Archive for 2012/06/16

Finnish ISP Elisa To Challenge Pirate Bay Blocking Order In The Supreme Court

Posted: 2012/06/16 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Stats / reports

After being ordered to block its subscribers to block from accessing The Pirate Bay, ISP Elisa indicated it would fight the court ruling by taking it to appeal. Yesterday the Court of Appeal delivered an initial blow to the Finnish service provider by upholding the original ruling handed down in 2011. Undeterred, Elisa says it will take its case all the way to the country’s Supreme Court.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/isp-to-challenge-pirate-bay-blocking-order-in-the-supreme-court-120616/

Previously:
http://vrritti.com/?s=pirate+bay+block&submit=Search

How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops

Posted: 2012/06/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Employees who open the store use an iPhone app as a level to tilt all the screens to exactly the same angle. The main reason notebook computers screens are slightly angled is to encourage customers to adjust the screen to their ideal viewing angle—in other words, to touch the computer!

More:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2012/06/14/why-the-new-macbook-pro-is-tilted-70-degrees-in-an-apple-store/

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a motion against a law that aims to strengthen protections of underage children forced into sexual exploitation and prostitution

Posted: 2012/06/16 in Blocking, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Legislation, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reports

One of the reasons being that the Internet Archive does not want to be held liable for the copies of websites it is creating.

Much more:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/eff-files-legal-motion-to-halt-washington-state-online-sex-ad-law/