Archive for January, 2009
Cox Communications, the nation’s third-largest cable company, on Tuesday unveiled a plan to monitor and slow Internet content it deems unimportant.
With this news, Cox joins the ranks of other Internet providers willing to tempt legal fate by getting between customers and their access to the free-flowing Web.
Comcast — which the FCC sanctioned last [...]
January 30th, 2009 | Posted in Internet, Uncategorized | No Comments
I got an interesting perspective on cloud computing service levels from a member of CHASE recently. I said that I anticipated that SLAs would increasingly become a headline issue for cloud computing as more corporates were looking at moving key…
January 27th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Latest from The Times:”Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users whorepeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, TheTimes has learnt.Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, said last year that the Government…
January 26th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Pangloss has found (via Google, how else!?) a rather interesting blog called http://blogoscoped.com/.It contains a little gem called Google Robot which certainly makes you wonder just how sensible our current legal interpretations of the Google spider …
January 25th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw, copyright | No Comments
The Pope, no doubt flushed with the media attention paid to his launching of a new Pope-Channel on You Tube, has also weighed in against Friends whoring onFacebook: “The key quote, which clearly seems to refer to Facebook friending (or at least to so-c…
January 25th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Unsurprisingly, we have been drafting and reviewing a spate of agreements for the provision of “software as a service” recently. Plenty has been written elsewhere about the increasing trend for software to be hosted by suppliers and delivered to customers…
January 22nd, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
One for Technollama this :-)We all know about the physical tokens or dongles you can now get to provide two factor authentication for your online banking services. In fact Pangloss was recently surprised to discover she could now not set up a new onlin…
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Sorry for long silence. A bit of a catch up here of some recent very important stories..Ray Corrigan helpfully reminds me that the Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform has published the responses to their P2P filesharing consulta…
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
And more!!BILETA 2009 - The 24th Annual Conference Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009Hosted by the University of Winchester Law School “To Infinity and Beyond: Law and Technology in Harmony?”Technology impacts increasingly on all…
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Apologies to anyone who has seen this before, but this is a potentially fantastic conference, worthy of re-promotion! The editors of the well-known online SCRIPT-ed journal, which comes out of the AHRC/SCRIPT Centre at Edinburgh University, have dec…
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments