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08 December 2012
Iran's Latest Move To Stifle Dissent: Requiring ID Cards To Go Online
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For a while, Techdirt has been tracking Iran's continuing efforts to throttle its citizens' access to troublesome materials onlin...
German Court Holds Internet User Responsible For Passing On Unknown, Encrypted File
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A natural response to the increasingly harsh enforcement of laws against unauthorized sharing of copyright files is to move to encrypted ...
How Do You Say 'Twitter Joke Trial' In Chinese?
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Techdirt wrote about how the UK's Twitter Joke conviction dragged its slow way through the various appeals before finally being resol...
As Feared, Brazil's 'Anti-ACTA' Marco Civil Killed Off By Lobbyists
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A couple of weeks ago, we worried that Brazil's innovative "Marco Civil", a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, ...
Gathering Evidence for a Fact-Based Copyright Policy
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As I noted at the time, perhaps the most revolutionary aspect of the Hargreaves Review of copyright in the digital age was simply the i...
Wearing V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes Masks Declared Illegal In Dubai
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The evolution of the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask from a clever element in a comic book and film to a meme and a global symbol of onl...
Munich Shows How Open Source Saves Big Money
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Recently I've written about several moves towards mandating openness in various ways - in the UK, Spain and Portugal. That's al...
Early-Morning Raid Sent To Confiscate 9-Year-Old's Winnie The Pooh Laptop For Downloading Music
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One of the biggest problems with the current approach to dealing with alleged copyright infringement is the totally disproportionate natu...
Portugal Moves Forward on Open Standards
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A couple of weeks ago, I was reviewing Spain's move to open standards. The good news is that elsewhere on the Iberian peninsular, ...
Supplying The Missing Ingredient In Evidence-Based Policymaking: Evidence
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It seems extraordinary that in the area of copyright it is only recently that people have started to consider the evidence before formul...
How Open Data Can Save Money - and Lives
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Yesterday I was writing about open access and open data in the context of the EU' s Horizon 2020 initiative. Closer to home, I came...
Why Was It Poland That Led The European Revolt Against ACTA?
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In retrospect, it is now clear that the pivotal moment in the campaign against ACTA was last January, when thousands of people took to t...
Horizon 2020: Defending Open Access and Open Data
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At the end of last year, I wrote about the important Horizon 2020 initiative. Here's how it describes itself : On Open Enterprise blo...
Stuxnet's Infection Of Chevron Shows Why 'Weaponized' Malware Is A Bad Idea
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The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints . It...
Copyright Hardliners Adapt 'Copyright Reform' Language; They Just Mean In The Other Direction
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Neelie Kroes has emerged as perhaps the most Net-savvy politician in the European Commission, with her repeated calls for a new approach ...
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...
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