Here’s my presentation in Oslo from February 7, 2011. It was a 30-minute presentation, so fairly low-pace, in front of a security-based audience. To provoke…
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Future Market Value of Voice, Storage: Exactly €0
The ongoing debate on net neutrality among mobile phone carriers is amazing, and shows just how nonfunctioning that market is. I’m referring to whether…
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Sweden To Enforce Net Neutrality, Kinda
Swedish public-service television just reported that the cabinet will put forward a law proposal tomorrow intended to put an end to the practice of…
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Today, Spain voted for net censorship
Today, February 9, the Spanish senate will vote on voted for the so-called Ley Sinde (“Sinde law”) which allows executive tribunals to summarily withdraw…
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Historia del Copyright, parte 4: Los Estados Unidos y las Bibliotecas
El copyright no nació en los Estados Unidos. La idea habia aparecido mucho antes, en Europa, como vimos en los primeros capítulos de esta…
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When the United States was founded, the concept of monopolies on ideas was carried to the New World and debated intensely. Thomas Jefferson was…
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Copyright as a Fundamentalist Religion
An advantage of doing a lot of original research on copyright, and the history of copyright in particular, is that you start seeing very…
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Historia del Copyright, parte 3: El monopolio muere y resucita
Como vimos en la segunda parte de esta serie, el monopolio del copyright fue instituído como un instrumento de censura por Maria I, en…
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After Bloody Mary had enacted the copyright censorship monopoly in 1557, neither the profitable industry guild nor the censoring Crown had any desire to…
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How to Penetrate ANY Company or Agency
Penetrating an organization’s shell security and accessing its internal data, quite possibly permanently and with the capability to taint or poison it, is ridiculously…
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