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Comment on My Blog: Your web activity is being tracked! Some simple ways I employ to stop being tracked. So, enlarge the ’0,1% who knows’. by Guesswho

Guesswho — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:06:43 +0000

In addition to yours, I also use:
USING GOOGLE WITHOUT BEING TRACKED BY GOOGLE: https://startpage.com/ (SIMILAR TO DUCKDUCK BUT MIGHT BE BETTER)
SECURING CONNECTIONS WITH OPENDNS CRYPT: https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/
chrome extensions:
HEADER HACKER, M86 SECURITY, ADBLOCK+, COOKIES, EDIT THIS COOKIE, FACEOOK ADBLOCK, FORGET ME, GEO LOCATION, IP GEOLOCATOR, KB SSL ENFORCER AND BROWSER BUTTON, MANUAL GEOLOCATION, NORTON IDENTITY PROTECTION, PASSWORDFAIL EXTENSION, PROXY2K, REDIRECTOR, REFERER CONTROL, SAFE & SECURE BROWSING SSL MODE, SAFE ID, SCRIPTNO, CREDIT CARD NANNY, DNNSEC VALIDATOR, SERVER IP, BITDEFENDER TRAFFICLIGHT, ULTIMATE USER AGENT SWITCHER AND URL SNIFFER.
I’m even more paranoid than you.
Is never enough, BTW.

Comment on La Quadrature Du Net’s “A Strategy Looking Through ACTA and Beyond” lacks outside-the-box vision. by yt75

yt75 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:35:54 +0000

Hello,
For “la quadrature”, “free internet” means “free content”(in the sense cost and not freedom, or let’s say in both senses), or with a “global licence”(in the sense tax and not licence/IP rights for some work independantly of machines, editors, etc) to fund authors and creators, or some form of “global sponsorship” “mecenat global” à la Richard Stallman.
Clearly not what I would favor, for me the top priorities should be :
- freedom of expression (no censorship for original work)
- Privacy : and this means not setting up a system relying on some form of global monitoring for it to function (regarding revenues redistribution in particular), but it also means that one private “bookshelf”(list of content free or not bought by an individual) should truly be private.
- content quality (and current content on the web for instance very far from what it could potentially be)
- keeping direct authors/public relationship and leaving to the authors the decision on how and at what price they want to publish their work
- ease of use : not having to deal with files all over the place, ability to constitute oneself a “bookshelf”(disco video shelf), not inherently linked to some tech giant (apple, amz, google, etc)

And for this what is truly lacking is the definition of a new role and role separation :
- one one side “private licence account managers” organisations : holding all content licences for an individual (or group possible also)
- on the other side creators/editors/shops/content holders
A bit more developed below :
http://iiscn.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/concepts-economie-numerique-draft/
And check for instance video at the bottom regarding google play, which basically is setting up such an environment in a monopolistic fashion.

Today everything is somehow “muddied around” with technical buzzwords such as “cloud” and the like which in a way forbid to adress the true questions, which are more related to actors and structure among them.
The switch that is necessary is to move from “files and copies mindset” towards “licence mindset”, or in other words “if I have bought this thing, I can access it and I don’t deal with files”.
This requires the role separation to be clearly defined, as much and — before– technical aspects.

Comment on Karel De Gucht 1st Exchange of Views about #ACTA at #INTA 29th Feb 2012 by My Blog: Increased risk of #Extradition via #ACTA Harsh Interpretation and Implementation would make it easier. | awbmaven

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:37:11 +0000

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Comment on Karel De Gucht 1st Exchange of Views about #ACTA at #INTA 29th Feb 2012 by kev

kev — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:40:26 +0000

i suppose that if you tell yourself a lie enough times, you end up believing it and hope that others you tell will do the same. Karel De Gucht knows full well that there has been basically no ‘transparency’ and certainly no input from the public (or their representatives) who will be affected drastically by ACTA. he is obviously far more interested in getting ACTA passed into law than admitting to the consequences. once it is signed, there will be little, if any, option for individual countries to amend their own IP laws and the redress the entertainment industries will be taking will, in no way, be anything other than the most severe it can dream up. i think the thing that worries me more than anything else is, what right does one particular industry have to get complete control of a world wide used platform that is available to millions of people, when it will do nothing other than allow that industry to keep it’s outdated business model alive rather than adapting to the digital society, remove as many fundamental human rights as possible, eg, guilty unless able to prove innocence, and stifle innovation for multiple other businesses? there has to be some serious back-handers being put out!

Comment on My Blog: My observations of the #ACTA related #INTA meetings today, 28 Feb 2012 by awbmaven

awbmaven — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:22:36 +0000

Granted, there was not much evidence presented for it, mainly that European IP is Europes raw materials (and there are strong grounds that Europe does indeed have strong IP).

‘Traditionally’ raw materials were such things as coal, ore, lumber, etc, but as we don’t manufacture much any more (speaking from a UK perspective, I guess your coming from a German perspective? which is very difference?).

Europe is now (ime) a services society rather than manufacturing society; consumer rather than maker. For services, the raw materials could arguably be IP.

That being the case, I don’t think the argument fell over, merely wobbled, depending on your point of view.

Comment on My Blog: My observations of the #ACTA related #INTA meetings today, 28 Feb 2012 by arebentisch

arebentisch — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:02:42 +0000

The “raw material” argument is an emotional argument without much evidence. Raw material is what our societies traditionally import.

Comment on My Blog: BRPF’s – #Belligerent #Radicalized #Proselytizing #Fundamentalist, the enemy of #Humanity #BRPF by My Blog: My observations of the #ACTA related #INTA meetings today, 28 Feb 2012 | awbmaven

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:16:38 +0000

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Comment on Is ‘Safe Harbour’, safe? Does it meet all #EU #acquis (EU laws)? Does, for instance, #Facebook? by My Blog: EU-US Passenger Data Agreement (PNR), trans-national EU data transfers. | awbmaven

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:51:17 +0000

[...] 3. Is ‘Safe Harbour’, safe? Does it meet all #EU #acquis (EU laws)? Does, for instance, #Facebook?: http://awbmaven.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/is-safe-harbour-safe-does-it-meet-all-eu-acquis-eu-laws-doe… [...]

Comment on The EU’s Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive + Regulation re. personal information and data. cc #ACTA by My Blog: EU-US Passenger Data Agreement (PNR), trans-national EU data transfers. | awbmaven

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:51:14 +0000

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Comment on #ACTA statement by @VivianeRedingEU with my immediate observations including questions cc @RalfGrahn @FFII @EDRi_org by My Blog: EU-US Passenger Data Agreement (PNR), trans-national EU data transfers. | awbmaven

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:51:10 +0000

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