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24 July 2014
India's Approach To Pharma Patents Under US Attack, But Other BRICS Nations Likely To Adopt It
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Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...
IETF Begins To Work On Designing A Surveillance-Resistant Net
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Edward Snowden's leaks show that the NSA and GCHQ have been systematically subverting key technologies that underlie the Internet. ...
How Much Does Gold-Plated Corporate Sovereignty Cost? $1 Billion Or About 2% Of A Developing Country's GDP
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Last week we wrote about the rising threat of corporate sovereignty , known more obscurely as "investor-state dispute settlement&quo...
TTIP Update VI
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In my previous TTIP update , I reported on an extremely important leak about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which is the...
Turning Mozilla Thunderbird into a Phoenix
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I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...
Resisting Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale III
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(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...
Resisting Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale II
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(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...
Resisting Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale I
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Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...
Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO, on EME and DRM
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A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...
TTIP Update V
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Today's update is a little odd, since it's not actually about TAFTA /TTIP, at least not directly. Although the second round is t...
TTIP Update IV
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One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...
Behold the Bankruptcy of Software Patents
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You may recall back in 2011, there was an extraordinary bidding war for the patents of Nortel Networks: On Open Enterprise blog.
Help: EU Net Neutrality Consultation Closes Today
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As you may recall, back in September the European Commission finally came out with its proposals for net neutrality, part of its larger...
The Coming Chinese Android Invasion
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Remember all those years ago, when people laughed at the first Android phones (which were, to tell the truth, pretty clunky, but still......
2009: Man Buys 5000 Bitcoins For $27, Forgets About Them. 2013: Man Rediscovers His Bitcoins, Now Worth $886,000
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Bitcoin shares with drones the unhappy distinction of being the subject of almost exclusively negative reports. Just as drones are usuall...
European Court Of Justice Hands Down Big Win For Transparency in Europe
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After a five-year battle by Access Info Europe , Europe's highest court has made an important ruling that will help boost transparency...
Russia's Leading Social Network VKontakte Cleared Of Copyright Infringement
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VKontakte is not only the largest social networking site in Russia, but is also one of the biggest unauthorized repositories of copyright...
Bruce Schneier On The Feudal Internet And How To Fight It
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There aren't many upsides to Snowden's revelations that NSA is essentially spying on the entire Internet, all the time, but if on...
Trade Agreements Are Designed To Give Companies Corporate Sovereignty
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One of the difficulties of making people aware of the huge impact that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in TPP and TAFT...
Wikipedia Fights Back Against Socking
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The idea that Wikipedia is dying has become one of the Internet's recurrent stories. Because something used by so many people eve...
EU Data Protection Proposal Gets Stronger, But With Big Loopholes
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One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection . Because of its...
India Wants Students And Researchers To Have The Right To Photocopy Books
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Techdirt has run several stories about the difficulties students in emerging economies have when it comes to buying expensive study ma...
European Commission: ACTA Is Dead, Long Live ACTA?
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The first six months of 2012 saw Europeans taking to the streets in order to kill off ACTA in the European Union. Against all the odds, ...
Stand Back, I'm About to Do Some Posting....
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Apologies for the silence, I've been a bit busy, what with TTIP, ISDS, UK open standards, data retention, EU copyright review and much ...
02 February 2014
Interview: Eben Moglen - "surveillance becomes the hidden service wrapped inside everything"
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(This was original published in The H Open in March 2010.) Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web c...
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