UK Bill May Halt Public WiFi

As a man who’s currently writing this article on the public WiFi provided by my local coffee shop, I’m somewhat alarmed to hear that the UK may soon be erecting copyright standards so impossible to meet that it’d signal the end of public WiFi. The culprit? The Digital Economy Bill currently working its way through [...more]

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Mar 04 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Is Your Gigantic Flatscreen Illegal?

Here’s a fun fact: television screens over 55 inches could run afoul of the law! Ars Technica has a fun article up that directly concerns your next big-screen Super Bowl party – according to Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 110 of US Copyright Law states that “TV broadcasts and movie showings can only be displayed [...more]

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Feb 02 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos