It's all so much simpler in America. If you don't like something, you litigate.
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation regularly releases its crack team of
"Look at the debates that there have been on intellectual property since the arrival of the internet. They have been loud and shallow. They have been between people who
This should be the week in which the real debate about intellectual property can finally begin. At just after noon GMT on 6 December 2006, Gordon Brown - chief architect
Free software is big business. This may come as a surprise to those whose understanding of open source software development ends at the caffeine-saturated hacker contributing code in the small
And so, one week after the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Athens, mankind continues on its spiral down the rabbit-hole. Speaking to the BBC's Pallab
"We're Google. So sue us". Thus read the headline in The New York Times, atop a story highlighting the number of legal cases brought against the
My column a fortnight ago ("Claiming our digital rights", 26 September 2006) sparked a train of thought that hasn't stopped chugging through my brain since. The
When we are caught in the centre of an emerging phenomenon, in the eye of the networked information age's storm, only the clearest thinkers can lead us to
"People who want to hide their activities online already have the tools to do so. We're just giving those tools to the general public." These were
Warning: this article cites language that some readers may find offensive
Supa Sam's blog and profile on the social-networking site Xanga looks pretty innocuous at first glance. Not
Could people power stop Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! from doing business with China's repressive regime? That's certainly what Amnesty International hoped yesterday when they launched a
It is nearly two decades since the British government tried to ban Spycatcher, and you would expect them to have learned their lesson. After throwing £2 million in legal expenses
