EFF – New US Copyright Enforcement Proposal and ACTA Could be a Catastrophe
There is a new proposal that could further restrict copyright laws in the United States. With the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on the minds of many people around the world, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling the new copyright proposals potentially catastrophic.
Copyright and surveillance laws have been the subject of much discussion in [...]
Swedish MP – FRA Suspected of Already Beginning Surveillance Program
Following a seemingly global trend towards total surveillance, according to Swedish MP Max Andersson, the FRA is suspected of starting up their surveillance program without parliamentary approval. The news comes during a time when privacy is increasingly becoming a hot topic among the Swedish.
AT&T didn’t wait for regulatory approval, the German ISP Deutsche Telekom [...]
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond – Part 3 of 3
In part 1 of this three part interview, ZeroPaid and Russell McOrmond discussed a number of issues including privacy, network neutrality and Michael Geist. In Part 2, topics such as copyright law, YouTube and open source. This final portion of the interview covers things such as DRM, politics, the CRIA and WIPO
Part 1 [...]
John Edwards is Using Bittorrent
John Edwards, one of the democratic presidential candidates in 2004 is using bittorrent to spread his campaign stuff. Campaigns are pretty expensive, so sharing bandwidth is a good idea.
Edwards is likely to run for President again in 2008, so if you live in the USA, and you want a president that supports bittorrent, vote for [...]
Why the pirate movement needs to organize
On May 1, 2004, the Swedish Justice Department released a report by the name of Digitala klyftor – förr, nu och i framtiden (Digital rifts – past, present and future). It investigated the rifts in society between those that are attuned to and able to benifit from the new technology and those that can not, [...]
Pirate Party Here I come
The Pirate Bay affair has apparently cast a new and rare light on the notion of participation in this country’s politics. Being that the brave and ingenious minds behind PirateBay.org had made the unusual step of actually forming their own political party says a great deal about their character. It would also seem [...]
Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality
A hotly contested Democratic bid to enshrine extensive Net neutrality regulations in the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By a 34-22 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic-backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Google.
