Update: The blog has been taken down, but a Google cache remains.
We just wrote about the extremely troubling ruling in the UK that has left Anton Vickerman, the operator of the TV linking website SurfTheChannel, facing up to ten years in jail. The cha… Continue reading →

actafacts.com, a new pro-ACTA website, made the rounds earlier this month, along with a new report claiming ACTA would create billions of euros in growth and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Glyn Moody was quick to pull the facts apart. FSF called … Continue reading →

Techdirt has always been sceptical about Nathan Myhrvold’s business plan for Intellectual Ventures (IV) — build up a huge portfolio of patents, simply so that it can then license them to those that will, and sue those that won’t. Others, however, hav… Continue reading →

Personal transportation is getting better and more convenient all the time — just check out a bit of the history of the bicycle (or velocipedes). An early velocipede was even nicknamed the “boneshaker” for its uncomfortable ride. Here are just a few … Continue reading →

Via Slashdot, we learn of a lawsuit filed by a “brand protection and anti-counterfeiting” law firm, Gioconda Law Group, against Arthur Wesley Kenzie — a guy who apparently has been registering typo versions of company domain names (typosquatting) and … Continue reading →

Slashdot points us to an article about a new research report, commissioned by a biotech trade group that argues the evidence shows that patents spur innovation, rather than hinder it. However, as some quickly noticed, the report has severe methodologi… Continue reading →

One of the earliest proposals for mass surveillance was the Panopticon:

a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century. The concept of the design is to allow an observ… Continue reading →

Privacy. Everybody talks about it. Grandstanding politicians make plenty of loud noises in the general direction of the internet, disparaging it for turning your perusal of Kim Kardashian-related articles into targeted ads for breast enhancement surger… Continue reading →

While most of the attention on ACTA has been focused on the growing likelihood that Europe will reject the treaty, it appears that something similar is happening down under as well. The Australian Parliament’s “Joint Standing Committee on Treaties” is… Continue reading →