In the struggle for the rights of online journalists, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has seen a small victory in the Apple vs. Does case it is working on. Despite claims that the documents were a trade secret, Apple was ordered by the court to let the defendant’s lawyers look at information about Apple’s internal investigation Read more »
In case you read German: There is a nice evaluation of online music stores on netzpolitik.org: Passend zur Popkomm haben wir uns nochmal genauer die ganzen tollen neuen Downloadshops angesehen, welche in den kommenden Tagen in den höchsten Tönen gepriesen werden. Als Verbraucher interessierte uns, welche Datenformate verwendet werden können, welche Informationen angeboten werden und Read more »
Confused by the myriad of positions WIPO member states have adopted towards the Development Agenda? The EFF is there to help you. They have sifted through mountains of paper (or, more likely, pdf files) and come up with a table listing the positions of key WIPO members. An explanatory text is here, together with some Read more »
The new edition of the bi-weekly EDRI-gram newsletter is out. 1. UK Presidency attacks European Convention of Human Rights 2. UK police workshop and paper on data retention 3. New French anti-terrorism surveillance plans 4. Preview Montreux conference Data Protection Authorities 5. UK wants to ban viewing of violent porn 6. Finnish ISPs must voluntarily Read more »
My old friend Tom Giovanetti on ipblog.org finally is back in shape. While I do know a number of cholerics, he is the only one who can actually write cholerically in a credible manner. This time, he has taken issue with an article by Larry Lessig in Wired magazine. Lessig highlights the real risk behind Read more »
Waiting for patch day, eh? ZDNet is running a story titled “Microsoft security chief bitten by rogue dialler”: “Gibson revealed that he has recently been hit by a £450 bill from BT after his computer was infected with a rogue dialler.” In case you wondered why there are so many security holes in the world’s Read more »
Yesterday, Reuters ran a story about the upcoming GPLv3 process. It was based on the official GPLv3 press release (also here) and a telephone discussion with Georg Greve, the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. While there are really enough factual news to go around, Reuters picked up on two possible issues to address Read more »
The Financial Times has an article on the Public Patent Foundation, set up by US attorney Dan Ravicher (who has also done some Free Software work with FSF in the past). The foundation mainly reviews pharma patents which they believe to be bad for the public. If they find that the patent should not have Read more »
Sorry I didn’t do anything for almost a month now. I whish it was due to my being on vacation, on a sunny, sandy beach. Unfortunately, my apparent inactivity was really due to my being extremely busy. Fortunately, pretty much everyone else was on vacation, so I didn’t miss too much. Now things are slowly Read more »
After a thorough railroad sauna session, I arrived at What The Hack! Festival in Liempde, near Eindhoven, Netherlands. Even though the weather is so-so, the mood is pretty good. Relaxed in any case. I’m looking forward to a lot of interesting presentations. Mine, on WIPO and the Development Agenda (surprise), will take place on Saturday Read more »