It has been quite widely reported that Panama decided to order local ISPs to block a serie of UDP ports.
It has everybody all stirred up. Do they realize that VoIP services are illegal in one form or the other in many many countries? Interconnection rates for international connections make outgoing calls from these countries a very lucrative business for incumbent carriers and any technology that allows to avoid those rates is not welcome.
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The American Open Technology Consortium has release a list of « Washington’s Worst Coders » — the lawmakers who sponsored six fantastically bad anti-tech laws.
HiIlary Rosen (thats’s her « Google URL ») debating at Oxford.
Juicy bits: Hilary Rosen asks « Put up your hand if you download and burn music » (most hands go up). She then asks « Keep you hand up if you buy more music because of it » (many stay up). She gets worried and immediately asks some different and confusing set of people to put their hands up, causing everyone to look miffed, and everyone putting their hand down)
[via BoingBoing]
Intéressant, pour Pseudo à cause de l’implication sur la vie privée et les documents judiciaires, et pour moi a cause du lien avec ENUM. Ce sont les mêmes questions à la base: est-on capable d’assumer les principes de documents publics au delà de la réthorique?
[via Jon Udell]
Region Control. The EU says Nintendo can’t do it. I just wish I had the URL to the actual decision.
It is very similar to the DVD RPC mechanism. This is going in my thesis. I’m blogging for a degree. Yay!
You gotta love the timing with Balmer whining about Australia’s law on chipping the XBox (they have a similar law for DVD players (and I think I read about Finland having something similar. I should have written that down (see, that’s oe reason why I wanted to start writing stuff down)))
Anyways, it’s also at LawMeme.
[via NetNewsWire, really…]
En discutant avec Fizzz hier il m’a proposé le concept de meta-meta rss browser. En gros, une facon de pas avoir a se taper les mêmes nouvelles sur 5 sites différents, un genre de mélange entre google news et un news reader threadé.
Ben il s’adonne qu’ajourd’hui la même discussion a lieu ici.
Don Henley encouraging everyone to “Download all you want”. “The record companies have been ripping artists off for years”, he said. “Go ahead. I’d rather lose money to you than them. I don’t have a contract with you.”
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Concrètement, ca veut dire quoi?
Voici une de livres qu’il est illégal de lire dans les pays où le terme du droit d’auteur excède 50 ans suivant la mort de l’auteur, les États-Unis notamment
La liste inclu Animal Farm, 1984, Mein Kampf, Finnegans Wake, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, The Great Gatsby et l’autobiographie de Mark Twain.
J’aimerais bien voir une liste semblable qui incluerait des auteurs non-anglo saxons et dans le domaine de la peinture et les oeuvres musicales
[via Aaron Swartz]
Here is the unofficial transcript of the oral arguments presented by Lessig and Olson on October 9th 2002 at Supreme Court in the Eldred case.
CA – ELECTRONICALLY PUBLISHED LAWS: Bill 179 2002, which was recently given first reading in the Ontario legislature, proposes amendments to the Ontario Evidence Act that would make the online version of provincial statutes generally admissible for evidentiary purposes. Currently, only the official printed version of Ontario statutes is valid for evidentiary purposes.
[ BMCK E-law alert ]
Doc Searls écrit qu’a cause de son interprétation restrictive et stricte du DMCA, la librairie du Congrès (et sa libraire en chef) ne sont pas nos amis.
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Joli article sur les brevets chez Wired.
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Pour faire suite à ceci, le
Bernstein Report
d’Aaron Swartz rapporte un moratoire sur les poursuites contre les congrès de cryptographe (oui oui, c’était une question, souvenez vous du débat qui avait entouré DeCSS), y compris les cas impliquant du code assembleur (composante fonctionnelle plus grande, composante expressive subjectivement plus faible).
Un point pour le camp « code is speech ».
« Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. »
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, « The Poet »
[ attrbution Aaron Swartz]
Et Disney ne crée rien, ou enfin pirate, c’est le cas de le dire, quand ça fait leur affaire. C’est quand même moche un discours à 2 faces comme ça.
The spirit of disney
It is wonderful to see that the spirit of my hero, Walt Disney, still lives at that amazing company…. [Lessig Blog]