PolkaRobot

"Der Online-Shop Musicload hat heute angekündigt, ab sofort auf jegliche DRM-Verschlüsselung zu verzichten."

"Today, The Pirate Bay trial will probably come to an end, but not before the defendants’ lawyers have their final say. All four lawyers call for their clients to be acquitted on various grounds, while offering caution to the court to ignore the politic aspects of the trial."

"Der weltweit beachtete Prozess gegen die Internetseite "The Pirate Bay" endet ungewiss. Bis zum Urteilsspruch kann es noch Wochen dauern."

"Dieses sehr, sehr strange Video kommt von demselben Herrn, über dessen sehr, sehr strange Futurismus-Doku „Let’s Visit the World of the Future“"

"The Pirate Bay trial wrapped up Tuesday in Sweden as the defendants claimed that their site is nothing more than a piece of Internet infrastructure. The verdict comes down in April, but for now, the defendants are off to "party.""

"Most fossil specimens can only wish they had a brain. But paleontologists recently discovered the oldest known example nestled within a 300-million-year-old fish fossil from Kansas."

"Issue #7 of FLURB, Rudy Rucker's astoundingly awesome free sf zine, has just hit the net, with a collection of stories from some of my favorite authors, including a collaboration between Rudy and John Shirley, and work by Madeline Ashby and Terry Bisson. Also, a great story from Richard Kadrey, "Trembling Blue Stars.""

"re:publica, die Konferenz zu Blogs, sozialen Medien und die digitale Gesellschaft, veröffentlicht heute die erste Version des 3-tägigen Programms, das aktuellste Trends und den gesellschaftlichen Einfluss des Web2.0 beleuchten wird."

"On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft."