For some time now English law firm ACS:Law has been in the middle of controversy for its use of dubious tactics against copyright infringers. ACS:Law’s cause célèbre is that they became famous when they teamed-up with porn producers and then Read more
BLACA SYMPOSIUM The Decoder Cases: Copyright in Sport Broadcasts under assault? 1st October 2010 University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL Lecture Theatre 270, Old College 6.15 pm Chair: Gillian Davies Media Law and Conditional Access: Rachael Read more
Back in July we reported about a new strategy by American copyright enforcement authorities against websites considered to be pirating. “Operation In Our Sites” (notice the clever pun, or play of words) revoked the domain name registration of several sites Read more
Interesting start of the afternoon. Twitter has been hit by an XSS exploit which makes use of Javascript mouseover function in a browser, so that every time people browsed over a tweet, it opened a screen, sent an RT which Read more
One of the most debated aspects during the drafting discussion of the Digital Economy Act was the question of who is going to foot the bill for all of the detection and notification of online infringement. This is one of Read more
A quick note about ACTA. There is a new leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. There is an excellent analysis of the leaked text at Knowledge Ecology International (here and here). The text is finally being trimmed down, but Read more
As one of the millions of people who reuses passwords, I found this xkcd utterly brilliant: I wonder if it would be possible to program a web search that looks for the frequency of use of the words ‘xkcd’ and Read more
I must admit that I am yet to read The Shallows by Nicolas Carr, this summer’s book to hate, but I have read some interesting reviews, particularly Scott Rosenberg’s. However, I notice that the book has been making the rounds Read more
I have recently become the proud owner of a wireless Kindle 3G eBook reader. I have always been comfortable reading content on a screen, and getting an electronic reader makes sense. The ebook market is exploding, and with the popularisation Read more
So, I’ve finished my book (tentatively named ‘Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation: Scale-Free Law’). Here is the Wordle for the entire book: Here is Chapter 1. I think it is clear that the book is about networks, don’t you think? Read more