Ireland has been suffering a bit of a copyright nightmare recently. Firstly, Eircom was sued by the music industry, and settled out of court conceding that it would implement some form of “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” policy. As Sheldon from BBT would say Read more
Some people didn’t get the memo. Curiously though, I think I know who the person in the cartoon is!
An interesting development in the latest cybercrime trends has been a marked increase in attacks against online games and virtual worlds, as I have posted previously. One element that I have missed in the discussion about game hacking has been Read more
(via Jonathan Gray) 5th COMMUNIA Workshop: Accessing, Using and Reusing Public Sector Content and Data when: 26-27th March 2009where: New Academic Building, London School of Economics, London UK Across the world there is a growing recognition of the social and Read more
The PirateBay’s copyright infringement trial has gotten under way in Sweden. The press has been promising that it will be the “internet piracy trial of the decade” (I guess Grokster is chopped liver), but as Mathias Klang astutely points out, Read more
And now back to our favourite sport, Microsoft bashing. Slashdot reports some unnerving built-in features in the new MS operating system: “That Photoshop stopped functioning after we messed with one of its nag DLLs was not so much a surprise, Read more
Neil Gaiman has proved once more that he’s One Of The Good Guys. He has posted an interesting comment about the new Amazon Kindle, and its reading-aloud capabilities. Apparently, his publishers think that this infringes their licensing agreement, as there Read more
(via Matthew Bozarth) A WoW insider joke I had to share. Has the Ice Stone melted?
It seems like as soon as this blog’s Technorati ratings go up, we start getting flooded by virtual gold sellers. I don’t know if it’s because of my earlier confession to having purchased WoW gold, or just random attacks. Last Read more
The Bad Science copyright chill has seemingly reached an impasse. The offending clip is still not available on the blog, but it can be found in countless websites as bloggers all across the country have started infringing copyright in a Read more