Why the Digital Economy Act simply won’t work – Cory Doctorow, Guardian
Cory Doctorow über den britischen Digital Economy Act: “Once non-anonymous, non-encrypted downloading bears a significant risk, downloaders will simple switch to anonymised, encrypted alternatives.”

Putting Online Privacy in Perspective – O’Reilly Radar
Suchmaschinenexperte Danny Sullivan vergleicht die Debatten über Datenschutz online und offline: “My telephone company keeps my phone records for I don’t know how long. Imagine that. They know who I called and for how long.
But yeah, thank you Washington Post for focusing on the fact that Xbox Live keeps track of when I began and ended my game playing. Yeah, thanks for spending time talking about IP addresses. Could they have shoved even one paragraph of perspective in there? Could we get one of the privacy groups to maybe call for some better national standards protecting user information on and OFFline? If they are, I never hear the offline part.”

The Walled Garden – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
Neven Mrgan über die Metapher des eingezäunten Gartens für Plattformen wie Appls iPhone/iPad-System: “Aren’t the benefits of a closed, carefully managed garden clearly visible? The experience is controlled, so it tells a story – one which may not emerge from a democratic, anything-goes process (or do you think this sort of slow and deliberate story would emerge in a busy American city in the year 2010?) Charging for admission means that the place can be maintained, improved, and marketed. There are downsides to this, of course — maybe the management makes boneheaded decisions now and then. Maybe you think that vine maple would look better a little to the left — maybe you’re even right.”

The RIAA? Amateurs. Here’s how you sue 14,000+ P2P users – ars technica
Eine Gruppe von Anwälten hat das großflächige Übernehmen von P2P-Klagen in den USA zum Geschäftsmodell gemacht.

Why IBM, Chipmakers Are Backing an Open-source Linux Company. Hint: Intel – GigaOM
Mehrere Technologie-Unternehmen finanzieren ein Open-Source-Startup, das die kommende Diversifizierung von Endgeräten einfacher machen soll: “The company will release software on a six-month basis, which would in turn allow companies to focus all their energies on developing user interfaces, applications and other enhancements to their operating systems. And because of the open source nature of the effort, theoretically speaking, everyone from Android to MeeGo can use Linaro’s software and enhance it.”

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