Week In Review 45W2009

The Comcast COO says the new generation needs to be educated to respect subscription revenue. See, that’s how you can tell a company is f*ed in the long run.

In a funky newspeak trick EU will use all open formats, including the closed ones. Meanwhile, the EU-wide 3-strikes regulation didn’t pass. It did pass a watered down version which doesn’t demand a full legal court proceeding but a fair and impartial procedure. There’s also an urgency clause that says a computer participating in say, a DDos, can be unplugged.

In pirate news, the announced demise of Pirate Bay has decentralized P2P making it harder to track. Heh.