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I'm an engineer that's also a writer. I'm UK based, and deal with the political sides of things most often. dmcawanted@gmail.com Public GPG Key 0x6C87DD5FPersonal site

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  • Federal Judge Fires Phasers, Photons at Prenda for $80k Damages

    A month ago a Los Angeles courtroom played host to some of the most stunning and incredible action ever seen in a copyright case. Seat swaps, judges enraged, lawyers silenced, and all within 12 minutes. Since then, many have keenly anticipated the outcome of the hearing and yesterday Judge Wright delivered an order worth waiting for.

  • Prenda Copyright Trolls Plead the Fifth

    The ongoing saga of ‘Prendageddon’ had its latest episode today. After the March 11 case, many were expecting a heavy-handed battle of wits between Judge Otis Wright II and John Steele and co in court today. Popcorn was popped, the legal bloggers were in court, and fingers eagerly danced on keyboards waiting for twitter updates. [...]

  • UK Government ‘Wastes’ £200k on New Anti-Piracy Tech

    In ever-more futile efforts to ‘fix’ piracy, lots of methods have been tried, and it’s doubtful there are very many left, except the obvious one of giving consumers what they want. Now the UK Intellectual Property Office has given almost £200,000 to two new projects that will almost certainly fail.

  • Copyright Troll Suffers Website Attacks

    Prenda, the lawfirm-that-isn’t (or is, they’re not quite sure), may be in for a massive battle for their freedom next week. But their legal careers aren’t the only things taking a battering this past week, it’s their website as well. Websites can be the bane of many, and they’ve not always been the friend of [...]

  • Norwegian Pirate Party Gets Official Recognition

    Earlier this week the Australian Pirate Party was approved by its government as a political party. Despite claims by the ignorant that it’s just a ‘one trick pony’, the political movement based on transparency & accountability of government officials; increased personal privacy; and reform of copyright, trademark and patent laws can chalk up yet another [...]

  • Colombian Court Strikes Down Unconstitutional Copyright Law

    Wednesday had great news for technologically literate Colombian citizens, as a far-reaching copyright law has been struck down. The Constitutional Court of Columbia found “Ley Lleras 2” to be unconstitutional, mainly stemming from irregularities in how it was passed.

  • Finland’s Crowdsourced Copyright Law Proposal

    France may be stepping up their HADOPI scheme, but not every European country is heading the same way. In Finland, a new procedure, passed last year might bring a radical change to the copyright law. The secret is public participation. There is some history of public participation schemes in several countries already. The US government [...]

  • Pirate Bay Branded “Malware Distributor” by Google

    Users of Firefox and Chrome may have a little difficulty access some pages on the Pirate Bay, or indeed any other site that uses the bayimg service provided by TPB. A series of malware alerts, sent to Google, have resulted in sites being flagged by their content advisory service. If you’re on Chrome, the advisory [...]

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