SO, I was getting ready on the weekend to tear apart Rob Beschiza’s comments on the prior posts under a great title -”The Fisking of Rob Beschiza!” when I mentioned it to a friend of mine who looked oddly at me and said simply “And that will get you what, exactly?” And he’s right. There’s [...]
So, what’s hauled me back to the keyboard? ACTA – the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – you may remember that I’ve blogged on this before. Well, it’s just entered its next round, in Korea, that well-known home of freedom and civil liberties (and the first country in the world to pass a 3 strikes law and implement it). Some of the latest draft has been leaked (again) and the Internet is noticing.
You 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, [...]
(Hat-tip to harrismint for this one) On Torrentfreak there is a report of an EU vote (481 in favour, 25 against and 21 abstentions) to accept a report about fundamental freedoms on the Internet. For the third time in a year the European Parliament has spoken out against tougher anti-piracy legislation that would allow alleged [...]
There is a video going around on the Intarwebz. I am not going to link directly to it but you can find it in the blog I link to in this post. It’s a report from Russia Today about ACTA. It has a clip of Richard Stallman sounding off, and a few others, and intimates [...]
Over on PublicAddress, there’s a long running debate on copyright (actually, crossing over multiple threads and other discussions). It’s got a little heated at times but at the moment, it’s not too bad. Last night, one of the participants, Rob Stowell asked me a question that I had to think about, and this morning I [...]
[Warning - this one is quite long with lots of juicy links] Mauricio Frietas has posted a Q&A session with Campbell Smith, the CEO of RIANZ that happened in one of the Forums. It’s an interesting read but Smith is still convinced that his cause is just and, hey, RIANZ are not the RIAA so [...]
There’s a wee snippet in the Briefings to Incoming Ministers regarding ACTA. Yes, I do read these things. Not for fun, you understand, but they’re always a good way to get an overview of what government agencies are working on and how they are constructed, especially when there’s a change of Government. The Beehive site [...]
We return you to your regular programme, after a summer hiatus that I wasn’t intending, actually. And what better way to get into 2009 than with some juicy leaked stuff! James Love, of Knowledge Ecology International, has just blogged some details from apparently leaked documents re ACTA http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta/ It seems he has the outline and [...]
Just spotted in my RSS feed from the Government portal – newzealand.govt.nz, in case you didn’t know – is a post from MED about the latest round of ACTA negotiations ACTA Negotiations: Report on Round Three, 8-9 October 2008, Tokyo Of course, it says bugger all of substance, as expected after the last round report, [...]