The Internet

In a recent interview, Tim Berners-Lee, answers a series of questions around Internet. Regarding the neutrality of networks, he notably explains:  I refuse any intrusion on my Internet traffic. When I do something, perhaps of very intimate: when somebody searches information to know if he has the cancer, or that a teenager wonders if he is homosexual or not and searches an answer on the net, it must remain private  . And in question  do you Consider the access to Internet to be a basic right?  , the co-inventor of World Wide Web answers:

There are many things which allow to say that it is a right. Yes, it is a right which comes after the water, but to disconnect the whole family would be " an unusual and cruel punishment ", what is unconstitutional in the United States.

On Monday, December 7th, 2009, the guests of This evening or Never (France 3), enlivened by Frederick Taddei, will discuss traps of Internet ,  at the hour  explains us the site of the programme  where Internet traps policies, where many personalities rise against the omnipresence of Google and of Facebook, where the debate on national identity rages on the cloth, the debate on the traps of Internet  . A pretty programme on which will intervene between others Benjamin Bayart (FDN), Frederick Lef bvre, "politician" (dixit the site), Emmanuel Hoog, CEO of INA and Yoram Elkaim, legal Manager of Google.

In its turn, Peter Dunne, member of the New Zealand United Future House of Representatives, of the political party, calls the government to give details on the international negotiations of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). He so declared.

There is a lot of guess-work about the contents of ACTA and what they mean for protection and respect for intellectual property and for copyright here in New Zealand. The veil of secrecy which encircles the contents of agreement ACTA causes a lot of concerns, not only here but also among other implicated nations. He is in the public interest that the government is as transparent as possible on ACTA. A simple disclosure of terms and of text of the negotiations of ACTA would dispel any displaced concern while giving to the New Zealanders the occasion to express the concerns which they can have.

Google has just announced the launching of Google Public DNS, the own service of DNS. Habitually managed by providers and h bergeurs, servers DNS allow to make comply an Internet address (www.theinternets.fr) with an address IP. Read continuation

Yesterday, James Love (Knowledge Ecology International, TACD) tells that, back by air from Geneva to Washington DC, he was next to Ron Kirk, the current American representative in trade (United States Trade Representative). And he spoke. Notably of the secret encircling the agreement of ACTA.

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December 4th, 1995, hardly fourteen years ago, in the pages of the newspaper InfoWorld, Bob Metcalfe, American engineer, and, between others, one of the inventors of Ethernet, predicted that Internet would suffer in 1996 a  catastrophic collapse  . And promised  to eat his words  if it did not come true. A promise that he held in 1997, during SIXTH WWW International Conference. It took a copy printed by its column, blended it with a little liquid, and glou it.
And in April, 1997, he returned on episode with humour:  I wrong we were lucky end The on 1996 gigalapse. Again, I wrong. I ate The column. I sorry. I not worthy. 

The Ministry of Culture published, on Tuesday, December 1st, an (opened) invitation to tender . Extracts:

 From arguments moved forward during examination in front of the Parliament of law Creation and Internet , communication will have to be conceived so as to bring in advance an answer to the campaigns of disinformation which could be thrown.

 It will be necessary to envisage an increasing power of the media coverage of HADOPI. With this effect, the contractor will have to complete following actions successfully.
- Define a plan national and regional media. Organise a press campaign covering the national and regional press. ( ) this press campaign includes no purchase of space.
- Research of sponsors (spokespersons) likely to sensitise the general public in lawful downloading and who could be solicited during the campaign of communication (press conference, blips radio or television, interviews).
- Partnerships: It will be necessary to get media from partnerships (written press and broadcasting, possibly Internet) and to assure the monitoring. 

For the organisation of press conference, HADOPI will assure straight the consultation of the caterers and the financial taking care of the cocktail .

Deadline of reception of offer: on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 6 pm.
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In an article of the today's dated World, on Thursday, December 3rd, and called The industry of the disc wants to spread HADOPI in the rest of the world, they learn that IFPI, the worldwide labour union of the music editors,  its annual report on numerical music for 2009 has just been productive. The daily of evening (taken back since by Expansion), explains that the document raises to it  political leanings and strategical, for 2010, of the industry of the disc, notably the installation of calibrated quick-witted answer.  The point of swing was attained in 2008, when France and the United Kingdom showed the way by asking the providers to help them to control piracy  , brings back the newspaper, naming IFPI.

Except that.
This report has not just gone out.
He dates of January, 2009.

MAJ 04/12/09: The site Free Electron also republished it.
But a reader signalled it to the author, Philippe Astor, who tells him in an article Small failures of information tense flux.

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United in Laval, international experts of offensive computer security devoted themselves to a small competition of deactivation of ant-virus. They had at disposition of computers working under Windows, identical to those of the individuals. The proof of their success: non-detection by the antivirus of a conventional viral attack supposed to be discerned.
Balance sheet: some minutes were enough for deactivating six antiviruses most sold in the world:

- MCAFEE: 1 min 56s
- Norton: 4 min
- GDATA: 5 min
- AVG: 15 min
- NOD32: 33 min
- Kaspersky: 40 min

 The present antiviruses on the market are far too much vulnerable  comment on the site of ESIEA, on engineers' School at the origin of the congress. To note that the organizers find it difficult to persuade the experts to participate in this competition. Only two of forty accepted. The law of 2004 on confidence in numerical economy is too vague on this point A person can be potentially followed if she manages to deactivate an antivirus , , one of the co-organizers of the congress.

