In 2008, when the recording industry was successfully lobbying for an extension to the term of copyright to 95 years, I wrote about a spectacular unfairness tha| net.wars
This week, the clock started ticking on the UK's Online Safety Act. Ofcom, the regulator charged with enforcing it, published its codes of practice and guidance| net.wars
The themes at this week's Scrambling for Safety, hosted by the Foundation for Information Policy Research, are topical but not new since the original 1997 event| net.wars
The inxodus onto Bluesky noted here last week continues apace: the site's added a million users a day for more than a week, gradually slowing down from 12 new u| net.wars
If you were to judge just by behavior, you would have to conclude that the entertainment industry's rights holders are desperate to promote piracy. The latest| net.wars
It seems no manufacturer will be satisfied until they have turned everything they make into an ongoing revenue stream. Once, it was enough to sell widgets. Then| net.wars