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08 December 2012
A Tale of Two Lock-ins
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Yesterday I was reviewing Mozilla's current position in the browser sector and its wider achievements in the Web world. One thing ...
Recording Industry Rep Suggests Parents Should Slap Their Children To Stop Piracy
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One of the many problems with the "guilty until proven innocent" approach to tackling unauthorized filesharing is that it's...
Electronic Versions Of Textbooks Spy On Students As They Read Them
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The rapid uptake of ebooks by the public shows that there is a widespread recognition of their advantages. This would be good news for ...
Mozilla's Big Comeback
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Mozilla is now something of a venerable institution in the open source world - the first release of browser code by Netscape took place ...
Thailand To Join TPP Negotiations; Access To Medicines Likely To Suffer As A Consequence
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Although things have gotten rather quiet on the TPP front, that doesn't mean that the juggernaut has been halted. On the contrary: ...
Three Strikes Is Out? UK Judges Rule Internet Ban Is 'Unreasonable', Even For Sex Offenders
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Last week, Techdirt wrote about a US teenager being banned from using the Internet until his 21st birthday as punishment for his involv...
Russia Blacklists Cultural Wiki Without Explanation, Site Just Moves To Circumvent Block
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Techdirt has been following the worsening censorship situation in Russia for some time. Back in July, the country's parliament passe...
From Open Government to Open Contracting
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One of the rationales behind opening up government data is that it provides greater transparency. That's particularly true in the fi...
Spain Too Requires RF for Open Standards
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Last week I wrote a piece suggesting that FRAND is dying. It was written in the wake of the major UK decision on open standards, and wa...
Will Brazil's 'Anti-ACTA' Marco Civil Be Subverted By Copyright Lobbyists At The Last Moment?
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Just over a year ago Techdirt wrote about Brazil's Marco Civil -- essentially a civil-rights based framework for the Internet. At t...
11 November 2012
Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on the New Lock-in
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Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That intervie...
Australian Government Announces That It Is Dropping Mandatory ISP Filtering...But Still Wants Filtering
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Techdirt has been writing about Australia's plans to join the online censorship club for almost three years. Now, in a surprise mov...
Is FRAND Dying?
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Last week's big announcement by the UK government was principally about procurement, detailing the new rules that will apply when g...
The Irresistible Rise of Android
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In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...
German Company Wants To Protect Its Use Of The '@' Sign: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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A little while back, Techdirt wrote about a rather brave French company that tried to trademark the Anonymous logo. Now Der Spiegel is r...
Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists
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The laws governing intellectual monopolies in the UK are in a state of flux at the moment. After the previous government in its dying ho...
Forget Patents: Why Open Source Licensing Concepts May Lead To Biotech Innovation
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One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or ...
Finally: UK Open Standards are RF, not FRAND
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In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down ...
How Crowdsourcing Can Solve Otherwise Intractable Real-World Problems
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Although crowdsourcing is all the rage at the moment, there has to be a worry that this is just the latest fad in the world of technology...
How To Use One Superfan To Spread The Word To Millions
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Techdirt has been a great believer in connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy for many years , but it's always interesti...
Open Source Outlook in UK Government still Cloudy?
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I've been noting "hopeful" moves towards the wider use of open source by the UK government for so long that I daren't d...
From Open Source to Crowdfunding
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One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards o...
How A Drone Might Save Your Life
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There is a natural tendency to accentuate the negative when it comes to drones -- concentrating on how these "spies the sky" re...
Give Your Views on Europe's Digital Future
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As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of consultations: if they are asking us what we think, we really ought not pass up the chance...
Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples'
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Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of other sites that have tried to ...
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