May 19, 2012
- We make jokes on this blog about what would happen if every word was under copyright and every time you wrote something you had to get a license for each word. So look %26lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120222/03153517838/pointless-copyright-freakout-over-pinterest.shtml"%26gt;at Mike Masnick's post over on Techdirt%26lt;/a%26gt;. People make collages of photographs; the individual photographers are mad because they own the individual pictures. The point is: this should be fair...
According to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Poland, BitTorrent’s uTP protocol is under attack.The security experts have observed a massive spike in activity compared to 2011, originating from centralized locations in Russia, Canada, China, Australia and the USA...
May 18, 2012
Ever since the early days of peer-to-peer file-sharing clients, unscrupulous companies have tried to trade on the naivety of Internet users just beginning to engage with the P2P world.
For more than a decade the mode of operation employed by these companies has followed a similar pattern. Pick the most famous or popular file-sharing client of the day, use flashy websites and confusing domain names to attract users who can’t tell an imposter from the real thing, lull them in with...
On Thursday, Comcast announced plans to raise its data caps from 250 GB per month to 300 GB in some areas.
In the coming months the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA.The parties agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warned that their behavior is unacceptable. After six warnings ISPs may then take a variety of repressive measures, which include slowing down...
World Press Freedom Day came and went earlier this month. While it’s important to take a day to recognize our right to speak and share information, threats to our First Amendment freedoms happen all the time, everywhere.
It's a threat that will become very real on the streets of Chicago this weekend as a new breed of journalists and onlookers attempt to cover the protests surrounding the NATO summit....
Chrome extension removes most of Pandora's advertisements, allows users to customize parts of the layout, creates a Pandora music player desktop window for playback control, scrobbles music to Last.fm, and more.
I've...The Pirate Bay has suffered censorship in many countries across Europe but the recent steps against the torrent site in the UK have generated a much bigger response than similar actions previously taken against the site elsewhere.
It’s not absolutely clear why this is the case but it’s certainly possible that the cross-continent shared understanding of the English language...
- Ars Technica has a good article on the Trans Pacific Partnership and the copyright concerns raised by the proposed agreement.
