links for 2008-11-27

• TECHNOLOGY WAR: SeaLand now offline
  Awww, the world's smallest country wont sell itself to The Pirate Bay… Lame. The internet could really use a truly-sovreign data center.
  (tags: politics TechnologyWar technology internet connectivity Sealand HavenCo MichaelBates RyanLackey UK p2p bittorrent ThePirateBay)
• HORTON HAD A LAWYER: Dr. Seuss lawyers stop holiday Who-ville in Louisville
  Yea. Dr. Seuss characters are copyrighted. Don't you dare use them for a city Christmas display without paying someone. (It's good that these laws are protecting the rights of Dr. Seuss's rotting corpse, which is rolling over in its grave right now.)
  (tags: politics copyright intellectualProperty ceaseAndDesist books Dr.Seuss TheodoreGeisel DLAPiper Dr.SeussEnterprises Who-ville Grinch legal Abramson Louisiana)
• TECHNOLOGY WAR: VICTORY: Finally an Obama appointee I like!
  Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a hardcore World Of Warcraft player. This may bode well for us. Someone controlling our technology policy who actually understand its use firsthand, in a fashion other than what you'd read from an executive summary or what you'd do at work. Too bad the title sounds kind of temporary.
  (tags: politics TechnologyWar Vcitories technology FCC appointees ObamaAdministration politicians BarackObama KevinWerbach games computerGames gamesr WorldOfWarcraft MMORPG)
• ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game
  She was a season ticket holder who had her seat stolen from her, so she sat somewhere else. Surely all of the combined police force here can move a 54-year-old lady without having to taser her to the point where they have to put her in a wheelchair?
  I'm sure this will be found to be justified, though. And the cops lied by saying she was sitting in an aisle. 24 eyewitnesses have signed a petition protesting the police's behavior.

  Pain ray compliance: Once thought to be science fiction, it became reality much faster than anyone could have predicted.

  And as always — funny how the video is being kept under wraps. Personally, I think it should become public record in cases like these. (At the very least, after the fact.)

  (tags: politics AbuseOfAuthority OverlyHarshPunishments tasers polie brutality polieBrutality 52-year-old woman MargaretHiebing Badgers RandallStadium media video reality WKO7 Infowars news articles seasonTickets lies painCompliance)