Homeland Security???s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this ???vulnerability??? in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site.

Addons.mozilla.org, soon to be a “rogue” “terrorist” website, but of course, ICE isn’t waiting for SOPA, which is after all only a post-hoc rationalisation for the actions already taken against Wikileaks. It’s this kind of enforcement that makes me hate copyright.

today, while basic connectivity remains an important issue, there’s a new digital divide emerging; a digital skills gap. We may have a large number of households that have great connectitivity, but they use it for “notworking” – surfing, downloading and social-network-idling – instead of as a key part of their intellectual life and citizenship.

Once there’s more than one divide, things get insignificant exponentially

You can only throw so much good money after bad. Because eventually, you end up with nothing but a warehouse full of tablets, and a faded memory of a company that used to be pretty damn special.

Elegiac.

In short, there is no chance that a top-level application containing an international organization’s name or acronym is going to make it through the application process. Knowing that, someone would have to be extremely foolish to attempt to apply when it can only cost them tens of thousands of dollars for no gain.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it’s revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home are responsible for a nice selection of pirate downloads using BitTorrent. Three strikes? Those with access to the Presidential Palace’s IP addresses have already doubled that quota.

Awesome #SOPA