I don’t make a habit of defending crimes of either child pornography or copyright infringement, but in this particular instance, I’m speaking up… An Australian man has been convicted of possessing child pornography and of accessing child pornography on his computer and fined AUS$3,000. “Why the small penalty?”, you might be asking. “Why is this […]
Okay, I admit it. I pay for my music. And for a variety of reasons: I work at a university, and so if I want to download during work hours, I wouldn’t want to do so illegally (you must know that in the US, universities are targeted heavily by the RIAA!); I like having the […]
In the wake of the ridiculously absurd British blocking of the Wikipedia entry for Scorpions’ “Virgin Killer” [warning: full-frontal underage female nudity], it has come to my attention that there are plenty of other album covers out there just ripe for re-censorship. Take Blind Faith‘s one and only album. While the prepubescent girl in question […]