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Re: [nexa] Europeans' Privacy will be big challenge in next decade ...

by Andrea Glorioso

>>>>> "carmelo" == Carmelo Fontana <carmelo_fontana(a)yahoo.it> writes: > Cosi' lo statement della EC per il Data Protection Day. > Di seguito la press release: > http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/63&format=HTM… > aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Sarebbe interessante sapere cosa ne pensano gli iscritti alla lista del problema della privacy, e soprattutto quali dovrebbero essere le soluzioni da adottare per il futuro. Ciao, -- Andrea Glorioso (M: +32-488-409-055 F: +39-051-930-31-133) * Le opinioni espresse in questa mail sono del tutto personali * * The opinions expressed here are absolutely personal * "Constitutions represent the deliberate judgment of the people as to the provisions and restraints which [...] will secure to each citizen the greatest liberty and utmost protection. They are rules proscribed by Philip sober to control Philip drunk." David J. Brewer (1893) An Independent Judiciary as the Salvation of the Nation

Jan. 29, 2010

First part of Sharing and the Creative Economy: Culture in the internet Age is on-line

by Philippe Aigrain

Dear all, As announced at the NEXA Conference, we have started publishing Sharing and the Creative Economy: Culture in the internet Age. The first part is on-line! See: http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?page_id=171&lp_lang_view=en Pay special attention to the diagram page 21 and the appendix on "Diversity of attention in peer-to-peer file sharing" page 46. These are now based on real large scale empirical studies. This is only a provisional home for the edition. it will be lodged in a special section of La Quadrature du Net site. Best, -- Philippe Aigrain

Jan. 29, 2010

Europeans' Privacy will be big challenge in next decade ...

by Carmelo Fontana

Cosi' lo statement della EC per il Data Protection Day. Di seguito la press release: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/63&format=HTM… Ciao a tutti, C. Carmelo Fontana carmelo_fontana(a)yahoo.it

Jan. 28, 2010

Fwd: [fcforum] EXCLUSIVE!! Confessions from an ACTA negotiator

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [fcforum] EXCLUSIVE!! Confessions from an ACTA negotiator Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:37:56 +0100 From: Jérémie ZIMMERMANN - La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Reply-To: fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net Organization: La Quadrature du Net To: fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://ur1.ca/kuln j - -- - --- La Quadrature du Net --- http://www.laquadrature.net - --- twitter: j_zim --- identi.ca: jzim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkthWvQACgkQ1eTOPM/5+wuq8QCffVSaADTqv9WJBGc+vzDeb7UW w5gAn3RGycYgbNTwy0ZYtglXvOHGVH5k =WBTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Jan. 28, 2010

Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition! Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:51:57 +0100 From: <csdva(a)wowm.org> Reply-To: fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net To: <fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net> ----- Original Message ----- Dear supporter, Today, Apple launched a computer that will never belong to its owner. Apple will use Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to gain total veto power over the applications you use and the media you can view. We've launched a petition calling out Apple's new product for what it is: a frightening step backward for computing and for media distribution. Can you read it, sign it, and share with friends? http://defectivebydesign.org/ipad Also, when you've signed, please take the time to share the petition on sites like Identi.ca and Reddit: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/shareipad Defective by Design's John Sullivan is on the ground at the Apple event with a group of protesters, letting the public and journalists know about the "Restriction Zone" Apple is constructing around their products. We'll be posting images from the event throughout the day, so sign the petition and please check back frequently and help us circulate these images. http://defectivebydesign.org/ipad This summer we saw the dangers of DRM on ebook readers, when Amazon deleted hundreds of copies of George Orwell's 1984 from readers' computers while they slept. Applying this control to a general purpose computer marketed especially for media distribution is a huge step backward for computing, and a blow to the media revolution that happened when the web let bloggers reach millions without asking for permission. DRM and forced updates will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to disable features, restrict competition, censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from users' computers while they sleep-- using the device's "always on" network connection. Apple can say they will not abuse this power, but their record of App Store rejections gives us no reason to trust them. The Apple Tablet's unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution; we demand that Apple remove DRM from the device. http://defectivebydesign.org/ipad Thank you for your support! Sincerely, Holmes Wilson, Matt Lee, Deborah Nicholson, Peter Brown and John Sullivan -- the DRM Elimination Team P.S. If you haven't already, register your Defective by Design account: http://defectivebydesign.org/user/register ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jan. 28, 2010

