Stuff from 28 February, 2008
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 28 February, 2008.
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 28 February, 2008.
Would buy again!
Dan, of Dan’s Data (naturally), wrote a really informative article, called The Great Apathetic Revolution. It’s about this ridiculous situation: it is illegal to back-up copies of DVDs, games, etc. that you have legally purchased. Further down the article is a great set of facts describing the internet:
But P2P transfers, almost all of them copyright-infringing, now account for at least a third of all Internet traffic. Plus almost 10% for good old newsgroups, almost all of whose traffic, by volume, also breaks the law. YouTube accounts for about another 10% of all Net traffic all by itself.
One. Third. Of all internet traffic. Holy cow.