There is a lot of controversy surrounding the recent ACTA proposals now that the 2006 document is circulating and gaining momentum. If you’ve been following tech news at all then you’ll know ACTA is an attempt to make a global DMCA-plus of sorts that would protect intellectual property rights worldwide — changing many countries existing [...]
Our friends across the Atlantic seem to get slammed with the worst of ideas from their legislators. First there was the Pirate Finder General with his near-unlimited power to hunt down music and film pirates. Now the content industries have found a way to force the consumer to pay collectively for the faults of a [...]
Everyone knows it is wrong to bypass the copyright on music and acquire or resell it illegally. This is what the recording industry has termed piracy — though roaming bit-waves on your Internet-boat and swashbuckling for treasure maps leading to songs isn’t what actually happens. In any case the recording industry hasn’t received the piracy [...]
I was checking out Cryptome the other day, as we geeks often do, and came across the Lawful Spying documents they’ve been posting. Cryptome is a site that routinely posts recently released FIA documents and other publicly accessible data. The Lawful Spying documents are basically compliance guides for law enforcement. They show how much data [...]