On July 22nd, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian electrician living in London, put on a light denim jacker, left his flat, entered the Stockwell Underground station, bought a newspaper, and calmly descended the escalator to the platform. Apparently, Mr. Menezes looked similar to a terrorist suspect who lived in the same apartment building. […]
Many websites allow visitors to write posts and leave comments. Sometimes the visitors are assholes, and leave comments that are (in the relevant jurisdiction) illegal speech — warez, libels, plans for a terrorist attack, that sort of thing. At which point someone (typically a company that is losing money due to the forum post) will […]
(there are almost no English-language resources on this — only an incredibly inane /. discussion — please disseminate this information)
DADVSI (Droit d’Auteur et les Droits Voisins dans la Société de l’Information) is a French bill that was intended to destroy fair use. Think of it as DMCA on steroids. Can’t make or distribute a program […]