These are the perils of automatic copyright protection plans.
Apparently Dreamworks sent a note to a Swedish BitTorrent tracker site asking that its content be removed, citing the American Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
The site responded with the following: (more…)
Microsoft is under pressure to speed up compliance with EU laws.
MS have been forced by the European Commission to rename a new version of its Windows XP software to Windows XP Home Edition N.
The ‘N’ in the new name stands for “not with media player”.
(more…)
ICANN to Shortly Announce .NET Operator
The search for a new .net operator, which began with Request for Proposals on 10 December 2004, will soon reach its final stages on 28th March 2005, when Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will release the evaluators’ final report and rankings of the five applicants - Aflilias, CORE++, DENIC, Sentan, and VeriSign.
(more…)
Due to a “quirk” in the WordPress upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5 the authors decided taht it would be a great idea to wipe out all our custom templates and style sheets, so the blog’s looking a bit on the wonky side - please bear with us while we beat the server admin around the head with something heavy for using our system as the beta-test environment…
Powered by WordPress
