Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill introduced in the United States. House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar S Smith, along with 12 co sponsors, introduced SOPA, on October 26th 2011. SOPA’s been created to increase the ability of US law enforcement, to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit [...]
Culture Unplugged Studios’ ‘Spirit Enlightened’ aspires to trace the spirit that has led the humanity and evolutionary consciousness to present form and is in the midst of creating our future. The festival hopes to explore with you, ‘That’ which envelops to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands our vision of [...]
The initial cloud of smoke has cleared on 2012′s National Defense Authorization Act and we are still no better informed about the extent of its newly formed ambiguous power than we were when it was passed two weeks ago. The NDAA of 2012 broke with its traditionally monotonous roots when its scope spread far beyond [...]
Leave it to the internet to find a way to circumvent impending laws designed solely to control it. Pro-internet developer Tamer Rizk designed a tool that can circumvent the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and ‘save the internet’. Rizk’s app is rather ironic given that it circumvents SOPA – despite its anti-circumvention measures. His new [...]
You are invited to yet another online Film Festival : Spirit Enlightened – the festival that traces the spirit which has led the humanity forever and is in the midst of birthing new womb – new life through us. The story of spirit, divine, enlightenment, healing – from storytellers and evolutionaries across the world, unveiled [...]
Surprise, surprise — America is meddling in international affairs, again. The United State’s newest pet piracy project, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is looking to bring the uber-American vigilante-style anti-piracy justice beyond its borders. This newest act in a long string of anti-piracy measures will allow the U.S Department of Justice to force an [...]
Are you into Documentaries? Do you love to learn about facts, dive deeper into controversies and get to the bottom of news that makes surface headlines? Documentary is the most influential form of content and can have sustaining visual and emotional impact on each of us. It can drive within us a need to make [...]
Culture Unplugged have released their iPad Application where you will discover documentaries and films from around the world from film-makers, activists, grassroots-productions and purpose driven institutions. This program is brought to you by all participating film-makers, the festival partners and the organizing team around the world, as a philanthropic offering to uplift our collective consciousness. [...]
There is a new form of self-indulgent online unaware narcissism going on — news filtering. Many of the most popular internet sites are skewing the information that you see online, to your likes and habits. And while some argue that this helpful tool personalizes the web, Eli Pariser thinks that it is turning us all [...]
There has lately been enough pressure from three corners of the technology world on Apple, which has coerced it to change its policy control over the development of applications for its iPhones and iPads. At one corner of the ring is the developers’ community which has been highly dissatisfied with Apple’s strict policy on developing [...]