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Regulatorsâ Role Seen Rising As E-Content Tied To Devices
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| Amazon deleted the Kindle file of Orwell books to remove the
| content, Manara said. The issue of sellersâ control over
| devices arose in a French case in which a mobile phone
| operatorâs customer discovered he could not use the phone with
| another telecommunications provider because of lack of
| interoperability. The user sued under an 1804 civil law
| provision stating that âOwnership is the right to enjoy and
| dispose of things in the most absolute manner.â A Paris court
| ruled that the operator could not breach this fundamental
| right, and that goods must be able to be used in the way their
| owners expect.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/09/29/regulators-role-seen-rising-as-e-content-tied-to-devices/
Will the European Parliament take its last chance to save citizens' rights?
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| "In our societies, access to the Internet is so instrumental
| to people's ability to communicate with each other that
| restricting or limiting this access cannot be decided by a
| company or even an executive agency. Only a fair trial by the
| judicial authority guarantees that citizens' rights will be
| respected. It is now Catherine Trautmann's duty to ensure that
| amendment 138 will protect citizens against the arbitrary
| blocking or limiting of their Internet access." concludes
| JÃrÃmie Zimmermann, spokesperson for the citizen advocacy
| group La Quadrature du Net.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/will-the-european-parliament-take-its-last-chance-to-save-citizens-rights
Recent:
I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
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| It used to be that just the entertainment industries wanted to control your
| computers -- and televisions and iPods and everything else -- to ensure that
| you didn't violate any copyright rules. But now everyone else wants to get
| their hooks into your gear.
|
| [...]
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| And that's the key to understanding this system. Don't be fooled by the scare
| stories of wireless devices on airplanes and in hospitals, or visions of a
| world where no one is yammering loudly on their cellphones in posh
| restaurants. This is really about media companies wanting to exert their
| control further over your electronics. They not only want to prevent you from
| surreptitiously recording movies and concerts, they want your new television
| to enforce good "manners" on your computer, and not allow it to record any
| programs. They want your iPod to politely refuse to copy music to a computer
| other than your own. They want to enforce their legislated definition of
| manners: to control what you do and when you do it, and to charge you
| repeatedly for the privilege whenever possible.
|
| "Digital Manners Policies" is a marketing term. Let's call this what it
| really is: Selective Device Jamming. It's not polite, it's dangerous. It
| won't make anyone more secure -- or more polite.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/06/securitymatters_0626
Microsoft could force your mobile into silence
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| Microsoft is developing a new technology that could force mobiles into silent
| mode, or even prevent calls from being made.
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| [...]
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| Phone jammers, which work in small spaces, are banned in the UK and come with
| a hefty fine for use.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/microsoft-could-force-your-mobile-into-silence-393006
Digital copyright: it's all wrong
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| The ACTA draft is a scary document. If a treaty based on its provisions were
| adopted, it would enable any border guard, in any treaty country, to check
| any electronic device for any content that they suspect infringes copyright
| laws. They need no proof, only suspicion.
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| They would be able to seize any device - laptop, iPod, DVD recorder, mobile
| phone, etc - and confiscate it or destroy anything on it, merely on
| suspicion. On the spot, no lawyers, no right of appeal, no nothing.
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/digital-copyright-its-all-wrong/2008/06/09/1212863783566.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
http://tinyurl.com/6ylvpx
Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year
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| Criticism from NGOs
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| Canadian law expert David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawaâs
| Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, told the Ottawa Citizen
| that the discussion paper was very close to a potential Christmas wish-list
| by Hollywood companies.
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| Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), in an earlier statement filed to USTR,
| warned against a lack in differentiation and clearness of core terms, like
| counterfeiting, infringement or piracy. âIs Microsoft a âpirateâ for
| insisting on the right to continue to infringe the z4 patents in order to use
| an infringing DRM technology to protect Microsoft software itself from
| infringement by unauthorised uses?â KEI asked in its statement.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071
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