Copyright
Alternative DVD anti-piracy ad
(via Ashley Theunissen) Are you bored of that annoying anti-piracy ad at the start of your DVD? You know, the one you cannot fast-forward?Check out this alternative editing.
Networks
BitTorrent and traffic shaping
One of the problems of moving house is getting new providers for all kinds of services. Choosing a new broadband provider is a worry, particularly if you were happy with your old ISP. Telewest (now Virgin Media) were pretty good in general, even despite the fact that they were too Read more…
Open source
Open source Tories
(Via David Berry) The Conservative Party has turned open source, according to their website: “Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has promised that an incoming Conservative government would create a level playing field for open source software in the UK, in a move which could save taxpayers more than £600 million a Read more…
Games
MMORPG bubble bursting
One of the most traumatic events for the fledgling field of IT Law was the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001, when the artificially inflated electronic commerce market suffered a re-adjustment and a crash to weed out all of the pretenders and irrelevant market dwellers, producing some of the Read more…
Privacy
Trouble with jurisdiction
While listening to the excellent podcast Digital Planet from the BBC, I heard a horror story about the problems of regulating cyberspace. While just a couple of days ago I sounded rather optimistic about the prospects of regulating online environments, this story lays bare some of the real problems of Read more…
Open content
Open source patenting
The peer-to-patent project is almost ready to go live, reports the Washington Post. For those unfamiliar with this initiative, the peer-to-patent system was proposed by New York Law School Professor Beth Simone Noveck in this paper. If we agree that the American patent system is broken, and reading some of Read more…
Creative Commons
Enforcing Creative Commons (Part Deux)
I mentioned some time ago that my blog was being copied and used in a splog. As the content was used to farm Google Adwords, I felt that this was done in breach of the terms of the Creative Commons licence I use. I started the process of sending a Read more…
Games
Virtual spam
I’ve received one piece of blog comment spam, and as a matter of policy I deleted it. However, I have removed the links and I have felt compelled to keep it for posterity: “Welcome to our website for you World of Warcraft Gold,Wow Gold,Cheap World of Warcraft Gold,cheap wow gold,buy Read more…
Feeling silly
Conservapedia
So, you are a member of the religious right in the United States. You go online to find information to defeat those heathen atheists and their plot to subvert the youth by teaching the evils of Evolutionary theory. But what do you find? Wikipedia is biased against Creationism and the Read more…
New technologies
The Joyce Hatto scandal: iTunes and plagiarism
The world of classical music has been shaken by the Joyce Hatto scandal. For those unaware of the affair, Joyce Hatto was a pianist whose career was cut short in the 1970’s due to cancer. However, in 1989 she started recording again and producing CDs with her husband’s independent record Read more…