Continuations

If you are a long time reader of Continuations, you will know that I wrote repeatedly about ACTA, the attempt to strengthen global intellectual property rights that was soundly defeated by the European Parliament. At the time I mentioned that the next attempt at roughly the same would be the TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Not unlike ACTA, most of the TPP negotiations have taken place in secret and the TPP too contains further extensions and strengthening of copyright and patent p...

Yesterday, I wrote about why the open web is under attack. Today, as promised, the follow up on what to do about it. I believe the single most important thing is to let Congress know that people actually care about this. Big companies are spending a lot of money lobbying, but good old fashioned calling and faxing (yes, faxing, at least so I am being told by folks from DC) can make a difference. Now “net neutrality,” while somewhat descriptive, is not a great term from a marketing perspective....

I have written previously about cyber security and cyber defense topics that have become more acute in the wake of several large scale attacks on banks and other companies. Unfortunately, law makers in DC are reacting the only way they seem to know how: by further broadening laws that are already overreaching and yet ineffective at the same time. In particular the House Judiciary committee is proposing changes to make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) even more draconian. As a quick rem...