Robert Rorschach: 20 Reasons Not to Vote
If one votes, one participates. If one participates, one condones and endorses the process, and subsequently, what those elected ‘representatives’ do and say in your name. Reason 2. Electoral promises are meaningless because politicians are able to lie to gain the favor of the electorate, and then do exactly what they want once they have it. Then there is no accountability or recourse, other than waiting another four years...
ETTV Opens Doors to Uploaders After SPARKS Bust Takes Down Prime Source
The piracy ecosystem is more structured than most people assume. While anyone can upload a file online, the most popular content is distributed publicly by a small number of uploaders. This was also the case at ETTV, which started out as a TV-torrent distribution group on the public torrent site ExtraTorrent. After its original home was shut down, ETTV decided to launch its own website, allowing a select group of uploaders to share...
Copyright Alliance Again Urges Congress To Close Streaming Piracy Loophole
Last month, entertainment industry-backed group Digital Citizens Alliance and content protection company NAGRA published a new study that estimated the pirate IPTV market to be worth a billion dollars each year in the US alone. These types of piracy studies are nothing new but what is interesting about this particular market is that even the biggest ‘pirate’ US players, if they take caution in what type of content they...
Want to make better decisions? Encourage disagreement
Using an inclusive process can lead to better group decisions—ones that empower a group and grant it ownership of the decision. But all open decision making processes should do something else if they’re going to succeed: enable dissent. read more Powered by...
