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The United Persons » Information property http://theunitedpersons.org helping you to save the world... & some of your tax money;) Tue, 08 May 2012 11:24:14 +0000 en hourly 1 I want to denounce in the strongest possible… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/i-want-to-denounce-in-the-strongest-possible http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/i-want-to-denounce-in-the-strongest-possible#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:31:14 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=8323 I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly. As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens’ legitimate demands. Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications. This agreement might have major consequences on citizens’ lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this mascarade.

Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament

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Policing the Police: Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/policing-the-police-the-apps-that-let-you-spy-on-the-cops/240916/

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/policing-the-police-apps-that-let-you/feed 0 Counterfeiting and piracy is a global crime and… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/counterfeiting-and-piracy-is-a-global-crime-and-it-requires-a-global-solution http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/counterfeiting-and-piracy-is-a-global-crime-and-it-requires-a-global-solution#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:48:55 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=8022 Counterfeiting and piracy is a global crime, and it requires a global solution.

Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/counterfeiting-and-piracy-is-a-global-crime-and-it-requires-a-global-solution/feed 0 SCOTUS Affirms High Standard of Proving Patents Invalid… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/scotus-affirms-high-standard-of-proving-patents http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/scotus-affirms-high-standard-of-proving-patents#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:16:13 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7951

SCOTUS Affirms High Standard of Proving Patents Invalid “Today the Supreme Court upheld the Federal Circuit’s rule that, in litigation, a patent may only be proved invalid by clear and convincing evidence. EFF filed an amicus brief in the case – Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership – supporting Microsoft’s request that the standard for proving invalidity merely be by a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not) rather than clear and convincing evidence (a high probability). [...]” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/supreme-court-affirms-high-standard-proving

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/scotus-affirms-high-standard-of-proving-patents/feed 0 We must reject ebooks until they respect our… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/we-must-reject-ebooks-until-they-respect-our-freedom http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/we-must-reject-ebooks-until-they-respect-our-freedom#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:36:03 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7938 We must reject ebooks until they respect our freedom.

Richard Stallman

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/we-must-reject-ebooks-until-they-respect-our-freedom/feed 0 Data Retention Directive does not meet the requirements… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/data-retention-directive-does-not-meet-the-requirements http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/data-retention-directive-does-not-meet-the-requirements#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:42:04 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7906

“[...] Data Retention Directive does not meet the requirements set out by the rights to privacy and data protection, for the following reasons:

the necessity of data retention as provided for in the Data Retention Directive has not been sufficiently demonstrated;
data retention could have been regulated in a less privacy-intrusive way;
the Data Retention Directive lacks foreseeability.

86. The EDPS calls upon the Commission to consider seriously all options in the impact assessment including the possibility of repealing the Directive, either per se or combined with a proposal for an alternative, more targeted EU measure.

87. A future Data Retention Directive could be considered only if there were agreement on the need for EU rules from the perspective of the internal market and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and if, during the impact assessment, the necessity of data retention, supported and regulated by the EU, could be sufficiently demonstrated, which includes a careful consideration of alternative measures. Such an instrument should fulfil the following basic requirements:

It should be comprehensive and genuinely harmonise rules on the obligation to retain data, as well as on the access and further use of the data by competent authorities.
It should be exhaustive, which means that it has a clear and precise purpose and the legal loophole which exists with Article 15(1) of the ePrivacy Directive is closed.
It should be proportionate and not go beyond what is necessary.” http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consultation/Opinions/2011/11-05-30_Evaluation_Report_DRD_EN.pdf

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Microsoft joins pre-emptive patent protection program http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/microsoft-joins-pre-emptive-patent-protection-program.ars

https://articleonepartners.com

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/microsoft-joins-preemptive-patent-protection-crowdsourcing-service/feed 0 I expect that the Battle of Internets is… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/i-expect-that-the-battle-of-internets-is http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/i-expect-that-the-battle-of-internets-is#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 20:52:53 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7770 I expect that the Battle of Internets is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of an Uncensored civilization! Upon it depends our own free life, and the long continuity of our sites and our trackers. The whole fury and might of the enemy will very soon be turned on us.

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/i-expect-that-the-battle-of-internets-is/feed 0 Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/why-the-copyright-industry-isn%e2%80%99t-a-legitimate-stakeholder-in-copyright http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/why-the-copyright-industry-isn%e2%80%99t-a-legitimate-stakeholder-in-copyright#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 09:17:55 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7697

Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright http://torrentfreak.com/why-the-copyright-industry-isnt-a-legitimate-stakeholder-in-copyright-110430/

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/why-the-copyright-industry-isn%e2%80%99t-a-legitimate-stakeholder-in-copyright/feed 0 Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in the United States… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-united-states http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-united-states#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:14:58 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7647

Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in the United States http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-us-110427/

Competing with free: anime site treats piracy as a market failure http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/competing-with-free-anime-site-treats-piracy-as-a-market-failure.ars

Cf. http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/the-only-way-to-stop-piracy-is-to-cut-prices

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-united-states/feed 0 Download a free version of The Public Domain… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/the-public-domain-enclosing-the-commons-of-the-mind http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/the-public-domain-enclosing-the-commons-of-the-mind#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:31:36 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7642

Download a free version of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/

Cf. http://www.amazon.com/Public-Domain-Enclosing-Commons-Mind/product-reviews/0300137400

“Why am I allowing you to copy the book for free? And why is Yale University Press letting me? To understand why I am doing it, watch this video by Jesse Dylan.

And if you want to understand why it makes economic sense to my publisher, read this short article. https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b46f5a58-aa2e-11db-83b0-0000779e2340.html ”

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“[...] how about if Google *did* buy the music industry? That would solve its licensing problems at a stroke. Of course, the anti-trust authorities around the world would definitely have something to say about this, so it might be necessary to tweak the idea a little.

How about if a consortium of leading Internet companies – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Baidu, Amazon etc. – jointly bought the entire music industry, and promised to license its content to anyone on a non-discriminatory basis? [...]” http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-google-should-buy-music-industry.html

Cf. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/2118220/Why-Google-Should-Buy-the-Music-Industry

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Patently Obvious “ON Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether to fundamentally alter the way American patent law is litigated. Specifically, in the context of an otherwise unremarkable patent dispute, the Court has promised to decide the degree to which juries should be allowed to question whether a patent should have been issued at all. [...]” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16Lichtman.html

]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/patently-obvious/feed 0 The Continuing Saga of the Gene Patenting Case… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/the-continuing-saga-of-the-gene-patenting-case http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/the-continuing-saga-of-the-gene-patenting-case#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:05:09 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7311

The Continuing Saga of the Gene Patenting Case

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/nature-vs-nuture-the-continuing-saga-of-the-gene-patenting-case/73359/

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“Why the US needs to blacklist, censor pirate websites”: “Piracy runs rampant on the Internet, but Daniel Castro says it doesn’t have to be this way. He wants the US government to start creating a blacklist of Internet sites; once approved by a judge, each site would be cut off from American Internet users at the Domain Name System (DNS) level, where readable locations like “arstechnica.com” are turned into numerical IP addresses. US-based credit card companies would be forbidden from doing any business with the site, and US-based advertising networks couldn’t serve ads to the site. [...]

I spoke to him recently about Web blocking, censorship, and why he believes that deep packet inspection (DPI) of Internet traffic by ISPs is more like Gmail than wiretapping. As for due process, Castro says COICA is fair—but he’s open to some tweaks”: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/why-the-us-needs-to-censor-pirate-websites.ars

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