Stilgherrian » channel nine http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:54:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 Does Nine’s cosy relationship with Microsoft prevent truth emerging? http://stilgherrian.com/media/does-nines-cosy-relationship-with-microsoft-prevent-truth-emerging/ http://stilgherrian.com/media/does-nines-cosy-relationship-with-microsoft-prevent-truth-emerging/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:47:59 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3004 Crikey logo

If there’s a problem with some product which puts you at risk, you’d expect news bulletins to explain your safest options, yeah? But is that possible when the media outlet is a key business partner of the product’s manufacturer?

Yesterday’s zero-day exploit for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is a real risk. But Channel Nine’s story last night didn’t include options like using a non-Microsoft web browser. Was this just the journalist’s ignorance of computers? Or is it because of Nine’s 50/50 business partnership with Microsoft in one of Australia’s busiest websites, NineMSN?

That’s what I ask in Crikey today. The article isn’t behind their paywall, so it’s free for all to read.

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/media/does-nines-cosy-relationship-with-microsoft-prevent-truth-emerging/feed/ BitTorrent vs the Supreme Court of Victoria http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/ http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:42:24 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/ Last night Channel Nine screened the crime drama Underbelly everywhere across Australia — except Victoria, where it was banned following a Supreme Court order. But thanks to the joys of BitTorrent, thousands of people have already downloaded it from the Internet. The law cannot cope in this new era.

As the screenshot shows, Underbelly was online within two hours of broadcast. By mid-morning today, 6500+ people had downloaded it from Mininova alone.

Screenshot of Underbelly downloads available on Mininova

As with the Corey Delaney episode before it, this highlights the stupidity of the law in the bold new age of the Internet. I have no complaint with Justice Betty King’s decision. She’s just upholding the law as it stands. The law, alas, is hopelessly inadequate.

Who, I wonder, has this kind of law reform on their agenda. Anyone?

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