There are spoilers here, so if you’re not caught up on Game of Thrones, go away. “They don’t get to choose.” Those were some of the last words of Daenerys Targaryen, the “breaker of chains” who sought to “break the wheel” only to, in the end, become the wheel herself. I’m still deciding how I…
A Lesson From Netflix About Black Markets And Digital Piracy
Sandvine, a broadband services company, has released a report about bandwidth consumption with this interesting tidbit in it: While the file-sharing service BitTorrent once occupied 31 percent of the total Internet traffic in 2008, this year it occupied 5 percent of the total Internet traffic during the entire day. BitTorrent, for the uninitiated, is a…
On Fictionalized Rape And Painted Breasts
Recently the decision by a Fox television affiliate to blur out the breasts in a Pablo Picasso painting shown on air was greeted by derision from from many on the left who saw it as an example of rank conservative prudishness. Reporting on the record-setting, $179m auction of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O), New…
Free Markets And Piracy
This weekend the latest season of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO, and online the show – which already has the dubious honor of being the most stolen television show in the world – promptly set a record for piracy: Game of Thrones season three premiered last night, and that’s kind of a big deal.…
History Channel Bible Series Makes Satan Look Suspiciously Like Barack Obama
Good grief: That had to be on purpose. Because otherwise we have to believe that everyone involved in the production saw this guy portraying Satan and didn’t make the connection with our President. If the intent of this program is to educate people about the history of the bible, and I assume that’s at least…