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26 July 2014
Wireless Mesh Networks, The NSA, And Re-building The Internet
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One of the bitter lessons we learned from Snowden's leaks is that the Internet has been compromised by the NSA (with some help from ...
After Muzzling Scientists, Canadian Government Now Moves On To Book Burnings
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Techdirt has been tracking the sorry saga of Canada's assault on free speech for a while, as it first muzzled scientists and librari...
Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written
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As Techdirt has noted many times, much of the debate around filesharing is driven by dogma rather than data. That's beginning to cha...
25 July 2014
Russian Authorities Threaten To Block CloudFlare And Other Key Infrastructural Sites
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This is getting boring. Every time Techdirt writes about Russian Internet blocking, it's along the lines of: "just when we th...
After 20 Years, It's Clear NAFTA Has Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits; So Why Trust TPP, TTIP Will Be Better?
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Both TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are based on the premise that by boosting trade and investment, general prosperity will increase too. And yet, d...
How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing
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Here on Techdirt we often discuss economics in the absence of scarcity -- how the ability to make any number of digital copies for vanis...
Italy's Communications Watchdog Assigns Itself Extrajudicial Powers To Order ISPs To Stop Copyright Infringement
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The last six months have seen a fierce debate in Italy over a proposal by the Italian communications watchdog Agcom to grant itself wide-...
European Commission Admits It Plans To Put 'Corporate Christmas List' Of IP Demands Into TAFTA/TTIP
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A few months ago, we quoted the EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht , who is responsible for handling the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations on the...
European Commissioner Claims 'Nothing Secret' About TAFTA/TTIP, Tries To Defend Corporate Sovereignty
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After lurking in the shadows for a few months, the mega transatlantic trade deal TAFTA/TTIP is starting to hit the mainstream media. Her...
Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If They Move Markets
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It's become quite common to pay online writers more if their stories cause surges in traffic for the site. It has recently emerged t...
Why Tribunals Imposing Corporate Sovereignty Are Even More Dangerous Than We Thought
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Back in October, we introduced the term " corporate sovereignty " as an alternative to the standard but misleading phrase &quo...
Copyright Strikes Again: No Online Access To UK Internet Archive
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Last week we wrote about how Norway had come up with a way to provide online access to all books in Norwegian, including the most rece...
CERN Announces Nearly All High-Energy Physics Articles Will Switch To Open Access -- The Largest-Ever OA Initiative
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One of the key insights driving open access is that if all the money currently paid by libraries and other institutions for subscription...
59 Bootleg Beatles Tracks Released Officially -- For All The Wrong Reasons
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Back in January, Sony released the 'Bob Dylan Copyright Collection Volume'. As its name shamelessly proclaims, that was purely ...
New Creative Commons Licenses Released For Intergovernmental Organizations
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Even though Creative Commons licenses have only been in existence for just over a decade, it's now hard to imagine the online world ...
As Yet Another Free Trade Agreement Fails To Deliver, Why Should People Believe USTR's Claims About TPP's Huge Benefits?
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As the US applies more and more pressure to the other nations taking part in the secret TPP negotiations in an attempt to get them to acc...
Data Retention Directive Incompatible With Fundamental Rights According To EU Court Of Justice's Advocate General
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Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about two important cases before Europe's highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Un...
Legal Challenges To Spying Mount In UK
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It's taken a while for Europeans to recover from the discovery that they are being spied upon by the NSA (with some help from its fr...
Norway To Digitize All Norwegian Books, Allowing Domestic IP Addresses To Read All Of Them, Irrespective Of Copyright Status
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Here's a pretty amazing story from Norway : On Techdirt .
Bringing Transparency Back To The Patent System With 'Innovation Cartography'
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As Techdirt has noted many times, the patent system is broken, and in various ways. One major problem is the way it inhibits innovation, ...
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