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A little over two years ago, we wrote about how (the absolutely incredibly brilliant) comedian Louis CK had gotten some news by asking politely for some fans to take down a video from a file sharing site, noting that it was new material he was working on, and he wasn't ready for it to be seen widely yet.

The request worked. Louis himself stopped by our comments to provide some more detail.

PayPal is pretty famous for the fact that almost no one likes it. It's why we're finally starting to see some alternatives springing up (or getting ready to spring up).

And yet, it still seems to go out of its way to make bad decisions.

PayPal was attacked by Anonymous last year when they had blocked the Wikileaks accounts transactions. Now PayPal has finally come up with enough evidence to strike back at Anonymous with the help of the FBI.

PayPal has come up with a list of over 1,000 IP Addresses left behind when they were attacked by Anonymous.

Last week, Wikileaks and Datacell threatened to sue Mastercard, Visa and Paypal if it didn't stop blocking payments to Wikileaks.

The claims were basically collusion charges, in that all of the major payment companies were blocking payments.

There hasn't been much talk lately over the fact that PayPal, MasterCard and Visa all cut off Wikileaks late last year, after the US government freaked out about the release of some State Department Cables.

None of the firms has done a very good job explaining why this makes sense (or why they continue to allow other groups, such as the KKK to receive funding, while singling out Wikileaks).

InternetNews: Paypal sues Google, Linux 3.0 and Server market rebounds in Q1.

With the acquisition of Fig Card PayPal is laying down a marker that the pioneer in disruptive payment won’t be left behind in the coming e-wallet revolution.

We've been covering how tons of porn companies have jumped on the bandwagon with these mass pre-settlement shakedown operations, in which they threaten thousands of people for the possibility that they might have infringed on their copyrights, and ask them to pay up to avoid a lawsuit.

Over the last few weeks, TorrentFreak has been following how Liberty Media has been gearing up for just such a plan, with a few twists.

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog

There's been quite a demand recently for online shops, While I do have a custom online shop, It's currently quite specific to a client, and does not have a generic frontend.

So any kind of re-purposing involves creating a new design. Obviously this looks like a good long term plan, along with open sourcing it properly.
However in the meantime, I discovered opencart a few weeks ago, and for a quick and dirty shop delivery it's not to bad.