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Reports on piracy are like buses: you wait for ever, and then three come at once. In a way, that's not surprising. To begin with, the c...

Sometimes it seems like I've written the same story about UK government IT plans again and again. You know the one: after years of empty...

You may have come across this sad tale : According to the Swiss Open Systems User Group, /ch/openSwitzerland, the Swiss Federal Supreme Cour...

As promised, I append below a near-final draft of my response to the European Commission's consultation on IPRED. Once again, I urge you...

An extremely feeble article in the Guardian parrots the recording industry's line that piracy is killing music: Global recorded music ...

Here's another of those entertaining IDC reports commissioned by Microsoft: Today, global research firm IDC issued a new white paper whi...

The oceans belong to everyone - well, more or less. That is, they form a classic commons. But of course, that fact doesn't stop people...

This is just some quick advance warning that the deadline for submitting comments to the IPRED consultation is drawing near: 31 March 2011. ...

Time for some more of that fashionable “open” goodness: Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world — Deuts...

Copyright is based on a social contract. In return for a government-enforced, time-limited monopoly, artists create - the idea being that w...

Time magazine has one of those tiresome list thingies: "10 Ideas That Will Change the World" (pretentious, moi?). To its credit, ...

One of the striking features of reports purporting to estimate the “damage” caused by piracy - both of software and content - is that withou...

I was pleased to discover last night that the video of my talk at FSCONS last November is now available: Glyn Moody - Keynote: Ethics of I...

One of the things that interests me is the way that the ideas underlying open source are being applied in other fields. That's something...

One of the reasons why I find the whole Nokia saga so fascinating is that the reasoning behind what is clearly a move of huge importance for...

We are entering a post-PC world – or so we are told. But is that good or bad for open source? The open source world has been fixated so long...

So the publishing dinosaurs have got together and produced an egg: The Berlin Declaration on the Future of the Digital Press. Unfortunatel...

Craig Venter is a bit tiresome at times, but indubitably clever. And to prove his cleverness (again) when he was creating artificial life, ...

When I first started writing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in 2007, practically no one had heard of it. That wasn...

A couple of weeks ago I posted in full the near-final version of my submission to the UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth (so...

Back in August last year, I wrote the following: we no longer live in a simple binary world of Internet Explorer as the dominant player and ...

When I was reviewing the fall-out from Nokia's decision to stake its future on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 system, I mentioned paren...

For the last 15 years we have been living in a Microsoft monoculture, which has had very real knock-on consequences for everyone online – no...

One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by ...

Anyone who has been following me on Twitter or identi.ca will have noticed that I have a bee in my bonnet - actually, make that a Beeb in ...