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Punishment without the crime

In print on 20 November 2009

Nobody was shocked when the Secretary of State for Business announced three strikes. There could be a lot more than that by the end of the winter. As it turned out, though, he wasn’t talking about industrial action: Lord Mandelson was resurrecting the proposal to cut off your access to the Internet if you’re accused of infringing copyright. Like privatising the Royal Mail, he probably doesn’t see why this is controversial. continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk

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‘I am not an investigative journalist,’ says former Mirror editor Roy Greenslade, ‘and I don’t have much time for people like John Pilger and Duncan Campbell.’ continue

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Incomprehensible regulations mindlessly enforced: a reliable staple of modern consumer news, represented most recently by TV Licensing’s push to get business owners signed up. continue

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Microsoft has weighed in to the Google Books debate, filing a brief in its capacity as a publisher (of books, not software) in the class action suit that seeks to give Google the right to digitise every book in America. It wants the case thrown out, and it’s right. continue

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First it was computers, then mobile phones. Now hackers have found a way to compromise keyboards. What’s going to be the next cyber-security threat? Biscuits? continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk

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So Stephen Fry has admitted to downloading the series finale of House over BitTorrent because it was quicker than finding a legal copy. Lord Stephen of Twitter made his confession during July’s iTunes Festival, where he criticised the entertainment business for suing file sharers, saying that ‘making an example of ordinary people is the stupidest thing the record industry can do’. The industry appears to agree, because it’s stopped doing it, just as the British government – trying to appease the industry’s previous stance – proposes formalising the process. The currently favoured alternative, threatening to cut off users’ connections if they’re deemed to be sharing files illegally, has just been ruled unconstitutional in France, the country most gung-ho about implementing it. It’s all getting harder to follow than an episode of House. continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk

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When free attacks

Blogged on 21 July 2009

Chris Anderson wondered if Obama’s putative pinko anti-trust policy (ie having an anti-trust policy) might interfere with Google’s cross-subsidisation of free services from ad revenues. continue

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Craig posted at Cult of Mac about Tim Langdell’s continuing attempts to sue anyone who uses the word ‘Edge’ (which, last we heard, was an English word) in a videogame context and now, apparently, to prevent anyone making any kind of game involving a sphere. In passing, Craig mentioned the characteristic use of an axonometric projection in marble-rolling titles, ‘commonly referred to as “isometric” continue

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So Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who appealed after being told to pay $220,000 for illegally sharing a couple of dozen music tracks via P2P, now faces an increased award of $1.92 million. continue

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I’m incredible

Off topic on 3 June 2009

Referring to Daily Express articles speculating that Michael Owen’s footballing career might be finished, his solicitor, John Kelly, told a libel hearing: ‘These incredulous allegations are entirely without foundation.’ continue

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