A home shopping television channel has lost its legal bid to force its way higher up a satellite system’s programming menu. JML failed to prove that the allocation of channel slots by Freesat was irrational.
The credit crunch has impacted the global financial market and many businesses are struggling to survive the economic downturn. Now, a rare academic publication on private BitTorrent trackers suggests that the same is happening in private BitTorrent communities.
The credit crunch has impacted the global financial market and many businesses are struggling to survive the economic downturn. Now, a rare academic publication on private BitTorrent trackers suggests that the same is happening in private BitTorrent communities.
Defamation cases and the internet have been comfortable bedfellows, particularly given the proliferation in user generated content on the internet. The internet affords the average person (and the commerical publisher) the ability to insult any number of people with the…
Pangloss is now at the second day of SCRIPT-ed which is, as expected, both fascinating and well attended. Have taken various types of notes and further blawg will emerge. However for meantime , conference is especially notable as hotbed of legal Twitte…
Boing Boing posted a remix challenge to mock the new anti-terror posters I mentioned a few days ago.
Some of them are quite good – definitely worth a look.
The CRTC has launched an online consultation on net neutrality. Topics include the impact on user experience, innovation, the role of the CRTC, network management, and ISP transparency. Comments posted to the consultation will form part of the public record for the hearing on the issue this summer. Canadians have until April 30th to ensure that their voices are heard.
There is considerable attention being paid to the new Skype iPhone app, but the CBC reports that it will not be available in the iTunes Canada store due to patent issues.
The Kingston Whig-Standard reports that the owners of FreeDominion.ca have filed an appeal against the recent ruling ordering them to identify anonymous posters.
The BBC reports that Electronic Arts has confirmed that its next version of The Sims will be DRM-free.
In what must appear like a lifetime to his loyal fans, the popular DVD ripper aXXo hasn’t uploaded any torrents for three weeks. As always, rumors surface that claim to explain the hiatus. Has aXXo been arrested, or transferred to one of the MPAA’s covert detention facilities? Did BitTorrent’s favorite uploader fall off a cliff?
In what must appear like a lifetime to his loyal fans, the popular DVD ripper aXXo hasn’t uploaded any torrents for three weeks. As always, rumors surface that claim to explain the hiatus. Has aXXo been arrested, or transferred to one of the MPAA’s covert detention facilities? Did BitTorrent’s favorite uploader fall off a cliff?