- Indian e-voting researcher released, Freedom to Tinker
- UK Pirate Party guide to the Digital Economy Act, TorrentFreak
- Net neutrality now law in Chile, Slashdot
- First test of Righthaven suit, considers innocent infringement, Techdirt
- Second newspaper chain joins Righthaven operation, Wired
- Google, Yahoo concerned over C-32 enabler provisions, Michael Geist
- James Moore on private copying levy, Michael Geist
- Microsoft v. i4i could head to Supreme Court, Globe and Mail
- More calls to gut DMCA safe harbors due to burden of policing infringement, Ars Technica
- H.264 royalty waiver extension prelude to a video patent war?, Slashdot
- Progress to bringing memristors to market, Wired
- No private net neutrality agreement, yet, Ars Technica
- FCC responds to Google/Verizon neutrality proposal, Ars Technica
- Plan for national free wireless plan finally comes to an end, Ars Technica
- White space plan to be finalized this month, Ars Technica
- Hurt Locker file-sharing subpoenas begin, Slashdot
Tag: Canadian DMCA
TCLP 2010-08-01 News
This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, an apology for missing the last two shows, though I had good reason. I will be in San Francisco from August 9th to the 11th for Cassandra Summit and a training day. If anyone is interested in a meet up Monday or Tuesday night, let me know. And if you don’t read the web site, I am a finalist for a Parsec award.
This week’s security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn’t get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn’t interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.
In this week’s news EFF wins three DMCA exemptions with deeper analysis from both them and Public Knowledge. There were two additional exemptions granted and many others that were not. I get why most of the coverage is so positive but I cannot help but give voice to my inner cynic. Also, the Senate prepares privacy legislation as industry discusses self regulation, a couple of stories about e-books in developing nations, and Slashdot is losing relevance on the social web.
Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.
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Following Up for the Week Ending 7/18/2010
- FCC dodges pointed questions about broadband plan
- SCO evidence of Linux copying finally provided, not very compelling
- Ruling that reduced Tenenbaum damages compares p2p to unlicensed public performance
- More detailed analysis of constitutional questions in reduction of Tenenbaum damages
- Annotating the C-32, radical extremists speech
- Minister behind C-32 backs down from invitation to debate the bill
- Even US intellectual property organizations are concerned over ACTA
- Next round of ACTA talks in DC and Japan
- Full draft from Lucerne round of ACTA negotiations leaked
- First post-Bilski ruling to cite that SCOTUS case
- French legislators have 2nd thoughts on three strikes
- Google fiber project gets a web site but no winners yet
- Lack of funding may bring Chinese censorware to an end
- NZ stands firm against software patents
Via Groklaw. - Guns and Roses uploader dodges serving up RIAA propaganda
- FCC ignores concerns over transparency, continues closed door discussions of net neutrality plan`
- Thousands more to be sued for infringement by likes of USCG
Following Up for the Week Ending 7/11/2010
- ACTA consensus on transparency breaking down
- WIPO worried at why countries felt ACTA needed to be handled outside of WIPO
- An update to the interactive ACTA timeline
- MP Angus calls out Moore, Clement over aspects of C-32
- Mediation in the Thomas-Rasset case fails
- USCG plaintiffs to get 28 IP addresses a month
- Another in-depth comparison of VP-8 and h.264
- SCO appeals
- Comcast settlment now final
- Germany challenging Facebook over privacy of non-users
Via Carey Lening - FCC broadband plan would put US in 2nd tier of countries
- Lawyers pressing NSA warrant-less wiretap cases demanding more then $2MM
- China renews Google’s license to operate
- Australia bows to public pressure, delays plans to filter the net
- Damage verdict in Tenenbaum case reduced ten fold
- Judge says damages in Tenenbaum case were unconstitutionally excessive
- Google found guilt of privacy breach in Australia
Following Up for the Week Ending 7/4/2010
- EU rushing to ACTA agreed
- Report on meeting with ACTA negotiators in Lucerne
- EU action alert on ACTA
- USTR statement on ACTA makes no mention of releasing latest draft
- ACTA will reach final draft in six months
- UK rejects ACTA call to criminalize illicit file sharing
- VP8 codec coming to FFmpeg
- Flash to continue to have large role at YouTube, more so than WebM
- Bilski is affirmed though ruling is narrower than hoped
- EFF’s analysis of the Bilski decision
- Trying to divine the future of software patents in the wake of the Bilski decision
- White House wants more spectrum for wireless broadband
- King’s Quest fan project is back
- The latest between Google and China
- Google to end .cn redirect
- Congress examines US investment in Chinese censorship
- Some Google searchers now blocked in China
- EU launches its own net neutrality inquirt
- Judge orders user-friendly notices in USCG suits
- Judge rejected all of EFF’s arguments in USCG cases
- Broadband now official a legal right in Finland
- Vote to repeal Britain’s Digital Economy Act
- Internet Archive starts lending in copyright e-books
HT Tim Vollmer. - Canadian copyright astroturfers own up to fronting US labels
- Woman accused of camcorder piracy sues theater
- Fight against telco immunity continues in appeals court
TCLP 2010-06-27 News
This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast.
