Cav's Place

As you probably know, United States congressmen will soon vote on SOPA and PIPA, the two laws that will likely result in a Great Firewall of the USA. Unlike the Chinese or Australian versions, this one won’t, for the moment, be used to block sites that address issues that the government doesn’t want its citizens […]

One of the arguments those who oppose the concept that on-line content must be free most frequently make is that it costs more and more to deliver it because of all the multimedia elements in general and the video ones in particular that more and more sites rely on. Which, not counting the fact that […]

I was lying in bed after waking up today, trying to think of something to write, when this old annoyance started creeping up on me again: Why do webmasters insist on making sites more and more complicated all the time? Why do they overload them, and particularly the front page, with all sorts of scripts, […]

A week ago, I was saying that I had another post about “piracy” planned. Once again, had to struggle to get myself to write it, but here it is. Don’t expect anything I haven’t said before, as my views on this are obviously not going to change, but there are a few news pieces that […]

In their misguided fight against what they (as well as other governments and obviously those in the industry) wrongly call piracy, the French government has yet another plan, and this time they want to make it appear nice: People will be able to buy a card worth €50 for only €25, then use it to […]