The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly…
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Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on the upcoming copyright vote
On October 10, an important committee in the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law. It hangs in the balance, and ordinary people…
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Why politicians don’t, and can’t, understand the Internet
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren’t born with it,…
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Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities
Denmark’s ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry’s lawyer armies. This follows…
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Is it prudent to ask if Britain’s nuke subs, which also run Windows XP, have also been hit by ransomware?
Britain’s hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is…
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The six worst hypocrisies of the copyright industry in the last decade
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators – that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it,…
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Blockstream having patents in Segwit makes all the weird pieces of the last three years fall perfectly into place
Based on Blockstream’s behavior in the Bitcoin community, I have become absolutely certain that Segwit contains patents that Blockstream and/or their owners have planned…
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What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention
This month, Australia’s law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe’s abysmal 10-year failure…
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Would U.S. Congress find it acceptable that their phonecalls were recorded, sold, and published?
The United States Congress has decided that Internet Service Providers shall be Common Carriers but without the obligations of a Common Carrier. Specifically, which…
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When good loses to lawful: this thing about proper legal procedures with indefensible outcomes
It’s interesting to watch people rushing to defend the legal processes in last week’s story about a man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt,…
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