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Posts by fifi
114 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2008
Online storage start-up pitches 'USB stick on the internet'
G N' R blogger pleads guilty to copyright violation
Tuesday 16th December 2008 14:06 GMT 
doing more damage than protection
These sort of rulings probably do more damage than help.
My understanding of the article, and the case, is that this is a fan who runs a blog, promoting the band. He wasn't selling on the music, nor making it available for download (although I recognise it would be a trivial task for someone who has a clue to grab the stream). All he's done is break the copyright. While that is technically a breach of a law, I think prosecuting for this sort of usage is overbearing and counterproductive.
I wasn't likely to buy the new G'n'R album anyway, but I'd be even less inclined to do so now, considering how their record label is treating their fans.
IWF rethinks its role
Friday 12th December 2008 10:08 GMT
Why the new law?
"Since the Ministry of Justice has repeatedly claimed that the new law will only catch material that would already be illegal under the Obscene Publications Act, a window of opportunity exists for people to refer material on sites outside the UK to the IWF, obtain an assessment as to whether it is obscene, and then act accordingly."
If the material is already illegal under existing laws, then why not prosecute or otherwise deal with the matter under the existing law? There's no need to introduce a new law, which marginalises and criminalises ordinary people going about their daily business.
Lapland New Forest website suffers 'unusual technical problems'
Apple unleashes not-crap iPhone iPod earbuds
Lapdancing 'not sexually stimulating', MPs hear
Thursday 27th November 2008 11:28 GMT 
Burlesque?
What about the resurgence of burlesque? It's not lap-dancing, but it can often feature nudity, and it's certainly very much in the vein of entertainment and not sex. I'd hate to see this fun form of entertainment affected by knee-jerk reactions to poorly run lap-dancing clubs.
paris, cos she's got her bits out in a definitely non-sexy way
Government finally names the day for porn ban
Thursday 27th November 2008 11:28 GMT 
ownership?
My partner has done a fair bit of modelling over the years, and some of her stuff would fall into this "extreme pornography" category, even although I'd not class any of it as remotely "sexual". Does this mean that my holding pictures of my partner, with her consent, I'm guilty of breaching this law?
It could be argued that even the photographer is guilty, if they hold onto the pictures.
A very ill-thought out piece of legislation.
A sex show of truly Olympian proportions?
Thursday 27th November 2008 11:18 GMT
not too bad
Was a little dissapointed by the presence of the Daily Star or sport or somesuch, flouting their page-3 models. I don't find page 3 to be at all "erotic", and can't help wondering if it was just there to keep the single blokes happy.
As it was, we had a pretty good day out, although I do believe there were fewer stands than last year. I suspect more a sign of the credit-crunch than reducing in popularity. We did get a rather good deal on corsetry and shoes tho.
Mythbusters RFID episode axed after 'pressure' from credit card firms
Thursday 4th September 2008 13:47 GMT
More secure, harder to copy, harder to disupute when it is copied
@ Charles Manning:
"These technologies are not 100% secure. So what: they're still more secure than the current technologies."
I agree, to SOME extent. But when the new more-secure techologies ARE abused, and they will be, and they have been touted as being secure as an absolute, not a relative. Take chip and pin. Now the onus is on the card holder to PROVE they didn't make that payment. Yes, credit card fraud may have decreased, but to those who are affected by the new forms of fraud, it's FAR more difficult to prove it IS fraud.
it's quite likely that this will be the case with any other new secure technology in passports and the like. Your RFID passport was cloned and used as ID in some crime. Since this technology is being touted as secure, it MUST have been you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
