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Yes, in red, that’s Richard Stallman, free-software advocate and lover of dance, serving up Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat,” a little ditty that celebrates “supermanning dat ho.” Odd, since Stallman’s dislike of rap music is well-documented.

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OK, so Ask.com is no longer Ask Jeeves, and you’ve never heard of Cracked.com. And really, the Internet isn’t that much like a bad college house party at all. But still, parts of the humorous short “The Internet Party,” from which we briefly excerpt above, ring true. Like the perky, plucky “Google,” who’s played by a much less pretty but equally nerdy version of Marissa Mayer.

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The recording and motion-picture industries have hounded broadband providers to police their pipes for file-sharing pirates. These advocacy groups want service providers to monitor and stop the illegal trafficking of files. AT&T has a filtering plan that Slate calls “baffling”; it would scan all emails and downloads for illicit content. But Time Warner Cable has found a much simpler way to deter film and music pirates — make them pay for bandwidth.

The cable provider is preparing to test a new billing scheme in Beaumont, Texas that would charge customers based on actual Internet usage instead of a flat monthly fee. This means BitTorrent downloaders would pay a premium for all those packets they seed across the net. Pirated content is far less appealing when it isn’t free.

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