Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on the "insidious" quality of vertical integration:
The Web's infrastructure can be thought of as composed of four horizontal layers; from bottom to top, they are the transmission medium, the computer hardware, the software, and the content. ... I am more concerned about ...
arts technica has an interesting summary/critique of a working paper, titled "File-Sharing and Copyright" by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. Since the genesis and intent of most copyright law is to stimulate creativity -- not to protect authors and publishers -- Oberholzer-Gee & Strumpf argue that while file-sharing might be ...
On May 29, 2009, Obama announced his intention to appoint a "cyber czar" to coordinate cybersecurity policy for private and government computer networks in the US. Obama also argued the importance of educating the public about cybersecurity while highlighting the dialectical reality of cyberspace:
Cyberspace is real and so are ...
According to Wired's Threat Level blog:
Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Union Parliament, swept in Sunday amid outrage over a new copyright law and the convictions of the four founders of The Pirate Bay.
The party, formed to protest copyright law, took 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden ...
from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr:
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have ...
