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A series of tubes… with borders?

<rant> Is it just me, or is the Internet increasingly becoming a bordered world? From iTunes store accounts linked to credit cards, to GeoIP technology, it seems that services are relying more and more on being focused on one, geo-politically … Continue reading

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An observation

Top Gear, series 11, episode 3. Time difference from broadcast to posting on iPlayer: 1 hour Time difference from broadcast to availability (in presumably higher quality) via BitTorrent: 2 hours Impressive no? Especially as the BitTorrent release groups have to … Continue reading

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