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janrinok
on Saturday April 19 2014, @05:07AM
from the get-the-popcorn-and-settle-down dept.
from the get-the-popcorn-and-settle-down dept.
Torrentfreak reports that Google's own systems are being used to host pirate content for streaming video sites like watch32.com and yify.tv. Apparently the pirates have figured out how to get Google to foot the bandwidth bill for their latest business model. The MAFIAA are not pleased, but Google does not seem to have the organizational ability to do anything about it.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:39PM
In politics, it's more important to get to the right schools and mix with the right people (Yale, Harvard etc, especially law school) than to have lots of money. Obama was from a pretty poor family and got a scholarship. I think Clinton was too (Stepfather was a used car salesman)
Same in the UK now. Long gone are the days of Thatcher and Major when PMs went to state schools (Thatcher went to Oxford on a Chemistry scholarship, Major left school at 16).
In UK business you still get self-made captains of industry - Sugar, Dyson, Branson, Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne etc. but they tend to be the showy ones. The hidden ones (equivalent of the Kochs) do have those connections. They don't seem to influence politics overtly though, but then the UK has a fairly strong Labour party, which has fairly strong union backing, so can't be seen as too pro-business. Compared with the U.S. the UK has a good choice every election.