As cloud computing becomes more pervasive and mainstream, it is likely an increasing quantity of our information will exist only online, on servers managed by someone else. That has its downsides. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a swine of an act. In essence, a copyright owner can issue a takedown notice to a [...]
A few weeks ago, a flurry of articles announced the death of DRM-protected music and questioned if watermarks would take their place. Wired ran as good an article as any – DRM Is Dead, But Watermarks Rise From Its Ashes. The response has been mixed, with negative views prevailing. A good balanced argument was written [...]
There is a bit of a furore going on over a piece of code being leaked to the web that enables you to crack HD-DVDs. However, one of the blog posts/news articles includes a snippet of information that I am more interested in, because it highlights a big flaw in the strategy for moving your [...]
I want to throw a ping pong ball at the television whenever one of those hideous adverts comes on the screen. They go along the lines: Have you recently slipped on a banana skin carelessly left on the floor at work and stubbed your toe against an open door that should have been closed… Were [...]
Article in the New Scientist (subscription required to access full article). Subtitle says it all: “Copyright laws are designed to encourage creative endeavour. But on the web, they are being used to silence and intimidate.” The article highlights how section 512 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) enables copyright owners to send ‘takedown notices’ [...]
