Registration is now closed, but here is the programme for this year’s Gikii. I’m really looking forward to it: 17 September 09:15-09:30 Opening 09:30-10:45 First morning session (3): Doomsday Christopher Lever, Fortun@e 500: A Consideration of the Contract Law Consequences of Cache Poisoning Clive Feather, Resilience of the PGP “web Read more
There were many reasons to believe that the UK would not be seeing any three-strikes legislation against file-sharing. First, the European Union had declared that it was a bad idea. Second, HADOPI had been declared unconstitutional in France. But most importantly, the Digital Britain report had considered that the proposal Read more
The new issue of SCRIPTed is now live. In this issue: Editorial News from the SCRIPTed Offices Shawn H. E. Harmon, pp.194-196 | HTML | DOC | PDF | National and Global Dimensions of Public Rights in Copyright Graham Greenleaf and David Vaile, pp.197-200 | HTML | DOC | PDF Read more
(Thanks to Lilian for inspiring the title). August 5 2009 could very well come to be known as the Day of the Zombie. Earlier in the day, the press reported that Twitter had been knocked offline by a large distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Besides the obvious comments about Read more
Although most of the topics dealt with in this blog tend to be political in nature (let’s face it, law is usually a highly political topic in itself), I try to stay away from some specifically political issues, mostly because I think that there are people making more informed commentary Read more