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Society and privacy in 2006

OpenFlix: Another web site only distributing public domain movies (so download here is fully legal). Old movies indeed, but some of them are quite good.

F u t u r e M e . O r g : Funny little service offered by FutureMe.Org, send an email in the future. You write a message, provide an electronic address and a date of sending. On the preset day, FutureMe.Org will send the message. You can write yourself in the future...

Jacques Chirac wants P2P but not its software tools: Not very clear that warm declaration from the French President. He joins the debate about P2P and Internet downloads just when the MPs will start talking about music downloading again (a place where he was not expected - he previously misnamed a mouse as a rat or "mulot"). At least, he pushes the idea that the interest of the user should be taken into account.

Priority: Chinese market: This the rightful conclusion of observing that Microsoft just admitted censoring the blog of a Chinese journalist upon request by the Chinese authorities who did not like whistle blowing about corruption. Another company had led the way in ensuring that the Chinese laws and regulations are applied to the letter: Yahoo! had accepted to deliver the contents of email exchanges of another Chinese journalist (no sweat, just do not think about the consequences for the guy ni a country where freedom of expression is only tolerated on Tienanmen square : 10 years in prison for the Internet user).

What's freedom of a single man when you have to conquer such a wonderul market? Soviet dissidents were happy having to deal only with Staline police and not the companies of the capitalist world.

Public Domain Torrents: A web site where one can find downloadable movies (using a P2P Bittorrent software program) but, this time, they are public domain movies (so download is legal and the MPAA has nothing to look into). Old movies indeed.

Furthermore, they are encoded using DivX, and there special downloads for your PDA.

 

 

 

 

Society in:

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2006

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Other links

• An excellent freeware source : NoNags.
• Tom's Hardware Guide is THE reference web site about computer hardware. Can be found in various languages:
• English THG
• French
• German
• Italian
• etc.

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