To continue this thread of service providers being forced to police their network, I am not saying that copyright infringement is a ‘right,’ just that onus must remain on the individual. In the Naster Ruling, Judge Patel stated that ‘a defendant incurs liability for vicarious copyright infringement if he “has the right and ability to [...]
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File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs – Tech News – CNET.com‘Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers’ actions.’ At first glance, this may seem like nothing new, record companies clamping down on file-trading services. But the method they [...]
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UK Protest – 1300 Friday 3 August ‘There will be a protest held outside the US Embassy in London, on Friday 3 August, calling for the immediate release of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer who was arrested by the FBI for creating software which circumvented the copyright protection mechanism in Adobe’s eBook Reader. ‘Adobe has [...]
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Alternative Media Outlets The more ‘anti-globalisation’ talks I go to (that seems to have become the buzzword for everything activism-related today- and my experience of it all is usually through some detached academic lens), the more it seems many people are in it for the culture more than for the ‘movement.’ These two groups happily [...]
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Also on the surveillance tip: CIPHERWAR: Jam Echelon Day 2001 ‘October 21st has been designated “JAM ECHELON DAY” and on that day we are encouraging email messages to be sent out in great numbers, containing as many ‘trigger words’ as possible. (There is a list of 1700 on the web site.) While the goal of [...]
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Encrypting your email GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard) ‘GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application.’ HushMail HushMail is web-based encryption. ‘HushMail messages, and their attachments, are encrypted using OpenPGP standard [...]
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<nettime> taming the wild web A short post at nettime that takes the LA Times wild-west article mentioned earlier in context with Dmitri Sklyarov’s incarceration. – – – – – – – -
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CEASE AND DESIST Chilling effects: monitoring the legal climate for Internet Activity ‘How often are legal threats used to silence Internet activity? Help us to find out and counter baseless threats with the “chilling effects clearinghouse.”’ ‘This website is a prototype for a project being developed by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the [...]
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A priceless Ditherati quote today: ‘The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn’t excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists’ Quoting from the LA Times article,Taming the Wild, Wild Web.
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More opinions on Richard Stallman: Salon 21st | The Richard Stallman saga, redux WIRED’s selected archives on Stallman An ode to Richard Stallman – – – – – – – - Nick Taylor, who recently made an example of this site as ‘an extrordinary candidate of a site that I would consider to be not [...]