Feeling silly
M@rking…
It’s that time of year again. Following this method could help alleviate the pain.
Hacking
Top 10 passwords
Everyone is going to be blogging this in the next few days, so I might as well share it. This is the list of Top 10 passwords according to PC Magazine: 1. password2. 1234563. qwerty4. abc1235. letmein6. monkey7. myspace18. password19. Read more
e-commerce
Electronic Money Strikes Back
I have been a long-time critic of electronic money. We’ve been hearing about how we’ll all be ditching our banknotes and coins within “the next two years” since 1998. Similarly, we’ve had a regulatory response to the subject which has Read more
Cases
Another Spanish bar loses on copyleft licences
(via Erick Iriarte) Javier de la Cueva has posted a report on yet another defeat for copyleft against the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) in Spain, this time in Alicante. The ruling from 21 March 2007 decides on Read more
Copyright
AACS vows to fight bloggers over number
(via David Berry) The BBC reports that AACS has vowed to fight against bloggers, aggregators, and all sort of users who have posted the now infamous key online. I must admit that my original scepticism has dissipated, and I cannot Read more
P2P
University students’ identities revealed to RIAA
(via George Sakellariadis) The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be revealing the identity of 53 of its students to the RIAA after the educational institution lost a case against the music industry. The students are file-sharers, and it means that they Read more
Regulation
A digital bully den?
I’ve read an interesting article in The Independent by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and while I don’t agree with it, I’ve been noticing an increase in cyber-scepticism and technophobic criticism against all things online. While some of the protestations can be classed Read more
DRM
HD-DVD brought down by Web 2.0
Back in January I had reported on the hacking of HD-DVD protection by improper key management. AACS, makers of the DRM protecting the new format, vowed to try to shut down BackupHDDDVD, which is instrumental to some part of the Read more
Cases
Microsoft wins patent case in US Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court has ruled on Microsoft v AT&T, a dispute over patent infringement abroad. Patent law is pre-eminently national, so it does not apply over items manufactured and sold in other countries. American patent law has only Read more
Feeling silly
Not an IP Day post
Because I have the strong psychological urge to be different (or at least different-ish), I’m trying to make today the “Non-IP Day”, seeing as yesterday was “World Intellectual Property Day“. We need a snazzy name though.