India Pressured to Sign and Ratify WIPO
There is generally little coverage over what is going on in India with regards to digital rights in North American news outlets. That may change thanks to pressure exerted onto the country from the world Intellectual Property Organization.
India is said to have the second fastest growing emerging economies in the world. With such [...]
BitTorrent Democratic TV App Miro Upgrades to Version 1.2
A major update to the Miro software has occurred this evening. The open sourced democratic TV software has upgraded to 1.2 which features many upgrades and bug fixes.
“We’ve just released a major update to Miro, version 1.2″ The announcement says, “This version adds lots of tweaks and bug fixes that make Miro smoother and [...]
Lawmaker Wants to Ban Anonymous Online Postings
Tim Couch, a Republican representative in the Kentucky Legislature filed a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to post online anonymously.
The bill (.doc) says that everyone who signs up with an “interactive service” must demand users full name, address and valid electronic mail address.
The bill also states that any “interactive service provider” that [...]
Report – Some Video iPods Incompatible With iTunes Video Rentals
A report on Wired says that some iPods are not compatible with the iTunes video rental store. Not good news for fifth generation iPod owners planning on using the service.
“We just have to make [piracy] as difficult and as tedious as possible,” Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America said during an interview on [...]
Studies – Music Sales: Canada Up, USA Down
Earlier this week, ZeroPaid reported that a Nielson Soundscan report suggests that physical music sales were down 21% in the Christmas of 2007.
Just north of the forty ninth parallel, Canada has much more relaxed copyright laws. If the copyright laws in the US are strict and music sales are down, would that [...]
New bill to give bloggers same shield law protection as journalists
The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as journalists. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines “journalism” to focus more [...]
Swedish Appeal(s) court clears man of file sharing
A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with making the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora available for download from the internet.
The [...]
Utah Attorney General Files 1st P2P Child Porn Case (press release)
A West Valley City man is the first person in Utah to be charged with using a file sharing network to distribute child pornography. The Utah Attorney General’s Office charged 54-year-old Larry Lyle Buhler with 5 second-degree felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
“Wherever they go, whatever technology they use, we will continue to [...]
Court rules against man in porn-at-work case
A Montana man who used his work computer to access child pornography does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy that would bar a search of the machine, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Jeffrey Ziegler had argued that his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures should prevent the government from using [...]
Wireless Piggybacking Lands Man In Trouble
Brewed Awakenings, with its pithy name, artful drinks and wireless Internet service, has found itself unexpectedly percolating on the forefront of high-tech law.
“He doesn’t buy anything,” Manager Emily Pranger says about the man she ended up calling 911 about. “It’s not right for him to come and use it.”
Pranger says 20-year-old Alexander Eric Smith of [...]
