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Polish minister Michal Boni is telling lies to get the ACTA agreement signed
Poland will sign ACTA despite massive protests,...
January 10, 2012
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December 13, 2011
Veteran peace activist Gerry Condon writes at the Shannonwatch web site:
After 18 months in prison, Bradley Manning, the young American soldier accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, will finally have his day in court. Next Friday, Dec. 16, Private First Class Manning will appear before a military judge for a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland, not far from Washington, DC. The “Article 32” hearing,...
December 4, 2011
Boingboing writes:
The Swiss government commissioned a study on the impact of copyright-infringing downloading. The independent study concluded that downloaders use the money they spend to buy more legitimate entertainment products. So they’ve concluded to maintain Switzerland’s extant copyright law, which makes downloading for personal use legal. It’s a rare...
December 3, 2011
PC World writes:
The Pirate Party’s representative in the European Parliament has warned that a new European Union funding package for IT innovation could seriously damage open source licensing.
”The essence of open source is that you share everything freely and that is simply not compatible with Article 41 of the proposal. I feel very disappointed in the protectionist nature of the ”Europe First” element. The ability to...
November 22, 2011

The mobile operators that are former state monopolies are opposed to meaningful caps on data roaming prices
Last week I met with lobbyists from Telekom Austria, on the subject of data roaming. Everybody agrees...






