Since June 21st 2010, the Dutch Ministries of Economic Affairs, Finance, Justice and Development have received 60 responses to the negotiating text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Of these responses, 38 are public, including those of TNO ICT, Philips, Bits of Freedom, the Dutch Association of Producers and Importers of Picture and Sound carriers (NVPI), KPN and the Dutch Association of Film Distributors (NVF). Below is a brief summary of their submissions and the reaction of the Dutch Minster of Economic Affairs.
Archive for 2010/08/27
Dutch comments on ACTA internet consultation
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyIf I’m not pirating apps, and you aren’t, and no one knows anyone who is, where is the piracy coming from?
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reportsIn the case of my app, I thought it would be interesting to try and identify which parts of the world were spawning the most pirates.
Much more: http://keyeslabs.com/joomla/projects/auto-app-licensing/152-a-global-piracy-heat-map
More than 19 Million UK Households Now Have Internet Access in 2010
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Stats / reportsUK Law Firm Ralli Seeks Group Action for Harassment Against ACS Law
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Litigationsuit against their controversial illegal broadband ISP file sharing threat letters
Auditors question U.S. wireless competition
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, Stats / reportsAmerican wireless customers are paying less for cell phone service than they did a decade ago, but they have fewer choices of carriers, a report from the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.
If Io sounds familiar, that’s because they were also one of the first to sue a video site for infringement, in this case Veoh, in a lawsuit that Io lost
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Litigationhttp://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100825/17125610777.shtml
Previously:
Perfect 10 Loses Again, As Court Says DMCA Notices Need To Be Properly Filed
Deceptive CEOs and CFOs use more references to general knowledge, fewer non-extreme positive emotions words, fewer references to shareholders value and value creation
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionExecs who use above-average amounts of expletives are also more likely to be crooked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/26/ceo_lie_detector/
and
https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/library/RP2060%20&%2083.pdf
Ofcom will encourage ISPs to be transparent about traffic management, but won’t ask them to detail the information in a standard format
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Net Neutrality, Public Policy“Ofcom stressed that they are open-minded about how they achieve consumer transparency, eg self-, co-, or proper regulation but they also pointed to Commissioner Kroes’ statement that ‘transparency is non-negotiable”
Interestingly, Google will be entirely absent from a day-long net neutrality seminar hosted by the Broadband Stakeholder Group next week. Attendees include Ofcom and EU reps, CDNs and network vendors, ITV and Canvas, and all the biggest ISPs. It’ll be left to Skype to argue the case for a Free Lunch.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/27/uk_net_neutrality_latest/
Who writes pro-cable Internet legislation? Cable does
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyWho wrote that cable-backed North Carolina bill targeting municipal broadband? Cable did. And the legislator who sponsored it is proud of his role as a water carrier. Why, he’s better than Gunga Din!
Disney, Warner Bros. sue to stop advertising on pirate websites
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Litigation, Online advertisingThe two studios are suing Triton Media, alleged to have provided advertising consulting and referrals for nine websites identified as “one-stop-shops” for infringing works.
http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/08/disney-warner-advertising-piracy-lawsuit.html
Dutch Green Left party has concerns about the ACTA Treaty
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyDutch political party Green Left (Groen Links) is completely fed up with the ACTA Treaty’s haziness, reports Webwereld. One of Webwereld’s readers tipped off Mariko Peters (GL) about ACTA’s continuing secret negotiations as well as contradictions in communications about possible changes in Dutch law as a result of the Treaty. Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs replied.
http://www.futureofcopyright.com/index.php?page=news&id=1249
Facebook tries to limit use of ‘Book’ by others
Posted: 2010/08/27 in Education / Awareness, LitigationWhile most would never confuse Teachbook as as a subsidiary or affiliate of Facebook, the suit alleges that Teachbook is attempting to profit by the Facebook name.
See also: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/08/teachbooksuit.pdf
