Copyright infringement an unmitigated evil? Always?

It’s worth reading the latest piece of the Digital Britain report, which asks ‘what role for a Digital Rights Agency?’. Now the report does claim to be setting up a straw-man Rights Agency to spur discussion – but that seems to me more of a tactic by which they can ignore any real criticism, a [...]

Software has no borders

Tom Watson MP tweeted to congratulate us on the Rewired State event last Saturday: “want to see British talent? Look at the list of projects created at Rewired State. Simply extraordinary. Thanks all.” I felt a bit uncomfortable about the ‘British talent’ remark, and at first I wasn’t sure why it affected me so. On [...]