One sided media - a material so thin, watch you don’t cut yourself on it! I remember reading something about a group of protesters who were lobbying against Al Jazeera opening up a channel in Canada. Well that’s just stupid. Apart from the fact that Al Jazeera is one of the best news networks out [...]
This is a video that is a must watch, regarding the danger of the existing legal framework to the way we and our children are able to use content, to remix it, to say something new. Our parents are passive watchers, members of read only society… whereas we cannot passively watch, it is against our [...]
It’s quiz time.
Who said: “Freedom of speech is like a plague!” and why?
According to the BBC: “UK net firms are resisting government suggestions that they should do more to monitor what customers do online. The industry association for net providers said legal and technical barriers prohibit them from being anything other than a ‘mere conduit’. The declaration comes as the government floats the idea of persistent pirates [...]
Why am I always warning people about DRM? It’s because DRM is one of the great threats to our society of recent times. I can give a list of reasons, but nothing more clearly demonstrates everything that is wrong with DRM than the fiasco that occured with Google Video. I seem to have missed it [...]
Last year, literally on the 1st of January I binned Windows and switched to Linux. After 11 years of using Windows on my PCs I decided enough was enough! What could spark this drastic change in ideology you might wonder? Well as the three or so of you who read my blog should know - [...]
ISPs are set on a course to become content police, warns Internet law professor Michael Geist. He told the BBC News website: “In recent months, a new strategy has begun to emerge. With the industry gradually admitting that locking down content does not work, it has now dangerously shifted toward locking down the Internet. The [...]
Freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Bear in mind that implementation remains lacking in many countries (not pointing any elbows). I start off with this paragraph because it seems [...]
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