Tuesday, March 25, 2008

How Soon is Now?

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.. as The Smiths once said. I was reminded over the weekend about this post by sf writer Charlie Stross. It's a very interesting read o...

3 Strikes And You're Out talk from LSE conference

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Ray Corrigan, one of the finest IT law bloggers on the block, has, incredibly helpfully, while I frolicked for the long Easter weekend, writ...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

Phorm an orderly queue

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It might easily be said that the British just love creating problens with Phorms.. Here is the press release for the FIPR official letter to...

Reminder of March 19th filesharing conference

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From Ian Brown: Hi all - a reminder that this Wednesday afternoon we have a great selection of speakers for our free OII/LSE event on music ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

More March madness , sorry, talks

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Wednesday 5 March brings a joint event with the European Law Forum and ILAWS, both centres at the Law School, University of Southampton. Pro...
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Fun, file sharers and the law

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Pangloss is off speaking again : 2pm-5.30pm 19 March 2008 The Old Theatre, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2 Is home d...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Facebook

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Just to document the press's continuing fascination that people are indeed monitoring Facebook, Bebo etc, and that despite this, other p...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Stokes Law Stokes Trouble for the National ID database

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I love this: "I propose new law, to go alongside Moore's Law and Reed's Law and all of our other useful tools for doing back-of...

EBay to ban negative feedback by sellers..

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.. but not from buyers. This is an interesting one. A small UK study Ashley Theunissen and I did in 2005/6 seemed to reveal that both seller...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Promusicae in the ECJ

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Pangloss has just grabbed a few minutes to consider this rather important new decision from the ECJ . Basically, the European court was aske...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Bloodspell

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Blogzilla remins me that if you're interested in machinima you can now listen to Bloodspell director Hugh Hancock discussing his creati...

Facebook, the holiday romance

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A rather nice comment on why Facebook will be a passing fling for 2008, not the love of our life :)
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

IP Addresses are Personal Data - official

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Brief but important note, via the Asociated Press: the EU Art 29 Working Party group working on privacy, DP and Internet search engines (n...
Monday, January 21, 2008

EBay gets to the point..

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BBC Radio Oxford have kindly informed me of concern by Oxford MEP Nirj Derva about the sale of flick knives on eBay to UK teens. "Nirj ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Second Life bans virtual banks..

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.. reports the Register. That's only banks practicing only in virtuality - LInden dollar lenders and investors - according to El Reg - ...
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Happy festive dispute-season and a litigational new year..

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.. well what DO you wish a bunch of IT lawyers for Xmas?? World peace? An end to spam, malware and windows Vista? But then what would we do ...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

MI5 warn of chinese hacking theat too

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Only a day after the McAfee report warned of the possibility of Chinese hackers attacking states around the world including the UK, MI5 has...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Macafee VCR 2007

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No, not VCR as in video recorder (how lo tech!) but Macafee Virtual Criminology Report 2007. (Pronounced MAC-afee. I've been getting th...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Post Childbenefitgate - Facebook is still bad for your wealth

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While the world continues to fail to comprehend how a government could casually lose the personal data of half its population by putting a D...

Tiffany v eBay

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A tip off from WOIP blog that the long awaited suit by Tiffany's against eBay for trademark infringement - basically, stocking counterfe...