Rather surprisingly, the Canadian Copyright Board has decided to freeze blank media levies until the end of 2004. The Globe and Mail quotes Claude Majeau, Secretary General of the board as saying:
"The board majority found that, based on the available evidence, increasing existing levy rates ... was not justified at this time ... and [...]
Tags: · Canada, Computers, Freedom, Government, Hardware, Law, Music, Networking, Technology
I ran across this tremendously interesting website (via Hacktivismo) that has cataloged a conspicuous change in the White House website during the last few months. It seems that...:
"Sometime between April 2003 and October 2003, someone at the White House added virtually all of the directories with "Iraq" in them to its robots.txt file, meaning [...]
Tags: · Censorship, Civil Liberties, Computers, Foreign Policy, Freedom, Government, Information Security, Internet, Media, Networking, Politics, Security, System Administration
Anyone that has a top-level domain registered through ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) should be aware of the shady advertising scheme that VeriSign is trying to pull off.
"VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .com and .net TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 64.94.110.11, which reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com. What [...]
Tags: · Community, Computers, Internet, Networking, System Administration, Technology