Cav's Place

The Internet is an excellent medium for the free flow of information. Or so it should be. Unfortunately, governments, religious authorities and various other interest groups have noticed that and are determined to put a stop to it. After all, thinking, informed people are much harder to control, and freedom of speech and thought are […]

This would be some of the best news I’ve seen in quite some time if it’d spread. But the usual problem with such things is that when something seems too good to be true it usually is, and saying that people whose shared files are valued at less than 3000 Euros, considering a song as […]

As a next step in the international plan of bringing the iron fist down over the Internet, the British government wants to block pro-suicide sites. They’d also like ISPs to automatically redirect those who want to access such sites to organizations who try to prevent suicide. I won’t rant about the right to die again, […]

Sweden certainly doesn’t seem to live up to its name of flag bearer of freedom anymore. After apparently losing the right to choose who to invite to your party, its residents will also lose the right to communicate privately, as well as the presumption of innocence it seems… This fight against terrorism certainly seems to […]

Several months ago, a nice post was written by a Green Options blogger, supporting purchasing music on-line strictly for environmental reasons. I will take this further, also including software and movies and other reasons for which buying such things on disks should be dropped in favor of other means, means which wouldn’t even require servers […]