I'm never gonna say goodbye unless there's a copyright complaint. Oh, rickrolling, will you ever cease to entertain us? Apparently so, given that one of the most widely viewed versions of the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” on YouTube has been taken down due to a copyright claim filed by AVG Technologies. (This particular link appears on the image board 4chan alone some 3,720 times and at a couple hundred thousand other places around the Web.) It’s still unclear exactly when the video was pulled, though Torrentfreak calls it a new development. Rickrolling, for the uninitiated, is the practice of making a link seem like it’s about one thing, only to then actually link to Rick Astley doing his oddly dad-like dancing. (We ... Continue reading →

BiographyA retired but passionate user of free and open source for nearly ten years, novice Python programmer, Ubuntu user, musical wanabee when "playing" piano and guitar. When not torturing musical instruments, rumoured to be translating Vogon poetry into Swahili. Continue reading →