Censored

• Twitter to selectively censor tweets by country.
• Google paves the way for a not so World Wide Web.
• Fight back with this WordPress plugin!

Copyfight

• Pirate Bay founders officially fucked (but the torrents keep seeding).
• Hollywood cries poor (but their bank accounts keep a-greening).
• “You wouldn’t download a car…” But soon you might be able to.

Cana-duh

• The fight for mobile rights … to broadcast an American football game.
• Ontario teens send Lego man into space. Good for them.

Goin’ Mobile

• So Currie saw Blood In The Mobile last night…

AppleAppleApple

• WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CARRIERS?!1!

Tired Old Media

• Monty Python to reunite for “CGI & live action farce“.
• JoBlo something something.

Pew-Pew!

• Oh look, the author of SOPA is a copyright violator.
• And Rogers says truth-in-advertising law violates its freedom of expression.
• This just in: Android users are playas. Giggity.
• And BB users? Well…
• Slow news day at NY Times: The rise of the toilet texter.
• Breading cats, you say?

Shout-outs

• All hail @victriviaqueen!
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• Here’s something new, from radio reddit it’s Built By Snow with their track, All the Weird Kids Know.

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AppleAppleApple

• iBooks 2, not cool.
• Can Apple even be stopped at this point?

Copyfight

• Hollywood bites back; MegaUpload shut down., with predictable results.
• Lobbyists gone wild.
• Great, there’s a RE-copyright now…

Canada-duh

• Fincky-dink is gone; where the fuck did they get this guy?
• A SOPA to call our own.
• They always come in Cs…
• A whistleblower’s open letter to Canada.
• Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program.

Priva-see

• Can’t opt out of that, no can do.

Goin’ Mobile

• RIM’s co-CEOs resign, with predictable results.

Pew-Pew!

• Hashtags gone wild.
• Windows Phone tops in 2015, says Microsoft-commissioned study.
• Rogers’ new cancellation policy in da house!
• CRTC has strong words for Rogers (and not much else).
• So that’s why Apple Stores are so popular…

Shout-outs

• Currie needs more direction on this tweet from SimonLR.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• This week we’ve got Lee Reed with a track from his Emergency Broadcast album, Same Old Same.

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Copyfight

• And… blackout!
• SOPA/PIPA sponsors drop like flies.
• Yet it’s business as usual at Facebook, Google (Canada), HuffPo, Twitter…

Canada-duh

• Election laws they are a-changin‘…
• Identi.ca’s Evan Prodromou offers a hand to Google.
• iWeb begets Funio. Funny story about that…

Goin’ Mobile

• Samsung not a suitor for beleaguered RIM.

AppleAppleApple

• Cupertino responds to This American Life.
• “I visited the Apple campus but that’s all I’m allowed to say.“
• “Wow, this iPad 2 sure is heavy…”
• But this has to be TEH BEST APP EVAR!!1!

Pew-Pew!

• The continuing pornification of tech.
• Early candidate for understatement of the year: Rogers price hike not well received by users.
• Meanwhile, Shaw fucks over Mountain Cable refugees (like Anth).
• Bell Media the king of streaming video in Cana-duh.
• For those who know better, The Pirate Bay has good news. More on magnet links here.
• Here comes the Symantec source code. Does anyone care?
• You probably shouldn’t be using McAfee products, either.
• Jerry Yang retires from Yahoo. What does it mean? Duhr…

Shout-outs

• Doug Slater sent us some more Rogers fail.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• From blogTO’s Weekend Mixtape here’s The Elwins with their track, Stuck in the Middle.

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Canada-duh

• OpenMedia to bring spectrum auction issues to a wider audience.
• A dystopian future for Canada’s Internet.
• TPP — another acronym to be afraid of.
• “Storied” Canadian Indie publisher gobbled up by Bertelsmann AG.

Copyfight

• Some of the stuff that should have entered the public domain on January 1st but didn’t.
• From the obvious department: “Hollywood must build a better BitTorrent.”
• Another petition to stop SOPA. From Hollywood Unions.

Goin’ Mobile

• Activism comes to Android with Boycott SOPA app.
• Upstart Canadian carrier Mobilicity is becoming a train wreck. Social data too? Jesus…
• Barnes & Noble an unlikely hero in pushback to Microsoft protection racket — some background and the latest developments.

AppleAppleApple

• Siri to dominate CES? Mmkay…
• Why Canada should care about iPhone for T-Mobile USA.
• Anybody catch This American Life recently?

Pew-Pew!

• Bell assigns escort service number to 11 year-old girl.
• The consequences of nanny-ware.
• That’s so ghetto!
• Thumbs up to Virgin Mobile.
• Bring on the thumbrive media players.
• No bananas for your Apples.
• Your Jo Blo link of the week.

Shout-outs

• Get it right: YAY-zhay YAR-masch.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• A classic from Jamendo this week, Leslie Hunt with her track American Dream Man.

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Andrew isn’t here, Anth is here but in Vegas and all things considered it’s amazing we connected this week at all. But we did, and we talked about Canada, mobile and more movies and TV stuff than usual. Not to mention bringing back a really old segment.

We’ll be here with another with a live episode next Wednesday, so join us for Episode 168.

Off the Top

• We’ve told you had bad Rogers is…now let Floyd

Canada-Duh

• Eight and a Half’s latest release is out, and we play with Scissors (courtesy of Arts and Crafts)

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