There seems to be “all-round support for the internet as a civil right” if we are to believe the Times, and we have no reason not to. Lawyer Antonio Ghio described it as “the legal crystallisation of a reality we live in”, which is an interesting statement for many a...
What laws would you ...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
One of the interesting spin-offs of the ACTA controversy is the newly discovered devotion that national representatives have towards what they deem to be “public opinion”. There are undoubtedly a number of factors that have precipitated this state of affairs. Primary among...
Fighting the law and...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Saturday saw 500 or more (mostly) young people don their Anonymous masks and demonstrate their general anti-ism against ACTA and the international conspiracy of (as Edward Scicluna would have it) the monsters behind it. The interviews posted on the Times of Malta (see video on link) website...
Perspectives on ACTA...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Andrei continues his reasoned analysis of ACTA, concluding that though it is not evil it must be rejected anyway. ACTA is not evil : It must be rejected anyway – Part II In Part I, I described why ACTA is not the intrinsically evil entity that people think it is. In fact, it is a...
Perspectives on ACTA...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
The J’accuse impromptu ACTA series continues. I knew that when I asked (provoked?) fellow blogger Andrei for his ideas on ACTA that I would not be short-changed. Based in Estonia Andrei describes himself as a “technical writer, freelance translator, standup comedian, occasional...