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ISOC ISP Column: #IPv6 penetration reaches 5%
In the April 2010 edition of Geoff Huston’s ISOC ISP Column he reports that the extent of full end-to-end IPv6 capability in today’s Internet is now at a level of 5% of all end systems. This number is now at a level where IPv6 deployment is now passing from mere statistical interest to mainstream commercial importance.
Figure 32. IPv6 / IPv4 Web Access Ratio“INTERNET ADDRESSING: MEASURING DEPLOYMENT OF IPv6.” OECD, April 2010
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Digital Due Process Coalition demands reform of ePrivacy statutes
The Digital Due Process Coalition brings to gether such unlikely bedfellows as CDT, Google, AT&T, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and the ACLU, along with some lawyers that ISOC-NY webcast viewers will be well familiar with like Susan Crawford, James Grimmelmann, Frank Pasquale, & David Post, united in the purpose of advocating reform of The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986.The ECPA is the statute under which the federal government can snoop into your email, and enforce co-operation in its efforts from ISPs. The move to cloud computing has nullified many of the protections in the act, and providers are facing increasing demands for access from law enforcement. The DDPC is demanding an overhaul of the statute, and a return to due process = warrants before they hand over users missives.
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GAO reports “positive economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy” !
CNET’s Greg Sandoval notes that a new Government Accountability Office report: Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods suggests that figures often cited by the film and music industries to represent losses due to piracy and illegal copying cannot be substantiated, and ignore the positive economic impacts of same.
The accountability office even noted the existence of data that shows piracy may benefit consumers in some cases.
“Some experts we interviewed and literature we reviewed identified potential positive economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy,” The GAO wrote. “Some consumers may knowingly purchase a counterfeit or pirated product because it is less expensive than the genuine good or because the genuine good is unavailable, and they may experience positive effects from such purchases.”
“Consumers may use pirated goods to ‘sample’ music, movies, software, or electronic games before purchasing legitimate copies,” the GAO continued. “(This) may lead to increased sales of legitimate goods.”
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..experts disagree over the potential impacts of piracy on jobs. One leader in the field told the GAO that piracy kills jobs, while another said “any effects are unclear” because job loss in one sector may result in a “rise in other industries as workers are hired to produce counterfeits.”
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“Art of the Long View” interview with Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg (video)
April 8, 2010: In the second event of the Annenberg “Art of the Long View” series, communication professor Jonathan Taplin discusses the future of communication with Verizon CEO and chairman of the board Ivan Seidenberg.
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Mobile App Legal Concerns Panel – New York Law School 4/20
Ever since the Apple launched the App Store on the iPhone, people have been crazy about mobile apps. As a result, apps are now widely available on the Android, Blackberry, and many other mobile phone platforms. A developer must consider issues concerning contract law, intellectual property protection, corporate law and user privacy when creating a new app. This panel will discuss the legal concerns that every mobile app developer should consider before bringing a new app to market.Moderator: Jonathan Lutzky, Esq., Masur LawRoom: W201 6-8pm, Event begins at 6:30, Tuesday 4/20Panelists: Simon Buckingham, Mobile Streams AppitalismDan Cohen, DaDa Mobile and Playme.comHugh Dornbush, omgicuKunal Gupta, Polar MobileRSVP to Brian Daitzman: brian.daitzman@law.nyls.edu -
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Grand Theft Internet – the tale of a domain hijack
Like any other small businessman, he assumed his Internet account was basically safe. Instead, he found himself another victim of the latest 21’st century crime wave, when his valuable domain name, VL.com, was hijacked in a high-tech heist. Told by a first-person witness to the crime, reconstructed from forensic evidence compiled in the aftermath, this gripping account takes you inside the mind of the attacker, showing in lay terms how domain thiefs bypass security at Internet registrars, and why domain name theft is a growing problem on the Internet that could strike any of us.
Read the story: Grand Theft Internet .
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Seven on Seven – Art & Technology event – NYC 4/17
On Saturday April 17 Rhizome presents Seven on Seven, a new initiative connecting art and new technology.
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum.
Seven on Seven technologists are Ayah Bdeir, David Karp, Jeff Hammerbacher, Andrew Kortina, Hilary Mason, Matt Mullenweg and Joshua Schachter.
Seven on Seven artists are Tauba Auerbach, Cao Fei, Aaron Koblin, Monica Narula, Marc Andre Robinson, Evan Roth, and Ryan Trecartin.
Seven on Seven Schedule on April 17, 2010
Opening Remarks: 2:30pm
Presentations: 3-6:30pm
Cocktail Reception in New Museum Skyroom: 6:30-8:30pm
Tickets $350 (Students $75) via Eventbrite.
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IP Events @ Cardozo Tuesday 4/13
The LexisNexis-Cardozo Intellectual Property Rights Symposium: International Copyright, the Modern Library of Alexandria, and Other Digital DreamsTuesday, April 13th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM, Moot Court RoomProfessor Graeme B. Dinwoodie from University of Oxford, will address the proposed Google Books settlement and its objections.The lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a reception to follow in the lobby.NYCInfoLaw Reading Group: International Internet RegulationTuesday April 13, @ 7PM, Room 211, Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Ave.The Internet’s global scale means that there are as many different approaches to regulating it as there are countries. Recent disputes over privacy in Italy, censorship in China and discord over ACTA provisions have highlighted these tensions. Can we ensure that the Internet remains a reliable global tool without compromising the differing values of participating countries?Readings (choose one or more from each category):- Italy Privacy case:
CNN Reports
NPR’s Story
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s take
- Google Closing in China:
Wall Street Jornal
AP
- Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Global Internet Freedom:
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=4437
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/03/02/global-internet-freedom-via-government-regulation/
Both events are free and open to the public.
The Cardozo School of Law is at 55 5th Avenue NYC (bet 12th & 13th St)
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