ARIN6902 Internet Cultures and Governance

my blog entry about the Internet may re-structure the society.

Almost everyone has an online identity in several different sites, in ordering to make our life "easier" we can now do lots of things from the internet. but how safe is this realm? Our online identity may be easily stolen than what we expected.

We've talked about the ip address in first half of the semeseter, IPv6 summit meeting at 19, May pointed out the essential need for IPv6 and the possible issue afterwards.

NIck Xenophon spruiking his Private Senator's Bill on The Punch today, which would make it illegal for an adult to misrepresent their age while communicating with a minor online.

It is a trend after launched of ipad in US, more than 100 local pubclishers have signed up to supply ebooks to ebook store which opereates the Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson book chains. "Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon." when things like this happen how do we draw a line between those with copyright and those without?

The Australian Government under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has released a draft Form of a new copyright protection/regulation which affects the internet providers to be under a more strict copyright laws.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), organization that supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies has won over a lawsuit against Limewire (a free peer-to-peer file sharing that shares almost everything;Mp3,Videos,Ebooks, softwares etc). This case was first brought up to the court in 2006

This Pdf file booklet would benefit those who are working their essays on Copyright and other infringement issues as it is intended to provide to all who are concerned with the creation, circulation and transfer of knowledge replies to certain questions they may have on the subject of copyright. It has no other objective than to clarify a complicated subject by translating legal language into language that can be easily understood by everyone. This booklet is published by Unesco Courtesy goes to Sandra Rivera. Gracias

Brown, a guy who witnessed the filming of Transformer 3 and straight away shoved out his iphone to record 3 minutes length video. He later then uploaded the Clip on youtube which has now caused some commotion with the studio.

Diana Gabaldon recently lit up certain areas of the blogosphere with a post ranting against fanfiction writers. In particular, she stated her displeasure at people writing fanfiction about her books. Her reasons basically boiled down to the fact that she considered fanfiction as stealing her work. She described it as 'immoral'. The main response to her post was negative - there was several posts made in response, not to mention the responses on the post itself. I've posted one here - by an author who got her start writing Harry Potter fanfic. I can't post the original Gabaldon post, or her follow-up post - she's taken them down. The issue really highlighted the changing use of copyrighted material on the internet, and how that use is at odds with the current view of copyright.

"Information wants to be free" (IWTBF hereafter) is half of Stewart Brand's famous aphorism, first uttered at the Hackers Conference in Marin County, California (where else?), in 1984: "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

A survey done to see how online piracy has affected the revevue of publisher. approximately 3 billion was the answer.

Before it was google book and now with the popularity of ipad and all the other ebook devices rised the ebook piracy issue. Now with almost the same format, ePub downloading and file sharing become easier.

So, in the end it is not Hugo!!! It is 200 Hugos!

The popularity of ipad has raised book piracy issue. Since dowloading books is relatively fast than downloading a movie or a song, publishers are seriously facing a problem of online piracy.

An interesting article about virtual reality games being used in health care. It's good to see that interactivity in games helps patients in their recovery process.

"More than quarter of British kids say Facebook more important than family" this is actually really sad... some pretty alarming stats, particularly sad, "Kids living in single parent homes with just their mother found Facebook their most important influence, with 62 per cent ranking it their main influence" on the other side of the fence, survey shows "less than a quarter of parents thought technology impacted their children's lives". Maybe they should become their friend on FB...

"The ultimate iPad - for $200,000" so, this is really nuts, but kind of funny so thought I would share. Available in the UK, encrusted with 25.5 carats of flawless diamonds, 53 of the gems "dwell beautifully in their solid 22ct Apple logo". Have just placed my order...better hurry, only 10 available.

"Google sees 'everything'"\nLooks at cloud computing, benefits, and risks to security. Interesting point around search practices with Google "..everybody is constantly asking Google about the things they're working on. In effect, we're putting a tremendous amount of faith in Larry and Sergey and their claim that they don't do evil".

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