CopyFraud

Burgal cuffs him self into porn store

I say. Alcohol must have something to do with the events in Helsinki Porn shop. Police found the burgler who had chained him self with furry cufs lying in a PVC dress with some store equipment "placed into him" when responsing an alarm. Link: Iltalehti Online.

Itseään tyydyttänyt mies makasi nahkasohvan takana naisten mustaan PVC-muoviasuun ja vaaleanpunaisiin pupukorviin sonnustautuneena. Hän oli pannut itselleen myös mustat, karvaiset käsiraudat ja sijoittanut itseensä hyllystä löytämiään välineitä.

Could it be that the case had something to do with the name of the place "Stag nite-shop"? It would be the ultimate stag nite prank to break in to the store and leave passed out bride/groom in... to awkward situation.

Berkeley Perspective

Next week I am starting to blog on digitoday site at "berkeleyn perspektiivi"-blog. This time it will be all in Finnish. Expect ranting about Americans, technology, law and politics. I am going to jump the gun and let the Copyfraud readers have a peak at the blog. Link: digitoday.fi - Berkeleyn perspektiivi.

Star wreck to s60 phones and iPod

Link: Tommi's S60 applications blog

Now your favourite Sci-Fi Parody is available to portable devices. I tried the 106mb version and it rocks! I wonder if Steve Jobs would take the movie into his iTunes movie video store...

Photographing Berkeley

I took my camera with me today for lunch at Telegraph avenue's Cafe Intermezzo. The place is famous for it's amazing salads. There is another advantage. A lot of freaks and interesting looking people walk past the window tables. Perfect photo opportunity. The Intermezzo didn't fail this time either.

Digitoday uses Games illustration

Today Digitoday has a news about Nokia dropping their sponsorship of the Sugar Bowl. Digitoday is speculating that the reason for dropping it would be partly because FOX got the broadcasting rights. Could be.. But look at the picture. It says "Nokia Sugar Bowl year 2002". Is it just me, or is that a screenshot from madden 2003? I bet that most of the Finnish people didn't register that the story was illustrated with screenshot and the Sanoma company didn't have access/money/time to get a real image of the (Nokia)sugar bowl. digitoday

Bill O'Reilly's agenda

I have a new favorite program. Bill O'reilly's O'reilly Factor. He has a "news" program on fox and he is as right wing as it gets. It is nice to hear the opposing views to matters that I take as granted like: Intelligent design, Bush's illegal eaves dropping and war at Iraq. O'reilly Factor (his show) is presented as news program, but in reality it is pure propaganda. His guests are his right wing buddies. Yesterday the X-speaker of the house Newt Gingrich was ranting how president Bush was not breaking the law by giving authorization for tapping the phones of Americans. I don't believe O'reilly has ever disagreed with Bush politics. O'reilly even uses the traditional brain washing tactics. He stops his program and suddenly starts his monologue ranting about stupid Nazi democrats. His speech is boosted with a simultanious text. This way the audience will have two input channels activated at the same time.

Just last week O'reilly called American Civil Liberties Union ACLU as Nazi terrorists. ACLU among other things revealed illegal NSA spying, has fought against the renewal of Patriot act sun set provisions and has generally been a good watchdog of government.

Lately O'reilly has been complaining how the government isn't allowed to use "merry Christmas" anymore. I guess this is one point where Bill O'reilly criticized White house. Presidential Christmas card didn't mention Christmas but had a more generic: "happy holidays". O'reilly: "Put Christ back into Christmas". I say: "Happy Hanukkah  Bill"

See also: FOX News.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Interview - Howard Stern

Bloging libel cases in Finland

I have been following the case for the Finnish blogger who got sued for libel a while ago.Today he got the fined and he had to pay the plaintif some damages.

Today, in court, my criticism was considered to have “clearly gone beyond what can be considered reasonable” (my non-professional, and probably inaccurate translation of the part of 9 §, which this sentencing is based on). I was sentenced to a small fine (due to my small incomes), to pay the plaintiff’s related expences (also reasonably small), to pay a moderate, with respect to what was demanded, compensation for “mental anguish”

I don't know all the details but it the court saw that the line was crossed. I had similar experiences with Lehtovaara but the difference was that I critisized a company and I didn't use profane language. There is a side note to the story: The police demanded the defendant to take down the material on wrong/no bases. The defendant made a complain and in the police admitted that they didnt know enough about the law regarding network communication. The best part was that when defendat had asked the police about the the specific law where the police is using to demand the takedown; he was labelled "wise ass". Read the whole story at marginaali

There is another case at Kajaani where police found out the anonymious poster's identity and he was convicted to 450 euro fines and 2000 euro damages.

 

Star Trek news

The Wired is runnign a story about a Star Trek: New Voyages. New voyages is a amateur film which continues the story of the original Star Trek saga. They have a lot of common nominators with Star Wreck. Wired notices that after the cancellation of the Enterprise, there are no Star Treks in the production.

On the other hand there are wild rumours that the next Star Trek movie would have William Shatner playing as Evil captain Kirk. A week ago I heard on the radio that the new movie would bring Kirk, Next generation crew and even the Enterprise crew together for the "last time". These news sound that the official Trek is getting closer to fan fiction where alternate universes and crossover stories are popular.

Barbie is big business

Link: Playing Around with Barbie.

Barbie is a $ 1.2-billion-per-yearbusiness.  Every second, somewhere in the world, twoBarbies are sold."(67)  Inthe United States, girls from 3 to 11 years old own an average of10 Barbie dolls, compared to seven in Italy and five in Franceand Germany.

I foud an excellent article by Aluson lewis about use of copyright and trademarks to control the expression aroung everyday cultural icons like Barbie.

Boing Boing: KRON-TV: everyone in the newsroom is a one-man-band.

Link: Boing Boing: KRON-TV: everyone in the newsroom is a one-man-band..

San Francisco's KRON recently became the first major-market TV station in the US to supply much of its newsoom staff with laptops and digital video cameras, then train them to shoot, write, and produce stories on their own.

I have to watch these news every day and boy do they suck. I didn't realise before reading the story that the reason was competition and cost savings. I guess the blogosphere and traditional newscasting are getting closer. There just doesn't seem to be a place anymore for small and medium news channels. CNN and fox "news" and of course BBC do a proper job of broadcasting real news. Rest of the channels just camourflage their american funniest home videos as news... and FOX broadcasts propaganda.