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EU regulator wants U.S. to liberalize online gaming prohibitions: what do you think?

  Over on this other blog I do, I wrote that EU European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is in Washington D.C. trying to talk influential U.S. Congresspeople to overturn a U.S. ban on Internet gambling. It would appear that Mandelson's concerns are being...

Tags: u.s., regulator, online game, prohibition, european union, jerk, internet, games, personal technology, russell shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Prohibition redux?

Prohibition redux?I Wish I were a JudgeAnd which state gets the tax, the seller's or the buyer's? Or will this finally result in tax-free liquor? (The outcome probably doesn't matter anyway, because of backdoor prohibition which prevents most drinking through fear of the blood-alcohol test.)Yes, God gorbid if...

Tags: taxes, free trade, prohibition, alcohol

Discussion threads 2004-11-08

Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law

Tech heavies support challenge to copyright lawA step in the right directionThe DMCA should have had that wording when it was originally conceived. A great start, but I would really be surprised if it passed.Let's hope soI hope this passes and helps prove to the nay-sayers that not everyone...

Tags: digital media, digital rights management (drm), peer to peer (p2p), now let, dmca, prohibition, digital-rights management, copyright law

Discussion threads 2004-06-22

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Prohibition 2.0

Prohibition 2.0Version skippingAt least version 3.0, perhaps higher.The "War on Drugs" was at least version 2.0, and you could count the fiasco over the 55 mph speed limit as another.This is why it's a bad idea......to let lobbyists write the laws. If the average citizen comes to the conclusion...

Tags: government, vertical industries, prohibition 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: criminal, larry lessig, intellectual property, research & development, business operations, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Open source should support Apple over Psystar

Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...

Tags: eula, open source, apple inc., gpl, joomla

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?

Canada has a new copyright law that limits consumers' liability for copyright infringement but exposes them to thousands of dollars in penalties for circumventing anti-copying technology, the Globe and Mail reports. The existing copyright law, passed in 1997, exposes consumers to a maximum of $20,000 in statutory...

Tags: law, copyright law, dmca, canada, e-books, personal technology, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorshipThis is nonsense ...Any company wanting to do business anywhere in the world has to abide by the laws of that nation. We cannot imposed the First Amendment on the Chinese Government any more than they can imposed censorship on us. ...

Tags: government, vertical industries, censorship

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?Assumptions"Assuming they pay Apple for every copy they sell..."D'ya think this may be the little hitch in your argument? By what mechanism exactly do you see Apple accepting money from a company that is aggressively violating their license? This improbability can only occur...

Tags: apple mac os x, operating systems, pystar, apple inc., mac-clone

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws

Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court. In an interview with...

Tags: eula, apple inc., psystar, monopoly law, apple mac os x, operating systems, software, apple mac os, adrian kingsley-hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Vista virtualization: The bigger picture

As Mary Jo Foley noted earlier this week, Microsoft has belatedly gotten around to relaxing its licensing rules so that customers can install any edition of Windows Vista in a virtual machine, including the less expensive Home Basic and Home Premium flavors. I haven't seen anyone document...

Tags: license agreement, virtualization, license, oem, microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., difference, hardware, virtual machine, ultimate, hardware system, vm, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), digital rights management (drm), operating systems, software, security, ed bott

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Should AT

Should ATChild PornographyI think this a great step forward to get rid of the scumbags who store, profit and share Child Pornography on the Internet. Any company who is willing to take on that responsibility, reporting their findings with the Authorities, supporting with their technology should be highly rewarded and...

Tags: att, at&t corp., child pornography

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet

When politicians can come out against sex offenders in some way, that's always a good thing for the press officer. The latest nice-idea-in-concept-but-how-do-you-enforce-it law comes from New Jersey, which joins Nevada and Florida in barring certain sex offenders from using the Internet, AP reports. Offenders who contacted...

Tags: monitoring, computer, sex offender, internet, social networking, productivity, online communications, marketing, advertising & promotion, richard koman

Blog posts 2007-12-28

Watch these FTC privacy principles and expect a skirmish

Along with its approval of Google's DoubleClick acquisition Thursday the Federal Trade Commission outlined some core privacy principles that may have a bigger impact than the merger over time. While Google's acquisition of DoubleClick is getting all of the attention (Techmeme, blog post and news story) these...

Tags: advertisement, privacy, ftc, proposal, news, mergers & acquisitions, security, investment, finance, larry dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-20

EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fight

EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fightBut when the other shoe drops ...Let's be clear what this is about. Congress snuck the anti-gambling provision last year into a "motherhood-and-apple-pie" bill providing funding to help secure the nation's ports against terrorism. They snuck the gambling amendment in at the...

Tags: taxes, free trade, compensation deal, tax, u.s. congress, compensation

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Big Telco wants to ream you with "deep packet inspection"

You may experience mild discomfort The extremist "free market" crowd wants to toss hundreds of years of common and public law in the toilet so a few near-monopolies can maximize their profits and minimize your choices. Should you care? Only if you use the Internet. "We...

Tags: network, comcast corp., telecommunications company, cell phone, information, nothing, internet, telecom & utilities, corporate governance, cellular phones, federal government, telecommunications, business operations, corporate law, consumer electronics, personal technology, government, robin harris

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. Comcast

Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. ComcastWe are all criminals I supposeI've read about this so often I've been ignoring it. I was succeeding until I realized, while trying to download a new linux iso, that the reason the download wasn't completing successfully was because the connection was...

Tags: internet service providers (isps), bittorrent, comcast corp., internet service provider, bandwidth, net neutrality

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Privacy: Not So Ironclad

A recent Israeli court case has Google divulging the identity of an anonymous blogger. To find out the implications for US law we asked two US and Israeli attorneys, David Mirchin and Russell Mayer, for their opinions here's what Russell had to say. David's opinion can be found...

Tags: google inc., court, privacy, israel, identity, david, dave greenfield

Blog posts 2007-11-28

French laws force Apple to offer unlocked iPhone

The French government has achieved what an army of hackers have so far failed to do: Unlock the iPhone in such a way that Apple will relock or "brick" the phone. Apple has agreed to make an unlocked version of the phone for the French market in order to comply...

Tags: apple iphone, government, apple inc., telecom & utilities, manufacturing, wi-fi, wireless, zdnet government

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Best to avoid iPhone update 1.1.1 if you can

Best to avoid iPhone update 1.1.1 if you canWhy?Do you think just anybody will take your advice?Who do you think are the majority of iPhone users anyway?You're just spreading FUD.RE: Best to avoid iPhone update 1.1.1 if you canhehe,Adrian, you are old enough to have heard about frustrated people who...

Tags: telecom & utilities, apple iphone, iphone update 1.1.1, iphone update, phone

Discussion threads 2007-09-28