Once again, we find an overwhelmingly blatant illustration of how and why the DMCA is a bad law. "Creation Science Evangelism", a right-wing fundamentalist christian group led by convicted felon and tax-evader Kent Hovind, has manipulated a loophole in the DMCA, forcing Youtube to remove videos that are in the public domain. Why? Simply because the CSE does not like what their detractors have to say.
The way the DMCA is structured, companies like Youtube are required by U.S. Law to remove content immediately, without the necessity for review. This places the (rather expensive to fight) legal burden on the alleged infringor of the DMCA , in this case The Rational Response Squad. Their account was terminated as a response to rebuttal of Kent Hovind's insanity .
the video below is not recommended for younger audiences
Without fail, the video we embedded was taken down after a certain time. It was also for the same for the same falsified reason. The whole community is getting very upset with this. Hopefully people will write their congressmen in order to solicit some change in this law that is being used for censorship and other illigitimate reasons.
We recently discovered a new website, TV-Links , which hosts links to several thousand streaming movies, television shows, anime, cartoons, documentaries, and music videos. It is not difficult to surmise why its traffic has skyrocketed in just a couple of months. Alexa has this baby ranked #214 in the world. Questionable legality? Perhaps. Popular? DEFINITELY. Welcome to the machine, MPAA...
Trent Reznor, leader of band Nine Inch Nails and iD Software soundtrack guru, went public last week with some rather choice words for the recording industry and its treatment of customers in the land down under. At a concert in Sydney, he said this from the stage;
"Steal it. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it
to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another
these mother****ers will get it through their head that they're ripping
people off and that's not right."
His words make further comment from us unnecessary.
One year ago today we relaunched FastSilicon.com, powered by a new open CMS framework and a lot of desire. One year later, we are still growing and evolving with the technology world as it continues to accelerate at a phenomenal pace. This is, for us, truly our dream. We would just like to take a minute to say "Thank You" to those who have helped our site grow and prosper. Let's look forward to another great year!
It is time to look at an older piece of video hardware that has become very affordable. Today we are testing some value oriented ATI X1300XT video cards to see what a little Crossfire action will get you.
Boards with dual PCI-E slots are commonplace these days, so why not?
Let's see what we can do here!
