When I was a little boy, growing up, my mother attempted to instill into me some manners. For example, on the subject of visiting I learnt never to arrive somewhere [a private house] without a gift for the matriarch of the household. Regular readers would be aware that I enjoy growing Bonsai or [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
In 1994, I wanted to place an entry in the Phone Book to give me an advantage over my “soon to be competition”. I tried to register “Internet Australia Pty. Ltd.” as a company name. Quite rightly, ASIC refused my attempt at registering a “generic” name. I succeeded in my efforts by registering [...]
According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.” In Fiscal [...]
When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]
Most people in Australia don’t understand the iiNet trial. They think that either iiNet failed to follow it’s obligations under the copyright legislation or that iiNet were setup by DTECNET to take the fall that would create precedent in law that will require all ISP’s to dob in their customers, irregardless of actual proof. [...]
The RIAA is about to offload it’s position of most globally hated industry body onto the mantle of our elected representatives. Which country? Well they’re starting with the ACTA participants. And they’re doing a damn fine job. Against all the evidence, they have managed to convince the US Congress who in [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
Sometimes you can read a paragraph and skip right over important words. It is not till later that something in the brain clicks and says “Whoa”! The other day I quoted a paragraph from wikileaks: In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]