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Absolute blockbuster here, with Viacom uncovering exactly the sort of e-mails corporate employees are told not to write and if they do never to retain, and with Google/YouTube accusing Viacom of hypocritically manipulating uploads of their own to shape their own marketplace and frame YouTube. The court case will be fascinating, assuming it happens.
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Stephen provides a great round-up of the many reasons software patents are such a bad idea as a literary device to introducing his own reason. My reason: patents are a mechanism from the age of centralised control. In the age of distributed, meshed, person-to-person, unmediated connections, we need to reimplement the “patent” idea, not just patch it to try to make it fit the new artefacts of the new age.
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I’m planning on attending – I expect to give a talk on why opne source matters in an age of ACTA. Or something.
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I rambled for an hour in conversation with Jono Bacon, ultimately about my vision for OSI and the reasons why ACTA is so worrying for our digital liberties.
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