Decreto Romani, in arrivo procedura di infrazione dalla Commissione

by Paolo Brini

http://bit.ly/bVEr4H Ciao, Paolo

Jan. 27, 2010

Fwd: German Music Industry Association: postion paper on culture flat-rate

by Philippe Aigrain

For information. ---------- Message transmis ---------- Subject: [acs eu] German Music Industry Association: postion paper on culture flat-rate Date: lundi 25 janvier 2010 From: Volker Grassmuck <vgrass(a)rz.hu-berlin.de> German: http://www.musikindustrie.de/aktuell_einzel/back/84/news/positionspapier-zu… kulturflatrate/ google-translation into English: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&… zur-kulturflatrate%2F&sl=de&tl=en Reply to follow soon. best, Volker ---- http://www.vgrass.de/ http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/

Jan. 25, 2010

"HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web January 22, 2010 in Long Attention Span <http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/category/long-attention-span/>, Standards <http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/category/standards/>, Video <http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/category/video/> | 35 comments <http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/01/html5-video-and-h-264-what-history…> /For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post <http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_freedom_a.html> on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post <http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codecs/> as well. This post differs from theirs in that I want to talk about network effects, why codecs should be considered a fundamental web technology and what the long-term effects of the choices at this inflection point might look like./ Recently Youtube announced <http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-suppor…> that you could test out an HTML5-enabled version of their site. They said that they were doing this partially based on people’s “number one request” that Youtube do more with HTML5. (They left out the other half of that #1 request – that the implementation be based on open codecs, but more on that later.) Not to be outdone, Vimeo rushed to announce a beta version of their player <http://vimeo.com/blog:268> based on their site that claims HTML5 support as well. To be clear, this is great news. This is just the latest in a long string of changes for video on the web. We started with a raw “player” delivered by Real Media. Then on to media embedded directly in pages via Windows Media + Quicktime. More recently video on the web has been a a platform play by Flash. And finally to a place where media becomes a first class citizen on the web without a single source provider. These moves by Google and Vimeo (and before either of them, DailyMotion) show that things are changing for the better, and faster than I think anyone could have imagined. The players from Google and Vimeo do present a pretty serious problem, though. Each of these require a proprietary H.264 codec <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264> to be able to view them. These codecs aren’t compatible with the royalty-free web standards that the rest of the web is built on. The fact that they are being so unabashedly hyped along with the new darling of the web – HTML5 – means that most people don’t understand that something very dangerous is taking place behind the scenes. If you think that this isn’t an issue that’s worth worrying about you need to read the rest of this post. In particular the history of GIF shows us what happens when patented technologies are used on the web and what happens when network effects over-run the natural drive to royalty-free technologies at scale. MP3 pricing gives us a glimpse into the strategy around H.264 licensing and what the landscape might look like 5 years from now, assuming H.264 were baked into the web platform as a requirement. I’ll also talk about other options that might be coming in the near future that most people don’t know about.è [...] Continua qui: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/01/html5-video-and-h-264-what-history…

Jan. 25, 2010

Equo compenso

by Guido Scorza

Equo compenso: proviamo a farlo saltare o, almeno, a ridimensionarlo? Io la vedo così: http://punto-informatico.it/2794487/PI/Commenti/tassa-sull-equo-compenso.as… Buon pomeriggio G. __ www.guidoscorza.it

Jan. 25, 2010

NYTimes: "IBM CEO on Lessons & Opportunities in Internet of Things"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/22/22readwriteweb-ibm-… jc

Jan. 24, 2010