The Irish law blog Cearta.ie is offline this morning after its owner, Dr. Eoin O’Dell of Trinity College, shut it down in response to a decision regarding its academic value. Responding to queries from his followers on Twitter this morning, Dr. O’Dell explained that he had shut down his blog because the Head of […]
The final report of the independent Copyright Review Committee has just been published. The report is aimed at identifying barriers for innovation in the digital environment, and developing proposals for reducing them in order to provide greater support for growth and jobs in the digital industry. The publication has been welcomed by the Minister for […]
Anonymous have seemingly launched an attack targetting Irish government websites including revenue.ie. Previous Anonymous actions against Ireland took place during the controversy surrounding copyright legislation in early 2012. At the time and again now, the action was referred to as “OpIreland” They published a press release via Youtube to inform the Irish government of what […]
The Irish ISP association (hotline.ie) wrote to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation last month about the newspaper copyright debacle. They finally got a “reply” but it doesn’t really address their concerns- if anything it just punts the issue to the copyright review. You can download the hotline.ie’s original letter here and the […]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 55 for January 11th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Newspaper link debacle update. Plus – the backlash against twitterphobia! Blacknight launches WhoOwns.it. Google might escape the FTC but EU’s gunning for them now. (Flashback to Google ubiquity in 2006). EU is also concerned about how companies are […]
Wendy Seltzer gives a fascinating, albeit quick, overview of 2012 from the Chilling Effects perspective. Chilling Effects aggregates takedown notices from copyright holders under the US DMCA as well as other laws in other jurisdictions. The numbers for 2012 are staggering. Over 53 million takedowns versus three million in 2011! The talk is just over […]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 54 for January 4th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. New Year’s Eve mobile networks didn’t fall over – why? Because people are using alternatives. Whatsapp did 18 billion messages on NYE – they’re doing about 7 billion / day normally Ubuntu making a play in mobile? Mark […]
Search engine giant Google has announced a change to how it treats certain types of sites in search results. In a blog post the company announced that sites with a large number of copyright claims against them would be penalised: Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: […]
This week’s guest is Francesco Cetraro of Afilias. From their headquarters in Dublin, Afilias run top level domains such as .info and .mobi and also provide the GoMobi mobile website builder tools (currently available on a 30-day free trial from Blacknight!) For this podcast, Francesco joins us from his home in Sweden, with Michele in Carlow […]
Recently the victim of a burglary, Michele puts a brave face on things as he Skypes Conn this week from an aged laptop. We discuss April Fool tech gags, including Google Maps with 8-bit graphics and get nostalgic for simpler times. Nowadays we’ve got hundreds of times more computing power in our pockets. What would […]
