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Category: Law

  • Virgin Media blocks access to Pirate Bay

    Reading the Guardian’s report that Virgin Media started blocking access to Pirate Bay from yesterday in accordance with a court order in the UK requiring that action, I checked access (I’m a Virgin Media customer): it is indeed blocked. More…

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  • Content-scraping is theft, pure and simple

    Jim Connolly posted a link on his Google+ page to “No Such Thing As A Good Scraper” by AJ Kohn, who writes a pretty good analysis and summary of what content scrapers often do with your written content. You’re not…

  • Twitter can’t be gagged, even in France

    The first round in the French presidential election ended yesterday with the result that Socialist Party challenger François Hollande narrowly edged in front of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy by the slim margin of just over 1 percent of the vote.…

  • Share on Pinterest if you have the right

    One online property that’s been getting huge attention over the past few weeks is Pinterest, the join-by-invitation content-sharing and social networking service. Not only huge attention but also huge take-up by its users – TechCrunch reported earlier this month with…

  • Pick up the pitchforks

    Powerful stuff from +Clay Shirky who describes the US entertainment and media industry thus in his call to ‘pick up the pitchforks’ re SOPA and PIPA: “[…] This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids…