The mobile phone as a information carrier and transferrer

Friday, September 19th, 2008

When the mobile phone was invented, not more than 40 years ago, it was just meant as a normal telephone which you could take with you. No color displays, no funky lights and most importantly no options like contactlist, alarm, texting or taking pictures. Being able to communicate wherever you ...

Legal download when artist agrees with downloading?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

A few days ago a Dutch judge ruled that downloading a copy from an illegal source (ie. most downloading) is illegal as well. This seems fair enough, although most (all?) lawyers are not convinced that the ruling is  justly banning illegal downloads. I think none of us would really care if it's ...