http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:40:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The latest case brought by rightsholders under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 has found that bittorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay does infringe copyright according to the Act. Following this decision it seems likely that rightsholders will seek injunctions under s97A of the Act requiring ISPs to “block” ... http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments/2012/02/21/copyright-blocking-recent-uk-cases/ The Information Commissioner’s latest guidance on cookies contains some good news for anyone trying to work out how to make a host of internal websites compliant: How do these rules apply to intranets? In our view the rules do not apply in the same way to intranets. (Note however that if Intranet ... http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments/2012/02/21/cookies-and-intranets/ I've had three discussions in two days about whether Government CERTs are different from others, which makes it a FAQ! It seems to me that legislation may be heading that way, and that that could create a potential problem for sharing information. Most CERTs act in the interests of a particular, ... http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments/2012/02/20/government-certs-and-information-sharing/ After ruling last year on the balance between the rights of copyright holders, users and network providers, the European Court of Justice has now ruled on the same question applied to the case of a hosting provider, the social network Netlog. As in the earlier Scarlett case, the copyright collecting ... http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments/2012/02/16/ecj-on-copyright-injunctions-hosting-providers/ The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has published a report on Malware, which recommends increased awareness among Internet users as the best way to deal with the problem. There’s a welcome recognition that “it is clear that there is no easy technological answer to cyber crime... hardware solutions are ... http://webmedia.company.ja.net/edlabblogs/regulatory-developments/2012/02/06/commons-committee-awareness-raising-to-deal-with-malware/