Archive for December, 2008

IWF v Wikipedia and the Rest of the World (except OUT-LAW)

Ever late to the party, still-bronchitic Pangloss would just like to make a few points about the Great Wikipedia Cleanfeed Debacle, if only for her own aide memoire, as she’s still re-writing her porn chapter, and so she can say I told you so before i…

Gowers Rides Again

Stunning polemic by Andrew Gowers, author of the eponymous report, in the FT today. Disses term extension of sound recording copyright, and the “moral case” for it, as the lobby-driven, celebrity-star-struck tosh it is, but also says much much more. B…

Cyber(in)security roundup

Producing the Macafee VCR makes you more than normally aware that every vendor and their (robo)dog , plus apparently most NGOs, produces a report on some aspect of online spam, crime, fraud etc in that vital run up period to Christmas when apparently o…

Macafee Virtual Criminology Report 2008, and Predictions for 2009 in the IT Law World

Pangloss is back in town (well, Edinburgh) after her jaunts to Israel and London, which culminated in a brief and rather bronchitic appearance on the Today programme talking about cybercrime - the germ (contracted in Israel) was clearly genetically eng…