Blogging
TechnoLlama has moved!
If you are here, you may have noticed that the blog has moved from Blogger. While I spent a long time in Blogspot, and had a great time there, I decided that it was time to move on and host Read more
P2P
The end of piracy?
(via ORG-discuss list) Pirates, pirates, pirates. it’s all there is in the news lately. Pirates in Somalia, pirates in Sweden, pirates online, pirates in culture. We have pirates jumping out of our breakfast cereals it seems. Last week saw the Read more
Games
User-Generated Gaming
Old-time favourite game City of Heroes has made a giant innovative leap by being the first massively multiplayer online game to implement user-generated gaming. While other games and virtual worlds offer user-generated content, what makes City of Heroes unique is Read more
Cases
Pirate Bay 4 to serve criminal sentence
Edited February 2012: This old entry is getting a lot of hits from Google, so I have decided to update it. There was an appeal to the sentence described below on October 2010, which reduced the sentences. On January 2012, Read more
Announcements
SCRIPTed April 2009
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 Read more
Censorphip
Amazonfail: cyber-censorship, cyber-hype, or YHBT?
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 Read more
Announcements
GikII Call for Papers
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, Read more
Feeling silly
If Bill Gates was on Facebook…
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.
Networks
Phorm launch in the horizon
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 Read more
New technologies
Is Google an amoral monopoly?
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 Read more