Category Archives: Digital rights Law & Freedom

Make Emacs yasnippet work with html-helper-mode

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yasnippet is a great emacs minor mode that lets you have lots of code snippets easily at hand. Also you can create your own snippets in a very easy way without needing to write them in emacs lisp. Basically, like … Continue reading →

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Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers … Continue reading →

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Depending on web services

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

What would happen if your access to most of your online services were to be disabled? What would you loose? I’ve been in situations where we have to decide either to run certain applications on our server, like E-mail, scheduling, … Continue reading →

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Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source … Continue reading →

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Is your ISP messing with your Internet traffic?

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

There’s been some reports on ISPs slowing down your Internet connection if you use BitTorrent or cutting your VoIP calls and many other nasty things. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a free software tool to check your connection … Continue reading →

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DRM chat at Unitec: video and slides

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

A few weeks ago I posted about me giving a talk at Unitec Monterrey about DRM and mexican copyright law titled: “DRM: ¿derechos o restricciones?”. Basically is an introduction to what DRM and copyright is, according to mexican law. I … Continue reading →

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