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Ofcom balks at Beeb’s HD DRM dream
More consideration needed, but there ain’t long Ofcom has told the BBC it will not allow the broadcaster to mandate DRM on HD, at least not yet, following overwhelming response to its two-week consultation.…
Continue reading »Uncle Sam’s infosec briefing gives short shrift to copyright
The US government’s annual information security briefing is making the rounds online thanks to a questionable slide or two that indicate that all music downloading is illegal and that government employees need to avoid it at all costs. The slideshow is required for nearly all employees and is meant to drive home the importance of everyone taking basic security measures, but the hyperbolic examples have drawn negative attention to the government’s view of downloading and the Internet. The music-related questions are found in the interactive portion of the presentation, where you are asked to help your buddy Miguel with some downloads on his computer.
Continue reading »RIAA: MediaSentry attacks based on "entirely fictional" laws
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, whose P2P file-sharing retrial begins June 15 in Minneapolis, has a new lawyer named “Kiwi” Camara, and he’s doing all he can to have the main evidence against her tossed out. Camara has attacked MediaSentry , the firm that investigated the case on behalf of the RIAA, then went further to attack the ethics of all the lawyers involved. The RIAA has just dropped a scathing filing of its own on the court, saying that Camara’s motion to dismiss is “premised on an entirely fictional set of facts and law” and that the ethics claim is “merely an unfortunate and unprofessional attack made in a desperate attempt to suppress evidence that Defendant and her counsel know is ruinous to her defense.” Such an accusation “merits no further response.”
Continue reading »French Cybercrime Expert Discusses Loppsi 2 Legislation
It’s been one of the more heated debates surrounding technology in France today. The Loppsi 2 law proposal which would allow the French government to censor websites and allow police to upload key loggers and trojans onto people’s computers without their consent has been a heavily debated piece of legislation and now a cybercrime expert, Guillaume Lovet, has taken some questions and comments from the public and posted his responses. For many, it’s viewed as a country going from bad to worse in terms of law proposals.
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