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 [...]
Just last Monday the Spanish parliament viewed the latest draft of the Sustainable Economy Act. This law is designed to change current copyright laws to allow the Spanish Ministry of Culture to take down websites (both domestic and international) by blocking their viewing from Spanish ISPs all without court order. All of this is done [...]
There is a Danish law that makes it illegal to remove the DRM from any digital media. Of course, in order to rip DVDs to your hard drive for personal use (which is legal) you must remove the DRM to do so. Danish citizen Henrik Anderson decided to push back against this unjust copyright law [...]