Linux Outlaws 248 - Rantastic

Released: January 29, 2012
Length: 1:46:37

A wagonload of SOPA fallout, Megaupload takedown, Apple iBooks Author and a metric ton of rants...

0:01:19 Introduction

• A new Bruce Springsteen album has been announced
• Win a €5 Flattr voucher!
• Cory Doctorow published his Chaos Communication Congress talk as an article on BoingBoing
• Relics of Annorath — another Unigine game coming to Linux
• Hyrulecraft

Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball

0:13:00 Releases & News

• No notable releases
• SOPA & PIPA shelved indefinitely — but the war isn’t over, see ACTA
• A day after SOPA is shelved: Raid on Megaupload, Kimble arrested (more information) 
• Side effects of the shutdow, Anonymous strikes back
• The Register: Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA
• Video: the Amazing Atheist on SOPA/PIPA
• US Congress can now take works out of the public domain
• It looks like Valve hasn’t given up on Steam for Linux quite yet
• Desura going open source

0:55:36 Microwatch

• Matthew Garret: More problems with Secure Boot

1:01:07 Crapplewatch

• Apple inundates Samsung with more lawsuits in Germany
• iBooks Author is Apple trying to embrace and extend ebook standards

Engage!

1:12:49 Feedback

Supporters: Sijmen Cozijnsen, Tom Sparrow, Remy van Elst — from Flattr: corenominal, Chris Woollard and Dave Ostroske

• David Yang sent us a pro-SOPA story he found
• Greg corrects Dan on a few points
• Dailey Chandler is a member of the American Chestnut Foundation and tells us more about it
• Beesa says the ACF having their own magazine isn't that much of a stretch if you think about it
• Michael Pacey sent us a really nice email saying how much he enjoys the show
• Branden Andersen sent us information on the iBooks Author story we talked about earlier
• Michael Pettet sent us a link to an episode pf This American Life about the inner workings of Apple factories in China: audio, transcript
• Thomas Ritter emails us about Scribus and desktop publishing
• Yannis A. sent us an email about some rather disturbing Linux distros he has discovered

We had other emails from Sven and dacresni.

Song: La Batalla by La Olla Express (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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