Issue 1 2009 Editorial After Marper: Two Readings, Two Responses Roger Brownsword , pp.1-3| HTML | Reviewed Articles Virtual Worlds As A New Game Theoretic Model For International Law: The Case Of Bilateral Investment Treaties Peter S Jenkins, pp.4-32| HTML | New Technology and Researchers’ Access to Court and Tribunal Read more…
What better way to kick-start the internet after Easter break than a good old cyber-censorship row? All the ingredients are there: giant e-commerce company with large share of the market, gays, religion, porn, erotica, geeks, twitter… mix and watch the blogosphere and the twitterverse go “Kablooey!” During the weekend I Read more…
GikII Comes to Amsterdam! 17-18 September 2009 Institute for Information Law (IViR) University of Amsterdam GikII 4th Edition, a two day workshop on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture, will be held on September 17-18th, 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The chairs of the event are Joris van Read more…
His page would look like this: Some absolute gold in there. “Bill Gates just bought Azerbaijan”. The Wall-to-Wall between Bill and Steve. And I love the gift from Linux on the bottom-left corner.
Phorm (also known as Webwise) has declared that it is finally set to launch its service in the UK with BT’s ISP service. Phorm is a service that allocates web users a unique number, it then monitors websites that the user has visited and looks for recurring keywords related to Read more…
I have read with interest Henry Porter’s scathing indictment of Google in yesterday’s Observer, an article generating some heated discussion online. While I often enjoy his writings, I have to say that on this occasion he has written a thoroughly misinformed article that seems to conflate concepts and technologies. I Read more…
The unveiling of Google StreetView UK is being met with that uniquely British mixture of outrage, amusement and derision that I can never quite get right (much like the intricacies of the English language I suspect, but I digress). On Wednesday the village of Broughton in Buckinghamshire blocked the StreetView Read more…
My dislike of Twitter is well documented. I had checked Twitter before I opened an account in July 2008, and I must admit that I did not like it at all. Perhaps it was the fact that I could not find any interesting people to follow, or that those feeds Read more…