- Professor Nesson to advise on Thomas-Rasset re-trial, Recording Industry vs. the People
- Third Thomas-Rasset trial begins, Ars Technica
- Arguments in the Thomas-Rasset retrial, Ars Technica
- Mass resignations from OpenOffice.org, The H
- EFF defends former prosecutor from Righthaven, Wired
- Update on Paul Allen’s mass patent infringement suit, Groklaw
- Apache’s Java project defends itself from Oracle’s copying claims, The H
- More on New Zealand’s guilty until proven innocent three strikes plan, BoingBoing
- Google WiFi data snarfing broke UK law but no penalty forthcoming, Ars Technica
- OLPC’s next generation tablet delayed, The H
Tag: three strikes
Following Up for the Week Ending 10/31/2010
- KEI letter to European Parliament regarding ACTA, KEI
- US says it will basically ignore anything in ACTA it doesn’t like, Techdirt
- Prominent law professors urge Obama to end ACTA endorsement, Techdirt
- Scholars say ACTA needs Senate approval, Wired
- India concerned how ACTA changes previous trade agreements, Techdirt
- How ACTA changes secondary liability into criminal aiding and abetting, Techdirt
- Google, et. al. respond to Paul Allen with motion to dismiss, sever, Groklaw
- OOo community council members resign, The H
- Hadopi already sending out 240K first strike notices per day, Techdirt
- Secretive negotiations over three strikes regime in Denmark, TorrentFreak
- EFF urges EU authorities to repeal Data Retention Directive, EFF
- Facts, figures on South Korea’s three strikes system, Michael Geist
- Court orders LimeWire to shut off P2P service, Ars Technica
- FTC ending its inquiry into Google’s WiFi data snarfing, Ars Technica
- Could a $105 defense stop copyright-troll lawsuits?, Wired
- Impressive uptake of HTML5 based video playback, ReadWriteWeb
- Oracle claims Google directly copied Java code, Slashdot
- EFF files suit against Justice over push to broaden surveillance laws, EFF
Following Up for the Week Ending 10/17/2010
- HTC is wilfully violating the GPL with its G2 anti-root measures, Freedom to Tinker
- More on the G2’s anti-rooting measures, Ars Technica
- Professors bring white-spaces broadband to working-class Houston, Ars Technica
- Problems remaining with ACTA draft, in particular turning non-commercial sharing into commercial piracy, Techdirt
- Where ACTA disagrees with US law, Techdirt
- US Senator seeks legal review of ACTA, Michael Geist
- Labels fail to force three strikes on Ireland, Techdirt
- American P2P law firms are now threatening each other, Ars Technica
- School settles laptop spying case, Ars Technica
- USPTO’s peer-to-patent program may be coming back, Techdirt
- EFF asks appeals court to review troubling first-sale decision, EFF
- Oracle pledges to support OpenOffice.org, PC World, via Groklaw
- Holding Nokia responsible for surveilling dissidents in Iran, EFF
- Amazon wins one-click patent fight–in Canada, The Globe and Mail
- Would US officials really decide not to sign ACTA?, Techdirt
- Final day of appeals for The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak
Following Up for the Week Ending 8/8/2010
- Appeal of iiNet case begins
- Day 2 of iiNet appeal
- Day 3 of iiNet appeal
- Day 4 of iiNet appeal
- Does net neutrality violate the 5th Amendment?
- Key lawmaker urges approval of Comcast-NBCU merger without net neutrality conditions
- Telcos close to negotiating a neutrality deal to their liking
- Software will be unpatentable in NZ
HT Wild Webmink - Letter to abolish software patents in Australia
- Hadopi’s secret internet spying spec is leaked
- Criticisms of NZ’s proposed three strikes law
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.
Following Up for the Week Ending 6/27/2010
- Why Google’s WiFi data collection was inadvertent
- Google claims WiFi data collection legal in the US
- A crusade against the net’s “regulatory uncertainty”
- Court appoints special master to bring RIAA, Thomas case to settlement
- USCG tries to argue that P2P architecture supports joining suit against 5000 defendants
- Potential opportunity to look at technology used by USCG
- All opposition parties against digital locks in Canada’s C-32
- Music industry demands Google stop linking to The Pirate Bay
- Experts say ACTA threatens public interest
- EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages
Via Wild Webmink. - Scope of monitoring for French three strikes law revealed
- Proprietary vendor steps in to support TurboHercules’ antitrust complaint against IBM
- More pressure, this time at Congresional hearing, to update federal wiretap laws
- A Canadian creator’s response to the label of “radical extremism”
feeds | grep links > Apple Collecting Location Data, Appeals Court Weakens Public Domain, and More
- New Apple terms allow collection, share of precise, real time location
Cory was the first in my feeds to post this story at Boing Boing. Firstly I am glad that I am moving away from OSX so avoiding this upgrade is an easy choice, especially since my iPod won’t run iOS 4. The second thought I had was how this compares, poorly, to similar data collection I allow from a couple of software projects I use daily. Those projects don’t collect anything but usage and crash data on the applications in question and require an opt-in. That Apple is collecting such fraught information, regardless of anonymization, and not giving users a choice is frankly quite horrid. - Appeals court rules works can be pulled back out of the public domain
Mike Masnick at Techdirt has the bad news. The appeal was in the Golan case which is a bit more complicated than usual as it involves a trade agreement, the means through which a lot of copyright expansion occurs under the guise of normalization. As Masnick explains, the lower court ruling decided in favor of the First Amendment, reigning in the URAA’s attempt to allow re-enclosing some works. The appeals court’s logic in reversing the lower court is non-existent, merely declaring that copyright law “addresses a substantial or important governmental interest.” - A few examples of using Google’s new command line tool
Via Cory at Boing Boing. Sadly, I have to wait for or manually compile a library update before I can try these out for myself. Still think it is kewl as all get out. - EFF, others speak out against expansion of rights to cover “hot news”
- Tech companies also step in to speak against “hot news”
- Major labels start astroturfing for three strikes in the US
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 5/31/2010
- H.264 and VP-8 compared, with still frame examples
- WebM data points, mostly positive
- More criticism of Genachowski’s “Third Way” for net neutrality
- Rep. Doyle backs Title II reclassification
- Three strikes starting in Ireland this week
- Peter Watts discusses his arrest at the US border
- US Copyright Group now threatening protective ISPs with inducement
- US Copyright Group initiates 5K suits on behalf of “Hurt Locker”
- EFF guide to maximizing privacy with new Facebook settings
- User is suing Facebook in wake of changes
- Google dragging feet over requests for WiFi data from regulators
- KTorrent first to adopt uTP
- Larger stakes of Google/Viacom case
- Creators step in to defend YouTube
- UK three strikes could threaten coffee ships, libraries
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