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  • On the post: Dutch Government Supports Encryption, Opposes Backdoors

    Éibhear ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 04:29am

    Good move, economic sense

    If the US and UK governments proceed with their plans to interfere with encryption, any companies developing encryption software will be forced to relocate or comply.

    The Netherlands is now a viable location to move to if "comply" is not an option.

    Jobs.

  • On the post: 'There Is No Human Right To Patent Protection' — UN Special Rapporteur

    Éibhear ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2015 @ 04:50am

    EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 17.2

    Article 17 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights covers a right to property, with paragraph 2 saying:

    "Intellectual property shall be protected."

    On both occasions Ireland had to vote on the matter with the Lisbon Treaty, I urged people to vote for it primarily because of the Charter. However, Article 17.2 has always felt wrong.

    It's bullshit.

    And Ms. Shaheed's report shows how that is the case.

    I wonder when the CJEU will be presented with a case that conflicts article 17.2 with some other right in the charter; it would be interesting to see how the conflict is resolved. Probably won't be pretty.

  • On the post: Jamaican Government Steals Years Of Public Domain Works From Its People

    Éibhear ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2015 @ 06:59am

    Perpetual copyright

    I wonder what country will be the first to pass a law making copyright a perpetual thing.

    Must see if Paddy Power is giving odds...

  • On the post: Insanity Rules In Ireland: Media Ordered Not To Report On Parliamentary Speech

    Éibhear ( profile ), 29 May, 2015 @ 03:58pm

    Sequence of events

    O Brien secured the injunction to prevent the national broadcaster, RTÉ, from broadcasting a story -- probably with those same details. Ms Murphy's comments were made in the Dáil (the Irish lower parliamentary house) yesterday. *After* the junction was granted. *And* her comments are granted privileged in our constitution.

    O Brien's lawyers say the injunction pre-empted the reporting of comments made under privilege. However, the injunction's judgement hasn't been issued yet, so we don't know.

    Also, the *official* report of the comments is privileged under the constitution, and they are available on the official record's website: http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2015052800027

    Whatever about the Streisand Effect, his lawyers need to be sacked for letting him think this information can be made unknown again.