As we build greater ability to access information, day by day, so too do we find ourselves in the precarious position of too many people having access to too much misinformation. Worse still, it is often the people who have the loudest voices that are broadcasting and passing on the greatest amount of misinformation. The [...]
There is movement underfoot in the UK to halt the Governments proposed ‘three strikes and your out’, legislation. A few months ago I blogged about the file sharers increasingly successful disappearance act. The Copyright Industry is Removing the Barriers Against Terrorism. In a story entitled MI5 comes out against cutting off internet pirates [...]
The Internet is lauded by many, hated by a few, but without doubt has changed the lives of everyone connected to it. It is therefore reasonable that the internet and it’s underlying technologies occasionally become the target of geek humour. The internet is abuzz today about the pigeon that could. South African Internet users [...]
The Berne Convention (of September 9, 1886) was formed for the purpose of protecting intellectual property. It has been quoted by most American Politicians for the last 10 years as the reason why America needs to get tough with the P2P community. Its interesting, that the United States only became a signatory to [...]
The Swedish High Court has sentenced four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), to jail. On Twitter today Peter Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.” We got the news last night that we lost. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before [...]
Today’s article is only for open minded individuals. If you consider that all conspiracy theories are garbage and are not open to the what, why, how and when, then please go and join a monastery and put in a request to come back in the next life as an ostrich. The content industry has [...]
Cryptography has been with us ever since secrets needed to be shared with more than one person – remotely. What is amazing nowadays is that incredibly complex encryption/decryption is used for trading entertainment. I find this extraordinary. What was military strength coding is now used quite generally, and if Pirate Bay has its way, will [...]
Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It is a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing Napster. BMG, one of the [...]
Even as Steven Jobs is working to remove the DRM from iTunes sold content, Apple itself is joining the ranks of the copyright industry by defending the iPhone from hackers “jailbreaking” their phones.. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans people from defeating technical protections for copyrighted materials (such as DRM on iTunes songs and [...]
For the purposes of this article I consider “Media” to include all forms of recorded information and/or entertainment that was historically based in the analogue world (books, newspapers, TV, recorded music, movies, etc). Over the last few months there has been an evolving conflict emerging in the book industry in Australia. The retailers would like [...]