Lawsuits you, Sir!

No, the lawsuits aren't inevitable following the Google takeover of YouTube - but the real change will be "the advertising, stupid!" - and that's another story. Where will it go?

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Edited by author 11-03-2006 10:14 AM

But none, I think, do there embrace...

The quote is from Andrew Marvell ("To His Coy Mistress") but Wendy's sermon this week takes privacya little more seriously and rather less terminally...
See the text of the poem for the allusion...

Always the bridesmaid...

Wendy is not an ICANN Board member. Did this surprise her?

Not as much (it seems) as the lame questions they asked.

It couldn't happen here...

Civil freedom - in the UK, we have it. It means that we would never have internet content blocking the way they do it in China.

...right?

Except, obviously, for kiddie porn. And maybe hate crime. Oh, and possibly, well, don't we all have a little list?

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Edited by author 12-08-2006 07:00 AM

Gowers: but will the US permit it?

This week's column, Wendy praises Gowers on copyright but wonders whether the UK Government will be strong enough to resist US pressure to ignore his recommendations...
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Autonomy for Web users

Fancy doing a piece to the CFP audience next year?

Well, why not tell Wendy what your speech would cover? She might even get you in...
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Power Voting!

Some people (get this) are still pretending that US voting machines are not thoroughly corrupt! This column suggests why you should ignore them...

 

net.wars: two networks

Wendy summarises: because the two markets – wireless phones and the Internet – have developed from opposite directions, we have two network neutrality debates, not one. The wonder is that it took us so long to notice.

See this week's column...

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Minute Life? Hour Life?

It's not just InfoSEcurity that fascinates our resident Second Life Coach this week. No, she's been sent to cover a second-world event...

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Secret History

Or, a history of secrets. It's a good question as to whether secrets and freedom and privacy are compatible...

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Edited by author 05-11-2007 10:51 AM

Not just ID cards

Would British technology be further ahead, or further behind if we hadn't had a Blair in charge?

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Fie on levitation!

Can Uri Geller bend spoons? Can other people use his lessons to do so? Hard to say. But here's an easier question to answer: Does Geller own copyright in a 15-minute video, in which there is a three second quotation from some of his own footage?

Edited by author 06-01-2007 11:51 AM

The Whites - and the sunny side...

Always look on the sunny side - no, the bright side. No, dammit, that's the Pythons. Anyway, Google can make you feel cheerful.

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Britney Spears!

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I didn't write this...

Wendy was the one who mentioned Wayne Crookes on NewsWireless.

Nonetheless, if she offended him then (it turns out) It's All My Fault.

And if you linked to NewsWireless - no matter that you linked to an article on WiFi antenna design - then you're equally culpable.

I don't mind sharing my opinion on this subject with the world: I think that if Crookes really is sueing people on this grand a scale, then he has "issues" which are probably better resolved by a therapist than in Court. It's not that I don't sympathise with someone who has been libelled: I do! But surely, all you have to do is establish that the statement complained of is libellous and unfair? Why take down everybody else in a world war about it?

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Too few votes cast?

It's a theory, sure: "Without passionate supporters there would be no candidates." If e-voting bores the pants off everybody, will there be politicians?

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Linden dollars may not be gambled!

It's illegal to gamble online in the US (not that this actually stops the habit, but there...) and therefore it must be illegal to have an online Casino in Second Life.

But it's not illegal for paedophiles to access web sites. So is MySpace entitled to ban them from MySpace access?

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