A recent proposal recommending the deployment of surveillance software in order to monitor those accessing academic material has drawn fire from digital rights advocates and scientists.
Did you know that there's a killswitch in your [games | books | music | movies | apps]? It's called DRM, and it can block your access to things you bought. You can still take control by choosing DRM-free sources.
A dispetto di alcune ottimistiche previsioni, la proprietà non si è affatto disciolta nel nuovo mondo digitale. Ecco perché è indispensabile ripensare un diritto d’autore … (di Stefano Rodotà)
Reports on a year-long study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, examining the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative educational uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copy
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The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.
Diesen Talk von Cory Doctorow auf dem 28C3 habe ich neulich quasi-live in der Internetglotze gesehen und fand ihn sehr inspirierend. Als Cory heute bloggte, dass es ein Transkript gebe, hab ich mir das gleich in ein gedit-Fensterchen kopiert und in der U-Bahn nach Hause losgelegt.
Die Verhandlungsparteien des umstrittenen Anti-Produktpiraterie-Abkommens ACTA haben nach rund drei Jahren einen konsolidierten Text veröffentlicht, der den Stand der Verhandlungen nach der elften Runde der Gespräche in Tokio wiedergibt. Damit steht der Öffentlichkeit erstmals seit April 2010 eine belastbare Diskussionsgrundlage zur Verfügung.
Eine "Speziallösung" soll es der Europäischen Union ermöglichen, das internationale Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen ACTA abzuschließen, ohne vorher strafrechtliche Sanktionen in der Gemeinschaft zu harmonisieren.