- 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: Digital Economy Bill
Digital Economy Act Could Spur More “Pirate” ISPs
The launch of Pirate ISP by the original Pirate Party clearly has the members of the UK Pirate Party thinking. Specifically, they expect that the Digital Economy Act may encourage smaller ISPs to crop up that also resist turning over customer data and do not retain logs.
You would think that refusing to play along with the new law’s deputization of service providers would already be out of bounds but there is apparently a loop hole related to the size of the provider.
However, the Ofcom proposals only apply to large ISPs, which the [UK] Pirate Party says will drive mid-size ISPs to break into smaller companies which fall outside the rules – creating a wave of so-called “Pirate ISPs” in the UK.
The prediction is not that unlikely. In other countries, like South Korea and France, where three strikes rules have come into play, file sharers have managed to route around those responsible for enforcing disconnection. The party specifically anticipates existing ISPs will hive off into smaller operations which also seems more likely than spinning up entirely new services, like the Swedish party did.
TCLP 2010-07-11 News
This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, thanks to new donor, Scott, and a request that existing donor Ryan contact me so I can send him his merit badge. Also, there will be new feature cast this week. I need to catch up on writing features for the show and I will be attending two events in DC this week: What Does Light Taste Like and Decoding Digital Activism.
This week’s security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft’s dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.
In this week’s news new quantum states could lead to new approaches to quantum computing, the Apache web server conquers the world, another constructive criticism of transparency, and the NSA is looking to implement domestic surveillance of our infrastructure though they are quick to deny any active monitoring.
Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.
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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
Following Up for the Week Ending 5/9/2010
- NZ three strikes bill receives unanimous support
- Further reaching effects of Comcast ruling on FCC
- Canada again tops US piracy watch list
- Universal wants more limits on safe harbors in wake of Veoh ruling
- Indian trade official says ACTA is out of synch with TRIPS
- Ofcom moving ahead with DEAct letters regime
TCLP 2010-04-11 News
This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David.
This week’s security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on apps and services and a vulnerability in WebKit’s handling of the blink tag.
In this week’s news reverse engineering facial recognition to develop dazzle camouflage (a story I also wrote up on the web site), asking whether IBM broke its open source patent pledge with their response and clarifying commentary from a couple of knowledgeable folks, a new memory management technique that could boost performance for multiple cores, and contending format shifting a book you own is ethical with supporting and dissenting responses.
Following up this week court rules against FCC in Comcast case barring neutrality regulation on ancillary authority but not through other means and the Digital Economy Bill has been passed including what we should do now.
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Following Up for the Week Ending 4/11/2010
- Historical precedent for warrant-less wiretapping
- Comcast ruling will stall FCC’s broadband plan
- Comcast realizing the downside to wining against the FCC
- Why ruling against FCC may not kill net neutrality
- Does ACTA kill online anonymity?
- How ACTA will change the world’s internet laws
- Wellington declaration on ACTA
- Some publishers realize Google Books has benefits for them
- Judge in Fairey case orders disclosure of deleters of records
- Pirate Party leader imprisoned during DEB debate?
- DEB passage was a circus of technology illiteracy
- One ISP says it will not honor DEB disconnect orders
- Further research on using memristors’ memory, logic capabilities
- Another EEG-based mind-machine interface
Digital Economy Bill is Passed
Now the UK can claim bragging rights for having the worst digital copyright law in the world, instead of us here in the US. Yay for them.
Seriously, this is terrible news. I crack wise to keep from weeping in frustration for my friends and acquaintances who now have to live with this horrible legislation.
Mike Masnick at Techdirt is the first among my feeds to report the story though I saw it on Twitter just a bit before that. Masnick does a very thorough job of explaining just how much of a mockery of democratic process the passage was. Dissenting voices were squashed and erroneous, largely made up facts were cited. A vague promise to fix the bill’s problems after the coming election was promised. We all know how that story ends. It is very unlikely any reform effort will be launched, let alone an effective one.
I suspect that Mike is also right in his conclusion that a few months time will see this law having little to no effect on the health of the entertainment industry in Britain. In the wake of Hadopi, France’s three strike law, piracy actually increased. Of course, industry lobbyists probably see that as justification for the powers granted by clause 18 of DEB, the ability for the government to amend copyright further outside of the legislative process. As Masnick notes, even though the clause itself was dropped, its contents still made it through to passage.
The worst, if Mike is right, is considering the question of what the entertainment industry will try next If three strikes fails to shore up their struggling business model. Zero tolerance? Precognitive law suits? You knew that this ratcheting up of copyright doesn’t have a stop, right?
I do wonder if this most aggressive expansion of copyright yet will provide some real world substantiation to Jessica Litman’s hypothesis that overreaching copyright may result in the audience considering it illegitimate. That outcome would be a shame because a more functional copyright system often does what is intended, providing incentives for creators to create. Abandoning copyright altogether isn’t a good idea for anyone, not the creators, the intermediaries or the audience.
Following Up for the Week Ending 4/4/2010
- LibDems won’t fight for DEB debate
- LibDems won’t support DEB at all
- BPI has strong feels on DEB, won’t explain them though
- Labour MP submits motion for full debate on DEB
- More reasons to stop the DEB, problems for orphan works
- Tenebaum and attorney ordered to pay RIAA’s legal fees
- Jury now deliberating Unix ownership in SCO trial
- Jury rules Unix copyrights didn’t go to SCO
- Winners out of 1100 applications for Google fiber to be announced byEOY
- School laptop spying cases prompts rethink of Wiretap Act
- EU pressuring Canada to change its IP laws
- Verizon, Google band together against FCC regulation of broadband
- China clamps down on uncensored Google search
- Judge rules warrantless wiretaps in Al-Haramain case were illegal
- Microsoft’s appeal in i4i case denied
TCLP 2010-03-28 News
This is news cast 210, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, thanks to new donors this week, Rhonda and Jonathan. Also a very quick update on the badge experiment.
This week’s security alerts are attackers using attack-in-depth and security alerts for Gmail.
In this week’s news a detailed proposal for copyright reform, a side channel info leak despite web encryption, Chris Soghoian and Sid Stamm publish a paper on SSL spoofing and EFF proposes some means to deal with it, and considering whether math skills are essential for programmers.
Following up this week constitutional concerns over ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill is set to go to vote without further public debate.
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