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global minilinks for 2009-02-20

DEEPLINKS BLOG
By Danny O'Brien
February 20, 2009

global minilinks for 2009-02-20

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  • Italian Government to Research Skype Interception
    Growing attempt by governments seeking to understand and perhaps undermine encrypted VOIP.
  • Rightsholders Scold Canada, China & Sweden for Internet Piracy
    Latest report by media industries to US government highlighting their top targets for new copyright legislation.
  • Technical Aspects of the Censoring of Archive.org
    How the filtering practices of the UK Internet Watch Foundation interacted with Archive.org's caching system to block British access to innocent pages.
  • Former MI5 Chief, Attacks Britain and US Over Surveillance
    Stella Rimmington, the real-life "M", says: "Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people's privacy."
  • US ISP Censors Zimbabwean bloggers
    Bluehost removed a prominent Zimbabwean NGO's website, in the belief that they were breaking sanctions against the Zimbabwean government by taking money from Zimbabweans.
  • The Decentralized Censorship of User-Generated Content
    How China outsources its censorship to hosting companies.
  • UK Thinks EU Copyright Term Extension Goes Too Far
    UK disagrees with 95 year copyright extension, which means the fight will continue in the EU's Council of Ministers.
  • UK Anti-Piracy Group Says Music Industry Going Wrong Way
    UK anti-piracy group Federation on Software Theft splits with music industry on government's Digital Britain strategy.
  • Three Strikes not Coming to Germany, says Minister
    German minister feels that "Olivennes" model would not work in his country.

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