Matthew Toseland wrote:
Under UK law almost any time you copy a file is a copyright infringement
unless you have explicit permission or are covered by one of the
incredibly narrow exceptions. There is no real fair use, in the
american sense. I might argue that in the UK it is necessary to accept
It feels odd to be talking about anything non-World-Trade-Center-related
right now, but anyway: there's a free one-day conference coming up on
September 27 that UK folks might be interested in. Caspar Bowden of the
Foundation for Information Policy Research is speaking, as is Prof. Jeffrey
Mr. Bad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian programmer arrested by the FBI at Def Con
on July 16th after giving a talk on security holes in Adobe System's
eBook software. He's also the author of a piece of software that
allows legitimate purchasers of eBooks to exercise fair
Sect Clings to the Web in the Face of Beijing's Ban
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/world/05FALU.html?pagewanted=all
Tapping away at one of his computers in a cramped two-room apartment in
western Beijing, Lloyd Zhao is engaged in an extraordinarily dangerous
endeavor - searching through the
This is somewhat old news in a sense, but I haven't heard anything about
this before, so maybe it is news to other people as well.
Marillion has just released a new album, Anoraknophobia -- what's
interesting about it is that production of the album was funded entirely by
pre-sales to fans over
fyi - conference in Cambridge (UK) with Gene Spafford and Whitfield Diffie:
For those of you who don't know, the Cambridge Review of International
Affairs is hosting a conference on the Internet and State Security on
May 19. It is followed by a semi-formal dinner at Peterhouse with a
