Open source
GPL v3 v3
(via House of Commons and Groklaw) The third draft of the GPL version 3 is now available for comment. I haven’t had much time to go through it in detail, so I will be making comments later, mostly building on Read more
Regulation
Criminality of death threats online
Everyone is talking about Kathy Sierra’s blog death threats. I don’t feel like I can comment a lot as I have never before read her blog or heard about her before I read the news coverage, but this seems to Read more
Meme
Defining YouTube culture in one OKGo
Copyfight has a good post about the OKGo phenomenon. OK Go, for those who don’t know, is a band from Chicago that could be largely classed as alternative, but it may well be part of the new geek rock. What Read more
P2P
Pirates complain about P2P
This is an excellent read from TorrentFreak. They interview a real pirate, one of those people who makes physical copies of copyright content and sells it in marketplaces, car-boots or pubs. Tony, a physical pirate, complains that P2P has stolen Read more
P2P
P2P in the news
This is yet another well-informed technology article from The Guardian on P2P, IP and downloads. I often complain about journalistic inaccuracies, but praise where it’s due, sometimes they get it right.
Games
Virtual communities and IP
The Beeb runs a story on a new report by research consultants Screen Digest on the Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) market. The big headline in the report is that the MMOG market has now passed the $1 billion USD Read more
Hacking
The dangerous and wild Internet
Security firm Symantec has released it’s 11th Internet Security Threat Report, and if accurate (no reason to doubt that it is), it makes for some very grim reading indeed. I have taken some key findings from the summary which warrant Read more
Copyright
Chronicle of a suit foretold
There have been plenty of reports and commentary on Viacom v YouTube and Google, the mother of all copyright infringement suits at a whooping $1 billion USD. I didn’t want to comment on it until I got the chance to Read more
SCRIPT-ed
SCRIPT-ed books for review
The following books are available for review for SCRIPTed. As usual, they’re allocated on a first-come, first-served basis: The Copy/South Research Group, The Copy/South Dossier – Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South, April Read more