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Digital rights Law & Freedom

Quick and Honest Guide to Creative Commons Licenses

In a way, the best way to fight piracy is by making it impossible for people to do illegal things with your works. Zacqary Adam Green came up with this handy guide to Creative Commons for his article on copyright reform. Funny as it may seem, it is a very practical and straight-to-the-point analysis of […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom

Youtube Copyright School video

This video is horrible! It reminds me of the 50’s anti socialism/communism propaganda with the voice, tone and the graphic tactics used in it. And while it doesn’t omit the topic of Fair Use, it does try to avoid it, or so it seems, by speeding up the audio and moving the letters so you […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Gave DRM talk at UANL

Today I gave a talk about DRM technologies and how they affect everyone that consumes products with them. It took place at the UANL physics and mathematics faculty. It interests me very much the fact that its the second time they invite me to give this talk (and I hope to get invited many more) […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

More ugly stories about depending on cloud computing

Depending on “the cloud” to provide all software has increasingly shown some of its issues. What’s strange is that not many people are concerned about it. Google marking all sites as unsafe Google marked all search results as unsafe websites, and when you clicked on the link, it warned you again and you had to […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Facebook terms for your uploaded content

Maybe this is old news, but I was checking Facebook’s terms of service to see if something had changed since the last time I saw them. But everytime I read this, I keep getting surprised and annoyed. The following is the exact quote from the terms of use that makes me think twice about uploading […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

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 and friends do. Gunnar Wolf sent an open letter (in spanish) to the newspaper and […]