This week’s security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense.
In this week’s news NY meet Silicon Valley, the first report from the new IP enforcement czar and some analysis and some reactions, looking at HTML5 beyond video, and an explanation why Share Alike is open and Non Commercial is not.
Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors.
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Following Up for the Week Ending 6/20/2010
- Law firm steps in to defend folks from USCG
- IEEE still flogging DRM scheme it thinks consumers will accept
- State department has incorporated internet censorship into its policy priorities
- Senators urge FCC to fast track white space devices
- Interest in Facebook’s privacy policy has flatlined
HT gpsilberman on Twitter - Proposed amendments to fix C-32
- Industry minister defends C-32
- Pro C-32 astroturfing uncovered
- Optimizations for the VP-8 codec
- FFMPEG release with support for codecs used commonly with HTML5, including vorbis, webm
Via Hacker News. - Opera beta with webm support now open
- AT&T threatens to stop investment in U-verse if net neutrality moves ahead
- Verizon avers not to block P2P while arguing for a long term net neutrality plan
- New study predicts massive job losses in the wake of net neutrality
- FCC opens its discussion period for “third way” net neutrality plan
- Music labels set to get three strikes enacted for two-thirds of Irish broadband
- WTO report on TRIPS council and ACTA
- Key dates for the EU Parliament to act on ACTA
- RMS on taking a stand against ACTA
- Google, others respond to call for comments in support of “third way” for net neutrality
- Privacy experts think Facebook critics are unrealistic
- Google WiFi detail includes passwords, email content
Following Up for the Week Ending 6/13/2010
- Australian police to investigate over Google WiFi scanning
- Criminal intent revealed by probe of Google WiFi scanning
- Google releases WiFi sniffing audit
- Google would rather face a single, large law suit over WiFi sniffing snafu
- Former FCC chair won’t testify at Comcast-NBC merger hearing
- Video explaining the latest Canadian DMCA
- More on digital locks under Canada’s C-32
- Redline version of Canadian copyright law merged with C-32
- IFPI doesn’t think C-32 is severe enough
- Targeted comments on the Boucher-Stearns privacy draft
- RIAA says LimeWire is on the hook for $1B
- RIAA may be demanding as much as $1.5 trillion from LimeWire
- Last chance for hacker, Gary McKinnon, to avoid extradition
Via Slashdot - IP addresses of first Hurt Locker demand letter victims revealed
- More targets of US Copyright Alliance speak out
- EFF helps coordinate defense against US Copyright Group’s mass of subpoenas
- Firefox 4 gets WebM video
- More legal analysis of advice to doctors to use copyright to stifle criticism
- India speaks out against ACTA at WTO
- European privacy officials state Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are still breaking the law
- Judge rejects SCO’s motion for a new trial
- Linux wins SCO vs. Novell case