boingboing.net - 11/4/2009
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* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any ...
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The Distributed Republic —
Every generation must relearn the lesson: don't trust politicians.
A year later our candidate that valued technology, openness, and government transparency, the darling of Silicon Valley, is up to the same old bullshit.
Negociations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement are being held in secret due to… “national security reasons”. — !!??
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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Leak: Government Wants ISPs to Deny Service to Some Users
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... Cory Doctorow posted this frightening bit after looking over a leaked copyright treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): ...
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Copyright for bloggers
likelihoodofconfusion.com 10/15/2009 — A while back ago I prepared a plain-language article, given the title “Copyright Rules of the Road for Bloggers,” for the Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter. I never posted it here, for some reason, but I should have, I think. I do have permission.
Here, read it.
When there’s no-one to talk to after a bad day
annemarietrades.com 10/22/2009 — I chuckled when I saw this cartoon...because I have been that man. Let's face it...some times the market just beats us unmercifully. The psychological blows that coming from a string of losing days, or a particularly bad day for which you were not ...
Binding climate treaty may slip far into 2010
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Britain Signs New Tax Treaty With Switzerland
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