Selectively bred, neutered kittens with a EULA from Allerca?
Purchaser shall not sell or transfer any Cat purchased hereunder to anyone other than an immediate family member, and shall not offer to any person the purchase of a Cat or any genetic material from a Cat, the rights Purchaser may have under this Agreement, or any […]
The first person ever to be convicted of file-sharing in Sweden is finally acquitted. So screen dumps are no longer admissible. Now that may set some interesting precedence, and not just in the field of intellectual property.
Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with […]
For those that claim that the United States is a shining example of how software patents can work (Vnunet)
The US Patent and Trademark Office has reported a new record for the number of software patents awarded in a single year.
The agency issued 893 new patents on Tuesday alone, pushing the total to 30,232 in 2006 […]
As I noted a while back when Scandinavian countries were applying pressure to Apple, the U.S. would not stand for it and would stop at nothing to force dissenters into compliance. Well, here it is, the U.S. even said it publicly although they wrapped it in a big transparent lie.
A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) […]
In the latest development in the Pirate Bay story, consider the rather remarkable failure of open government. Sweden is obviously the poster child for open government, yet when Swedish Public Service requested to see the emails that had been sent back and forth between various representatives of respective government they only received 210 out of […]
German police cracks down on local TOR nodes blaming the usual suspects in an effort to deflect criticism and hide the actual agenda. Much of the criticism levelled against TOR could of course be levelled against the Internet in general and it stands to reason that TOR is only one target in an ongoing and […]
A good example of how intellectual property is being perverted and how the UN, contrary to what many American pundits would have us believe, is in fact being used in the most heinous way and acting as the best forum the United States government could ever wish for.
The Broadcast Treaty is an attempt to force […]
Boing Boing:
Steal This Film is a spectacular documentary on Sweden’s piracy movement — The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bureau think-tank and The Pirate Party, a political party. Steal This Film ingeniously combines Hollywood footage, scare-interviews with Hollywood execs, Hollywood anti-piracy PSAs and footage of interviews with Swedish pirates, politicians and people on the […]
Yes, Wired seems almost a bit obsessed with the silent war being waged over intellectual property in Sweden. There is now a new two part series on the Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party:
Part 1: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
Part 2: A Nation Divided Over Piracy
They also mention the Relakks encrypted anonymizing service which made […]
Yes, Apple, the corporation that allegedly is nothing like the moneygrubbing dark lords of Redmond. So much for the “good corporation” theory. Just in case you didn’t get it when it was revealed last month Apple managed the frankly astonishing feat of violating Chinese labour laws.
Market a product called “Profit Pod” that is completely unrelated […]
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