By Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt
Archive for 2012/01/15
Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Legislation, New Business Models, Public PolicyHacker To Release 1.7 Gigabyte Worth Of Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus Source Code
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessCalls himself a member of ”Anonymous Avengers of Indian Independence Frontier’ and says there’s more where this came from
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2715558/hacker-dreigt-met-vrijgeven-volledige-antivirus-code.html
Rupert Murdoch: Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Education / Awareness, Googlehttp://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch/status/158321072943542272
and:
Understand more than all allege! Google great company doing many exciting things. Only one complaint, and it’s important.
Just been to google search for mission impossible. Wow, several sites offering free links. I rest my case.
Sure misunderstand many things, but not plain stealing. Incidentally google blocks many other undesirable things.
http://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch/status/158387719922393088
http://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch/status/158389271395438592
http://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch/status/158587747714596864
Rupert Murdoch: So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy – plain thievery
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyMurdoch’s Twitter tirade comes as the debate over the bills during the past several days has gone in favor of the opposition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57359403-261/who-is-winning-sopa-read-rupe-murdochs-twitter-feed/
For two industries that are so dependent on each other, the relationship between the gadget industry and content creators is an awfully strained one, bordering on domestic violence.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/content-and-cloud-abuse-at-ces.ars
Google caught pilfering Kenyan business directory in sting operation
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Education / Awareness, GoogleObama administration recognizes the need for laws that fight online piracy but is wary of legislation that could lead to censorship, cybersecurity problems, a quashing of innovation, and other issues
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public PolicyE-mail after work hours? That’s overtime, says law
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Education / Awareness, JurisprudenceMillions seeing ‘Stop SOPA’ message on Twitter
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, LegislationDutch KaZaA Lawyer Alberdingk Thijm: What Type Of Country Does The Netherlands Want To Be? Pioneering The Fight Against Piracy, Or Leading The Way In Relation To Innovative New Business Models?
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Public PolicyAlberdingk Thijm believes it is the second option. He also stated that ‘This is the little piece of China, we as The Netherlands want to stay away from’
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/muziek/2715146/brein-maakt-zich-hard-downloadverbod.html
BREIN’s Tim Kuik: I Would Like To Advise Parliament Members To First Go And Read The Verdict, Before They Go And Make A Fuss About It
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Public PolicyTheir views are currently based on the articles of Dutch blog Geenstijl.nl, Kuik argues
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/muziek/2715146/brein-maakt-zich-hard-downloadverbod.html
Dutch Freedom Party Wants Dutch Government To Prevent That More Sites Will Be Blocked In The Future
Posted: 2012/01/15 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Public PolicyAlso expects the Dutch government to:
- acknowledge that site blocking equals censorship and is happening at the expense of the freedom of citizens, even when copyrighted works can be downloaded illegally from these sites;
- invest more money to support a free internet in The Netherlands;
- compensate providers for any damage caused by the site blocking measure;
- prevent a ban on downloading from an illegal source;
- compare the verdict of the Dutch judge in relation to The Pirate Bay with the verdict of the European Court of Justice in relation to the Scarlet/SABAM case. In that case the judge declared that providers do not have to filter out copyright infringements;
Dutch language document:
https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kv-148485.pdf
