A Belgian ISP by the name of “Scarlet” won something of a victory in copyright law recently. They had been ordered to block “block transfers of copyrighted materials via P2P”. The order was reversed because the judge agreed that the way the Belgian flavor of the RIAA proposed to implement proved to be ineffective.

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Whups.. I said the word “government” there didn’t I? Guess I answered my own question.

Video is great. There’s a lot you can do with it. I have for example come to very much appreciate video tutorials that you can find on YouTube, Metacafe and probably any video sharing site. There’s been a bunch of them that I’ve found very useful.

Last summer Congress passed the new “electronic spying bill”. One provision of that bill ordered the inspectors general of the U.S. intelligence agencies to produce a public report on President Bush’s warrantless-surveillance program.