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Tag Archives: Social Comment
The US Digital Millenium Copyright Act
This was a paper I wrote for the third year of my Computer Science bachelor degree in 2004. It’s obviously relatively old now, but the DMCA still exists and I thought I might post it here – researching the paper was how I was introduced to the DMCA, and I was reminded of it when [...]
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New Swedish IPRED big-content lovin’ law: “Totally F**king Bats**t Insane”
Jesper of Waffle Software writes on a directive (the IPRED EU directive) written into Swedish law recently that gives ‘rights holders’, provided that they can display ‘cursory evidence’, powers well above those of any governmental agency. Paraphrasing from Jesper’s comments, if Big Content suspects you of having involvement in copyright infringement activities (downloading from BitTorrent, [...]
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One-way blogs are irritating; E-paper disposability
I’m annoyed by blogs that don’t allow people to post comments! One of the exciting elements of the blogosphere is the two-way nature of it, and the ability to create global discussions anywhere, on any topic, where anyone at all can comment. It’s exciting because it’s democratic and egalitarian, the way the Internet should be! [...]
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Are you leaking search queries?
Recently, AOL leaked 20 million search queries to the world (as covered in a NY Times article). It listed search queries alongside user numbers, which links search terms to individuals. Although no names are listed, it is often not difficult to determine (or at least narrow down) an individual’s identity, given their search history, as [...]
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Mandatory internet filtering in Australia
"History shows that secret censorship systems, whatever their original intent, are invariably corrupted into anti-democratic behavior." ACMA's secret blacklist has been leaked to Wikileaks.org.