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La gestione collettiva dei diritti d'autore e connessi all'indomani della direttiva 2014/26/EU
by Giuseppe Mazziotti May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014

Ciao a tutti, vi segnalo un convegno sulla gestione collettiva dei diritti d'autore all'indomani della direttiva 2014/26/EU organizzato dalla LUISS a Roma nel pomeriggio di martedì 27 maggio: http://www.luiss.it/evento/2014/05/27/la-gestione-collettiva-dei-diritti-d-… Giuseppe -- Giuseppe Mazziotti Mobile: +39 347 3018306 Skype: giuseppe.mazziotti Website: http://mediartis.it

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What the EU's New Internet Privacy Regulation Means for the United States
by Diego Giorio May 19, 2014

May 19, 2014

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141435/henry-farrell-and-abraham-new… Segnalo questo interessante articolo di Foreign Affairs Saluti

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"The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 19, 2014

May 19, 2014

*The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age** */It's an astonishing look inside the cultural change still needed in the shift to digital --- even in one of the world's greatest newsrooms. Read it.// /By Joshua Benton There are few things that can galvanize the news world's attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times. Jill Abramson's ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced American newsroom productivity enough to skew this quarter's GDP numbers. We don't typically write about intra-newsroom politics at Nieman Lab, leaving that to Manhattan's very capable cadre of media reporters. But Abramson's removal and Dean Baquet's ascent has apparently inspired someone inside the Times to leak one of the most remarkable documents I've seen in my years running the Lab, to Myles Tanzer at BuzzFeed. It's the full report of the newsroom innovation team that was given six full months to ask big questions about the Times' digital strategy. (A summary version of it was leaked last week, but this is the big kahuna.) [...] Continua qui: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-repor…

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W3C spinge per DRM in tutti i browser
by Paolo Brini May 19, 2014

May 19, 2014

Salve, vi segnalo questo articolo di Cory Doctorow: We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell. Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report on security flaws in them (because reporting a security flaw in DRM exposes you to risk of prosecution for making a circumvention device), so they will be riddled with holes that creeps, RATters, spooks, authoritarians and crooks will be able to use to take over your computer and fuck you in every possible way. http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying… Ciao, Paolo

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Apple, Google settle smartphone patent litigations
by Marco Galli May 17, 2014

May 17, 2014

Segnalo: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA4F0S020140516?irpc=932

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"Study indicates Robots could replace 80% of Jobs"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014

*Study indicates Robots could replace 80% of Jobs** * Posted on April 16, 2014 by Colin Lewis In a few decades, twenty or thirty years --- or sooner -- robots and their associated technology will be as ubiquitous as mobile phones are today, at least that is the prediction of Bill Gates; and we would be hard-pressed to find a roboticist, automation expert or economist who could present a strong case against this. The Robotics Revolution promises a host of benefits that are compelling (especially in health care) and imaginative, but it may also come at a significant price. * **The Pareto Principle of Prediction* We find ourselves faced with an intractable paradox: On the one hand technology advances increase productivity and wellbeing, and on the other hand it often reinforces inequalities. A new study due to be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training by Stuart Elliot visiting analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), who incidentally is on leave from the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council, indicates that technology could replace 'workers for 80 percent of current jobs.' [...] Continua qui: http://robotenomics.com/2014/04/16/study-indicates-robots-could-replace-80-…

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Flleischer Harvard Nostalgia ed oblio
by Alessandro Mantelero May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014

http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/harvard-nostalgia.html personalmente non condivido molte delle sue posizioni sul right to be forgotten, ma il pezzo è sublime e merita (anche stilisticamente). -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Aggregate Professor, Politecnico di Torino Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Research Consultant, Sino-Italian Research Center for Internet Torts at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Programme Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law, Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University of Shanghai http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

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Independent Report on E-voting in Estonia
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014

Vi anticipo l'ultima frase dell'Executive Summary: /"use of the Estonian I-voting system should be immediately discontinued."/ * *juan carlos * _Independent Report on E-voting in Estonia_** * A security analysis of Estonia's Internet voting system by international e-voting experts. *Executive Summary* (Full technical report to be published here Monday, May 12.) This report was prepared by an independent group of international experts with experience of analyzing e-voting systems around the world. The team performed a security evaluation of Estonia's Internet-based e-voting system. Estonia is the only country in the world that relies on Internet voting in a significant way for legally-binding national elections --- in recent polls, 20-25% of voters cast their ballots online. The team sought to understand its strengths and weaknesses in order to inform technologists and decision makers globally about the prospects of Internet voting. The researchers studied the system by observing e-voting operations during Estonia's 2013 municipal elections, analyzing published documents, software, and source code, then conducting experiments with a laboratory recreation of the I-voting system. The analysis showed a number of serious security problems: *Obsolete threat model* The Estonian system uses a security architecture that may have been adequate when the system was introduced a decade ago, but it [...] Continua qui: https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/

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FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
by gianluca May 15, 2014

May 15, 2014

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted in favor of advancing a proposal that could dramatically reshape the way consumers experience the Internet, opening the possibility of Internet service providers charging Web sites for higher-quality delivery of their content to American consumers. The plan, approved in a three-to-two vote along party lines, could unleash a new economy on the Web where an Internet service provider such as Verizon would charge a Web site such as Netflix for the guarantee of flawless video streaming. The proposal is not a final rule, but the vote on Thursday is a significant step forward on a controversial idea <http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/net-neutrality-issue-puts…> that has invited fierce opposition from consumer advocates, Silicon Valley heavyweights, and Democratic lawmakers. The FCC will now open the proposal to a total 120 days of public comment. Final rules, aimed for the end of the year, could be rewritten after the agency reviews the public comments. After weeks of public outcry over the proposal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency would not allow for unfair, or "commercially unreasonable," business practices. He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that leave a consumer with slower downloads of some Web sites than what the consumer paid for from their Internet service provider. [...] continua qui http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-p…

