On the same day that friend and colleague Claudio Ruiz has given me an excellent t-shirt and stickers from the Creative Commons enforcement case in Chile (pictured), I have read some F.U.D. from that same country. It’s amazing how some people see CC as a fundamental challenge against proprietary models Read more…
We’ve had some excellent discussion on the first day of the conference, which has been an unofficial start before the summit fully begins tomorrow (in other words, licence geeks get together and throw around ideas). The first session was an extremely useful description from Lucie Gibault and Paul Keller of Read more…
And the summit begins with the legal day, there will be plenty of discussion on all licensing legal topics, so today is lawyer’s day. The great thing about annual conferences is that you get to see again your friends from last year, and in the words of one of the Read more…
I’m off to Croatia to the iSummit ’07. If last year’s Rio Summit is anything to go by, we can expect lively discussion, excellent presentations and the gathering of a truly multinational audience. I hope to blog the event, so expect regular updates, wi-fi permitting of course.
The popular torrent site TorrentSpy has been ordered by a California court to track its visitors as part of a suit initiated by the MPAA (WARNNG: TorrentSpy contains pictures of bouncy females in various stages of clothing). According to TorrentSpy’s site: “We have spent the last year challenging their relentless Read more…
Former student Linda Wilbraham has sent us a mascot llama (pictured). Colleagues at the office have suggested that it needs a name, so I have decided to initiate a competition to name that llama. You can either write a comment with your name and the suggested llama name, or send Read more…
(via Terra Nova) I missed this one during my travels, but I find it such a great story. A Florida law firm has initiated a class-action suit against Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), a gold farming company based in Hong Kong and Delaware. According to the plaintiff, one Mr Antonio Hernández, Read more…
The BBC reports on a new download service started by Peter Gabriel called We7 (wet in l337, geddit?) The service allows free downloads but includes a small advert clip to each songs of up to 10 seconds. This seems like a good effort, but I’m not sure about its prospects. Read more…
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has published music piracy’s “10 inconvenient truths“. Jumping on about three or four bandwagons at the same time must be taxing for the good folks at the IFPI, but I digress. The list is (with some fisking added): “1. Pirate Bay, one Read more…
Nothing demonstrates the futility of DRMs arms like the HD-DVD fiasco. Ed Felten has posted about the latest crack on the latest patch of the failing security system used to protect high definition discs. After the now infamous key number was cracked last month and publicised last month, the solution Read more…