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10 June 2012
TomTom Kicks Off FUD Campaign Against 'Dangerous' Open Source Mapping
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Recently, Techdirt wrote about the increasing number of Web sites that were dumping Google Maps and turning to OpenStreetMap (OSM) inste...
North Korean Study Confirms It: People Will Share, Whatever The Risks
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the ever-increasing storage capacity of portable hard drives made it unlikely that the sharing ...
Help To Save The World: Go Online
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Too often we read that the Internet is making us stupid or fat , or destroying the "fabric of society." Indeed, judging by th...
Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%
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Techflaws alerts us to an announcement by ZPÜ, the organization responsible for setting the levy on storage media in Germany, that fees ...
Last Chance to Save True Open Standards in UK
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Since today is a Bank Holidayin the UK, I hope that a few of you might take the opportunity to make a submission to the UK consultation on...
Beyond Open Access: Open Source Scientific Software
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Although the traditional image of a science laboratory typically consists of a room full of test tubes or microscopes, the reality is tha...
'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'
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Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fig...
Chinese Microblog Service Introduces Five-Strike Program To Block 'Rumors' And 'Evil Teachings'
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In a country where the mainstream media is tightly controlled, Chinese microblogs have provided an invaluable way for millions of people ...
Stopping ACTA: DEVE Committee
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Most people have concentrated on the ITRE, JURI and LIBE committees (as I did in my previous posts this week). But there's a fourth ...
EU Politicians Snub European Commission: Do Not See IP Protection As Key To Internal Security Strategy
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One of the most dishonest aspects of ACTA was its attempt to equate genuinely dangerous products like fake medicines with totally harmless...
Stopping ACTA: JURI and LIBE Committees
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Yesterday I posted my submission to the ITRE committee; today I include my email to the JURI (legal affairs) and LIBE (civial liberties) ...
How Much Would It Cost To Pre-Screen YouTube Videos? About $37 Billion Per Year...
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Last week we reported that videos were currently being uploaded to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and asked how anybody c...
Stopping ACTA: ITRE Committee
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This is the first of my posts about the various committees that will be offering their recommendations to the European Parliament through ...
Which is Worse -- Sharing With Attribution, Or Plagiarism Without?
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At the end of last year we wrote about the case of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Federal Minister of Defense in Germany, who lost b...
ACTA Doomsday Approaches - Please Help
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I have been writing about ACTA here for what seems several centuries. The good news is that I will stop doing that soon, because the key v...
Spotify In A Box: Why Sharing Will Never Be Stopped
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Most people will be familiar with Moore's Law , usually stated in the form that processing power doubles every two years (or 18 month...
Greece Stares Into the Abyss; Meanwhile, Local Music And Audiovisual Collecting Society Gets Court Order To Block Web Sites
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As you may have heard, Greece is having a spot of bother at the moment. Its economy shrank by 6.2% in the last three months alone , and th...
Which Would You Rather Have: The Planet, Or A Patent?
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One of the more controversial approaches to the already controversial field of climate change is geoengineering, which Wikipedia defines ...
Generics Drive Down Drug Prices In India, TPP Trying To Stop That
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Back in March, we wrote about an important development in India, where a compulsory license for Bayer's Nexavar anti-cancer drug was g...
Opening Up About the Open Data Institute
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As I've noted before, open data is one area where the UK government shines - unlike open source, where it has yet to deliver the goods...
YouTube Uploads Hit 72 Hours A Minute: How Can That Ever Be Pre-Screened For 'Objectionable' Material?
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YouTube has announced that 72 hours of video is now being uploaded to its service every minute . Earlier this year, the statistic was tha...
As UK Government Considers Opt-Out Porn Censorship, Report Already Finds Overblocking On Mobile Networks
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A few weeks ago, we noted the UK government was considering plans to bring in an opt-out form of censorship, in what would amount to a kin...
Some Countries Want To Fix TPP... By Making It More Like ACTA
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ACTA and TPP have much in common, but the way in which they represents two aspects of the same impulse has never been shown more clearly ...
BSA Piracy Study: Mere Shadow Boxing?
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So, once again, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has come out with its annual report on software piracy around the world, entitled &q...
Should People Learn To Code? Yes – If They Are Judges Ruling On Cases Involving Software
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Recently Techdirt wrote about the heated debate on the subject of whether people should learn to code. We pointed out that some knowled...
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