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Fwd: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
by bernardo parrella May 15, 2014

May 15, 2014

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 00:50:16 -0400 From: Free Software Foundation <info(a)fsf.org> Reply-To: To: /You can read this post online at https://u.fsf.org/xk./ FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 — In response to Mozilla's announcement that it is reluctantly adopting DRM in its Firefox Web browser, Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan made the following statement: "Only a week after the International Day Against DRM <https://defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/>, Mozilla has announced that it will partner with proprietary software company Adobe to implement support for Web-based Digital Restrictions Management <https://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management> (DRM) in its Firefox browser, using Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). The Free Software Foundation is deeply disappointed in Mozilla's announcement. The decision compromises important principles in order to alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser marketshare. It allies Mozilla with a company hostile to the free software movement and to Mozilla's own fundamental ideals. Although Mozilla will not directly ship Adobe's proprietary DRM plugin, it will, as an official feature, encourage Firefox users to install the plugin from Adobe when presented with media that requests DRM. We agree with Cory Doctorow that there is no meaningful distinction between 'installing DRM' and 'installing code that installs DRM.' We recognize that Mozilla is doing this reluctantly, and we trust these words coming from Mozilla much more than we do when they come from Microsoft or Amazon. At the same time, nearly everyone who implements DRM says they are forced to do it, and this lack of accountability is how the practice sustains itself. Mozilla's announcement today unfortunately puts it -- in this regard -- in the same category as its proprietary competitors. Unlike those proprietary competitors, Mozilla is going to great lengths to reduce some of the specific harms of DRM by attempting to 'sandbox' the plugin. But this approach cannot solve the fundamental ethical problems with proprietary software, or the issues that inevitably arise when proprietary software is installed <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html> on a user's computer. In the announcement <https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-u…>, Mitchell Baker asserts that Mozilla's hands were tied. But she then goes on to actively praise Adobe's "value" and suggests that there is some kind of necessary balance between DRM and user freedom. There is nothing necessary about DRM, and to hear Mozilla praising Adobe -- the company who has been and continues to be a vicious opponent of the free software movement and the free Web -- is shocking. With this partnership in place, we worry about Mozilla's ability and willingness to criticize Adobe's practices going forward. We understand that Mozilla is afraid of losing users. Cory Doctorow points out <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm…> that they have produced no evidence to substantiate this fear or made any effort to study the situation. More importantly, popularity is not an end in itself. This is especially true for the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit with an ethical mission. In the past, Mozilla has distinguished itself and achieved success by protecting the freedom of its users and explaining the importance of that freedom: including publishing Firefox's source code, allowing others to make modifications to it, and sticking to Web standards in the face of attempts to impose proprietary extensions. Today's decision turns that calculus on its head, devoting Mozilla resources to delivering users to Adobe and hostile media distributors. In the process, Firefox is losing the identity which set it apart from its proprietary competitors -- Internet Explorer and Chrome -- both of which are implementing EME in an even worse fashion. Undoubtedly, some number of users just want restricted media like Netflix to work in Firefox, and they will be upset if it doesn't. This is unsurprising, since the majority of the world is not yet familiar with the ethical issues surrounding proprietary software. This debate was, and is, a high-profile opportunity to introduce these concepts to users and ask them to stand together in some tough decisions. To see Mozilla compromise without making any public effort to rally users against this supposed "forced choice" is doubly disappointing. They should reverse this decision. But whether they do or do not, we call on them to join us by devoting as many of their extensive resources to permanently eliminating DRM as they are now devoting to supporting it. The FSF will have more to say and do on this in the coming days. For now, users who are concerned about this issue should: * *Write to Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal and let him know that you oppose DRM <mailto:agal@mozilla.com>*. Mozilla made this decision in a misguided appeal to its userbase; it needs to hear in clear and reasoned terms from the users who feel this as a betrayal. Ask Mozilla what it is going to do to actually solve the DRM problem that has created this false forced choice. * *Join our effort to stop EME approval <https://defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5> at the W3C*. While today's announcement makes it even more obvious that W3C rejection of EME will not stop its implementation, it also makes it clear that W3C can fearlessly reject EME to send a message that DRM is /not/ a part of the vision of a free Web. * *Use a version of Firefox without the EME code*: Since its source code is available under a license allowing anyone to modify and redistribute it under a different name, we expect versions without EME to be made available, and you should use those instead. We will list them in the Free Software Directory <https://directory.fsf.org>. * *Donate to support the work of the Free Software Foundation <https://u.fsf.org/xi> and our Defective by Design <https://u.fsf.org/xh> campaign to actually end DRM.* Until it's completely gone, Mozilla and others will be constantly tempted to capitulate, and users will be pressured to continue using some proprietary software. If not us, give to another group fighting against digital restrictions." References * What is DRM? <https://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management> * https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-u… * https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ * https://defectivebydesign.org/dbd-condemns-drm-in-html * https://fsf.org/news/coalition-against-drm-in-html * https://defectivebydesign.org/oscar-awarded-w3c-in-the-hollyweb Media Contact John Sullivan Executive Director Free Software Foundation +1 (617) 542 5942 campaigns(a)fsf.org <mailto:campaigns@fsf.org> About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. -- Follow us on GNU social <https://status.fsf.org/fsf> | Subscribe to our blogs via RSS <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS> | Join us as an associate member <https://www.fsf.org/jf> Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 United States Unsubscribe <https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=130068&qid=7806…> from this mailing list. Stop all email <https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=130068&qid=7806059&h…> from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter.

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