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Probably we do remember, after the Columbine shooting, the “blaming of Marilyn Manson”.
(Wikipedia; what would M.Manson have done “Nothing, I would have listened, because no one else did”)
Or the suicide of a couple of Metal guys after “following the instructions of Judas Priest”.
All kinds of groups/music/subcultures are blamed for all kinds of different violent acts….
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Yesterday I read an article about a “weird lawsuit” in Holland.
My guess; this lawsuit does involve an old judge who did not hear about internet yet…. and is probably doing all his writing or by pen or with a typewriter…..
First I will tell you something which can happen to every blog and website owner….
You [...]

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Interesting; this guy – we call him “Tale” – meets with a headhunter, talking about a job in the “Online Media Industry”….. Tale is mentioning at a certain point that IN THE PAST he was doing a lot of online gaming and now-a-days once a while a little bit [...]

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We all remember the “death”  of HD DVD of Toshiba and Microsoft…..
It made Blu Ray the big winner……
BUT; as Microsoft was NOT stepping into the Blu-Ray camp AND they where more and more promoting their own Xbox 360 movie channel options….. I came to the simple conclusion that Microsoft is not going to “bet [...]

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Napster – hugely known for the P2P network they created around the year 2000… forbidden (yep – I still remember the fight of Metallica – afraid to loose a nickle….) in 2002…. They tried to be a legal music store – but a lot of fights against with the music industry didn’t really help [...]

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It is just a rumor – but for the xbox community an “important” one;
Gearbox (known of Brothers in Arms) is going to do the next Halo game = which surprisingly is uh….4…??
It seems to be a certain thing that Windows and Gearbox are talking about it…..
We will see…….
On the other hand – probably this [...]