Starting today, the Japanese government is going to fingerprint all visitors. As can be seen in the brochure, a print of each index finger will be taken, like the USA’s procedure. It seems to me that the most fitting protest would be for annoyed travellers to wear one-fingered gloves or plasters of an agreed colour Read more »
Groklaw has just published an interview with Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s Future Media and Technology Director – the department responsible for the development of the DRM’d iPlayer software: Groklaw interview: Ashley Highfield on iPlayer On the positive side, he says: …the long-term alternative solution is a world beyond DRM and how we can work together, Read more »
(Correction in progress. I wrongly announced the release of the second discussion draft but the final version was actually released.) FSF have just published the 2nd draft of the GNU Affero GPL. The GNU Affero GPL will be a modified version of GPLv3. The difference, very roughly, is that it includes a requirement that if Read more »
Sean Daly has posted a second interview about the BBC’s DRM-infested iPlayer software: Groklaw interview: Becky Hogge on iPlayer It’s an informative interview, and I agree with Ms. Hogge’s call for the BBC to stop using DRM, but I don’t share her motivations. Ms. Hogge talks about "balancing interests between" the UK public and the Read more »