Their brains simply default to “no copyright = no money,” and thus, to them the argument “but these things cost money to make” makes sense. But that’s only true if they don’t hear what we say, and don’t realize that we are talking about ways to make money — just without relying on copyright to do so
Archive for May, 2011
Incentivizing creativity by people who create things, and not large institutions who prey on them and have for years
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Education / AwarenessIndia Descends Into Extreme Internet Censorship
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyNew Report: IP Laws Are Crippling The EU Economy
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsMicrosoft fingers Russians over Rustock spam botnet
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsBallmer: Piracy costs Microsoft 95% of potential Chinese revenue
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsEU Commission Proposes New IP Rules, With More Weight On Enforcement & Making ISPs Police The Internet
Posted: 2011/05/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public PolicyProving that information posted online is indelible and trivial to mine, an academic researcher has dumped names, email addresses and biographical information made available in 35 million Google Profiles into a massive database that took just one month to assemble
Posted: 2011/05/26 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportsUniversity of Amsterdam Ph.D. student Matthijs R. Koot said he compiled the database as an experiment to see how easy it would be for private detectives, spear phishers and others to mine the vast amount of personal information stored in Google Profiles. The verdict: It wasn’t hard at all. Unlike Facebook policies that strictly forbid the practice, the permissions file for the Google Profiles URL makes no prohibitions against indexing the list.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/25/google_profiles_database_dump/
BT reserves, and makes use of, the right to remotely detect all devices connected to LANs owned by its broadband customers – for their own good, of course.
