As many of you who read Slashdot will know, corporations and, under the command of corporations, Governments, are trying there best to stiffle freedom. And the latest internatinal treaty could make things even worse. RMS sums up the details at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/hague.html

Couple this with the international cybercrime treaty.

And also the RIP and private security industry act, we are in trouble.

In a single ray of hope, the EU is investigating the pricing and regional encoding of DVD's, The australian government has also begun an investigation into DVD region encoding and New Zealand has made it illegal.

Thats the news for this week.

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Now for something completely different.

Fun sites to view

The support group for people used by microsoft

http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/

And even more bazaar

http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/

Thanks

D

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