Week In Review 44W2009

And this week UK decided it should be more like France by having some Lord try to push ahead a 3-strikes law. He wants to punish you, your family, your dog and your dead great grandfather. The Guardian points out implementation costs for the spying apparatus would be twice the reported loss by the music industry. Not to mention the cost would mostly be payed by the people affected instead of the beneficiaries.

After last week’s debacle Sequoia decided to plan to release source code for their voting machines. How’s that supposed to work ? How exactly do you verify the machine is running the code you saw ?

Turns out MS didn’t like what Family Guy did for them. Yeah, turns out it was too much like Family Guy and too little about shoe commercials.

China is accusing Google of censorship. Really. You can’t make this stuff up.

And on more crazy news, Amazon patented a way of defending copyright by breaking it. This must be bizarro week.