The BBC report that the Pirate Bay trial verdict is in and the Bay has lost. 1 year jail time and 30m Kroner (£2.4m) in damages. The appeal should be interesting (Tip o’the hat to Simon Grigg)
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Pirate Bay founders found guilty
17-Apr-09On Copyright (pt 3)
16-Apr-09You may remember I mentioned the Copyright thread on Public Address System (PAS to its habitués). It got to 37 pages which we thought was quite a lot. There’s another one, starting from a review of Lawrence Lessig’s lecture in Auckland last year by Matthew Poole, which is now at 81 pages and 1600+ postings, [...]
ACTA Draft on Wikileaks!
13-Apr-09BREAKING NEWS: Michael has reported a new Wikileaks document which purports to be an ACTA draft. It’s a 5.2MB download and appears to be photographs of a document dated 7 July 2008. It’s highly resistant to OCR but Wikileaks is hosting a page where transcriptions are being lodged I think it’s awfully interesting to note [...]
The ACTA non-event
13-Apr-09Someone emailed me and asked why I haven’t blogged anything about the ACTA “release of documents” last week. Basically, because it held no revelation, was not a release of information other than the spin agreed by the countries involved and because I’m currently working on something a lot closer to home, which I’ll post about [...]
Where’s the beef?
02-Apr-09Michael Geist, Canadian law professor and copyright activist, has published an ACTA timeline from a Canadian perspective. He kindly notes my post with regard to the pre-negotiation history, and goes into a fair bit of detail from October 2007 onward, and finishing with “To be continued…”. Michael organised the Facebook protest against C-61 – the [...]