We haven’t split up yet, just in case you’re wondering how that small country named Belgium has been up to lately. Turns out it wouldn’t be such an easy task after all. I read this article in the local paper that stated that if Flanders would separate itself from the rest of what would still [...]
I was just reading about the first RIAA trial against Jammie Thomas for downloading pirated music. One of the things that’s pretty mind boggling about it is that the jury is composed out of people who hardly have any computer knowledge at all. This is something that I’ve seen mentioned before in trials related to [...]
Even though I’m not really into politics that much, currently we are having a very interesting political episode going down in our little country. If you know Belgium you also know that the country is split up into several parts, making things rather complicated to govern. As the federal elections took place a few months [...]
It’s not just the Germans that don’t get how the internet works. The Belgian copyright organisation Sabam won a case in the Brussels court against Scarlet, one of the Belgian internet providers, to stop illegal p2p music downloads. The idea is to use filters on all p2p traffic and block illegal downloads. That might work [...]
The German government is making some odd waves lately. I posted about their odd internet censorship policy before affecting Flickr users in Germany, but there’s two posts on Hadez’ blog that really made me raise an eyebrow to who’s in charge of one of the most powerful countries in the European Union. First there was [...]
Flickr is dealing with a lot of censorship fuzz lately, some legit and some not imo. For instance in this case where the sex blogger Violet Blue got her pictures censored because her account didn’t make it through the adult filter is kinda shitty. Her account wasn’t packed with porn or anything, but as someone [...]
Since I’m scoping out the local Belgian blogosphere lately I read about a project that’s trying to measure the influence of the Belgian, or to be more exact, Flemish blogs and put them in a neatly ranked list. The project is called Metatale and it proves once again that measuring popularity (which is basically what [...]
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