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The Financial Times: “The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films.Britain would be one of the first countries in the world to impose such sanctions. Service providers say what theContinue reading “British gov’t to punish ISP providers in a bid to curb illegal downloading”

the blogherald: “In this post-9/11 world, transportation security remains a major global issue.In light of that fact, The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in America has launched a blog in order to inform the public of future initiatives and give frustrated travelers a place to air their grievances. The TSA’s Evolution of Security blog aims toContinue reading “blogging to stop terrorists: the TSA’s evolution of security blog”

danah boyd blogs about her frustration when publishing work that requires an institutional subscription to access: “On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence” has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). On the other hand, I’m deeplyContinue reading “open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals”

“Fouad Mourtada, a 26-year old IT engineer has been held under arrest in Casablanca since February 5th for “villainous practices linked to the alleged theft of the identity” of King Mohammed VI’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on the popular social networking website Facebook. Fouad appeared in court on Friday February 15th. The trial hasContinue reading “Moroccan man faces up 5 years in jail for impersonating prince”

boingboing: “Random House Audio — a division of Bertelsmann, one of the largest publishing conglomerates in the world — has announced that it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.”

InfoWorld has an article about the implications of attacking whistle blowers as more info surfaces about the closure of wikileaks.

nettime:  “Mary Flanagan is an artist and media theorist invested in developing games for social change and performance/action installations. Based on her interests Flanagan produced [giantJoystick] in 2006, and gallery {AT} calit2 is proud to present this working large-scale game-interface from February 4 to March 17 of 2008.  [giantJostick] brings together Flanagan’s diverse interests asContinue reading “Mary Flanagan Interview”

The blogosphere is abuzz with reports that the main wikileaks DNS page is unavailable due some sort of restraining order, because of reports published on the site about offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.

Techdirt: UK ISP providers plan to use users’ clickstream data in order to custom the ads to the tastes of their users.  How very nice of them.

slashdot: “Scott Jaschik sends us to Inside Higher Ed, where a librarian explains why the tradeoffs we’re facing with social networking sites — e.g. privacy vs. a space to build one’s personal “brand” — echo issues faced years ago by academics who publish in journals that their institutions’ libraries can not then afford. The authorContinue reading “Facebook, Google & Intellectual property”