On November 20th, ancient minister of Culture Christine Albanel received a letter of the prime minister Fran ois Fillon loading it with a mission on the numeration of books and struggle counters the piracy of contents in edition. Strong in her  "experience"  on HADOPI who led her in some way to be thanked for the government last June she will have to value notably the measures of protection and of dissuasion to be implemented in edition.

Two missions for the same subject? It is the question which settles when they know that mid-October, Frederick Mitterrand entrusted a similar mission to Mark Tessier, former president of France Televisions and current Future managing director of Video. Conclusions of which should be returned some time in December.

The ancient minister  has fought for long weeks to come back in the political arena  explains The Barber. According to the newspaper, it is about a precondition which should lead the ancient minister to take back the reins of the national Library of France (BNF) following Bruno Racine whose mandate ends in April, 2010. And it is just in April when Christine Albanel will have to return her conclusions around three axles: the  sensitisation to the European Commission and European ministers loads with it Culture  ,  the adaptation of the sector of edition to the struggle against piracy of its contents  and development " very fast " of numerical lawful offer in this sector. Political ski jump perhaps, but seen context, the file has nothing of a sinecure.

Affair of racketiciel brought back today by AFUL (French speaker association of the Free Utilisateurs de Logiciels):  A consumer wanted to have the licence reimbursed Windows which he did not like to use. ASUS demands the dismissal of the computer at the expense of the client and persists in this way. The consumer carries affair in justice, and the constructor loses. Accepting this defeat badly, ASUS insists to justice, and loses once again  . Balance sheet, in a second decision of justice, the judge compelled it  to pay additional damages to the consumer for misappropriation of procedure, besides his expenses of procedure. The constructor must reimburse 1405,90 euro to the consumer for a computer paid about 1100 euro.

To read: 1405,90 euro: if known ASUS, ASUS would have come

It is the main research topics which take out again 2009 from Google Zeitgeist France fermented. Entertaining in passage to see the streaming, Twilight and Facebook regrouped in the same category "entertainment" . At worldwide level, Michael Jackson comes in first of  Entertainment having known boom most  and of  Requests having known boom most  (see above).

To read:
- 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: France
- 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Total

Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, intends to come back on .  Divert the usage of a technical system in a creative way, it is to show its bidouillabilit , that step is lawful or not  explain t-il in introduction.  The bidouillabilit , it is possibility for each of participating in the creation of our numerical future. Substantially, preserve the bidouillabilite, it is to make sure that they will have the numerical future which is wished, the one that they would like to sell us. 

On his blog (on Post), Jacques S gu la recommends to the  "cyber-community" to issue his Charter of Rights (and of duties) of the net  . Naming Alain Duhamel (who  reports a machine to fabricate debates  ), the advertising agent describes the net as the space of  mood rumour  and where " tricks  are  thrown to the lions in the  popular condemnation , and  everything shares without proscription  .

 The net is the nicest invention of the com (I take the liberty of judging her only in this domain) and also the most republican. By allowing to all men to communicate between them, ( ) it is the leaven of equality. Freedom stays. That's where the shoe pinches. Freedom exists only if she respects laws, her established rules, public morality, and first of all Other one. 

 And this extraordinary machine to construct the new world has power in her to self-destruct. To let information become desinformation, creation, derision, mood rumour, criticism gossip, the caricature smudge, she will end up losing any credibility. 

 And this other media drift which makes the net, brilliant inventor of communication without borders, without timetable, without barrier, the sad distributor of this weapon of massive disinformation: the soundbite taken out from its context, the soundbite which kills, that he spreads more quickly still that the virus of influenza A.. 

Interviewed in SVM MAC of this month (December, 2009), the film director Matthieu Kassovitz notably comes back on law Creation and Internet. PC INPACT there delivers extracts today. Selection:

In the debate on HADOPI, across the Senate and the National Assembly, industry wanted to get the message: if you love the artists, do not pirate . But it is not the artists who take full the face. They lose little, but they remain very well paid. HADOPI protects only industry.

There are films which do not pirate. This would have no interest to see Mishap without relief. The films of Jaoui and Bacri are not either concerned: they contact a public who does not pirate. And finally, blockbusters as Spiderman do not live any more on entries in rooms, but on the sale of derivative products. As soon as a film is amortised, it should become free. Instead of making suppression, offer should be improved and to make it accessible to all. .

If you make a leader - of work, he will be pirated, but the public will go nevertheless to see him in room .

To read: Mathieu Kassovitz: HADOPI protects only industry

 The gays and the lesbians would they be more and more reduced to silence on Internet?  Rapha lle Santini, on the site Yagg wonders. Indeed, impossible for the employees of FRENCH ELECTRICITY COMPANY, of Telecommunications France and of the FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY or for the users of the wifi in some public places to achieve some sites gays or lesbian  . According to Cyril Bauchais, president of Mobilisnoo, the LGBT association of telecommunications / orange France: the administration makes a real amalgam between homosexuality and pornography . For his/her part, the author thinks that beyond this amalgam it is  the wave of worldwide filtration  and  general tendency that wants to reduce the sphere of the private on the workplace which frightens. 

To read:  Filtration on the net: homosexuality victim of cyber-censure?