The Daily Slash: December 2 2010

NASA basically stole the show today, and rightly so, as geobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon announced that she and her team had discovered a form of life that existed outside our known spectrum of living beings. Our very definition of life has just expanded. After that, it's just Light Peak this, 4G LTE that, a floating cellphone over there, life-size 3D holographics over there, oh and ANGRY BIRDS SEASONS is now in the Apple app store! And we got an Advent Vega tablet to look at! Hooray!SlashPIRACY

I'll just leave this here and you tell me what you think about it. This is a quote from a spokesperson from the BPI (essentially England's music industry, similar to USA's RIAA) responding to Google's recent tweaks to its search service like removing words associated with piracy from appearing on autocomplete: "It is encouraging that Google is beginning to respond to our calls to act more responsibly with regard to illegal content, ... However, this package of measures, while welcome, still ignores the heart of the problem – that Google search overwhelmingly directs consumers looking for music and other digital entertainment to illegal sites" – these words basically repeated by Richard Mollet of the Publishers Association: "We hope that the measures announced today take effect quickly and that Google could then consider going further, so that illegal sites don't appear in general free search results."

[Via BBC]

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