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“You would put all management out of a job!”
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Facebook and Google anounce that they are joining the Data Portability Workgroup, a body advocating open standards allowing users of social web sites to easily move their data from one site to another. (This is not long after Facebook suspended Robert Sco
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The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of Data Portability – where users can take their data from the we
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One unique feature of UK copyright law is that ripping songs from a CD isn’t allowed.That could change soon as Lord Triesman, Minister for Intellectual Property, today announced a consultation on IP reform that could make format shifting a legal right.
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Jaiku’s external feed servers, which are used by third-party Jaiku client applications, have been down frequently during the past week, often returning 504 gateway errors or nothing at all.
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Network Neutrality? A study conducted last year by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and independently verified by the Associated Press revealed that Comcast interferes with BitTorrent and Gnutella sessions by sending TCP “reset” packets to users.
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The latest issue of the journal “Index on Censorship†is dedicated to the topic of Internet censorship and features an article, “Shifting Bordersâ€, by Ross Anderson and me. In it, we argue that it is wrong to claim that the Internet is free from b
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Review
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PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbz
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mel on christmas and advertising…
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mel on wax firelighters
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The recording solution I have been looking for ?
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Hurrah for the Common Market?
“Apple will reconsider its continuing relationship in the UK with any record label that does not lower its wholesale prices in the UK to the pan-European level within six months.”
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Verdi commented, “He aspires to originality but succeeds only at being strange.”
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Not GPS. Useful. Scary.
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Cute. Spread-spectrum port numbers.
shimmer works by cryptographically changing a set of 16 ports (one of which forwards to the real service, and 15 others that lead to a trap to blacklist attackers). The 16 ports change every minute frustrating an atta
Categories: uncategorised.
By alecm
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2008/01/10 at 06:28
Re: UK wants to make CD rips legal (at last):
You haven’t included the other shoe that dropped with this proposal; although they propose to make personal copying legal, it will be illegal (as in a criminal offence) to circumvent any copy protection measures on the CDs in question to exercise that right. Consequently, we’ll be in the same position as the US with the DMCA – you have a right to fair use, but you can’t exercise it, because the stuff you want to fairly use is copy-protected, and if you get around that you go to jail. The only winners here aren’t consumers, they’re the media companies.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/copyright_reform/