Category: Books

  • ThePirateBay: some more

    ThePirateBay: some more

    The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…

  • ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.

  • ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…

  • «The alchemy of desire» of Tarun J. Tejpal

    «The alchemy of desire» is a surprising book. Its author, Tarun J. Tejpal, is know in India as an essay writer and an investigative journalist participating fully to the political life of his country. But his first novel is a total success. I had heard an interview of the author in les Matins de France…

  • You’ve got free reading

    This is not because we are on the web that we are not interested in reading newspapers. On the contrary, reading a web site like Roumazeilles.net proves that you may be quite interested, first, in reading. I collected a few web sites where you can get some professional publications that invite you to join their…

  • Baidu, the Chinese self-censored encyclopaedia

    Baidu. This is the name of a company, of the largest Chinese search engine and of an open encyclopaedia just starting now in China. While Wikipedia is actively censored in China, Baidu wants to offer an answer to the need for an open encyclopaedia written by its visitors. Wikipedia let everybody directly modify the articles…