have to laugh.
It seems The University of Florida has a contraversy concerning student elections, as I read in this Wired article. Apparently, students will sue because online voting wasn’t allowed. The U of F supreme court ruled the online voting unconstitutional since online voting could facilitate bully-voting and peer pressure.
I never really thought of that as a problem until reading the article–especially since we have online voting at Miami. Of course, here, few really care about student gov. elections so I doubt that much coercion of voting occurs on our campus.
