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Tuesday, 10. September 2002

Digital Demonstrations again.

Hacktivism.ca has a snippet on my "H2K2" presentation "on virtual sit-ins" and a link to an article "What is the Borderline Between Criminality and Civil Disobedience in the Net?" by Marco Cappato (MEP) who is pushing the EU to be careful not to criminalize creative political expression on the Internet. See also his report on the subject.
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Konferenz zu Informationsfreiheit, Kontrolle von Inhalten und Zensur im Internet

Der eco macht mit dem "CCC" die gleiche Konferenz, wie die LfM einen Tag später. Am Wochenende davor gibt's was ähnliches von der Naumann Stiftung. Es geht rund im Rheinland!

"IMGccc" Anscheinend hat der Spass keine Webseite, daher hier die Mail:

Liebe eco Interessenten, liebe Mitglieder,

nachfolgend mûchten wir Sie auf eime Veranstaltung des CCC (unter Beteiligung von eco) am 16.09.2002 in Düsseldorf aufmerksam machen. ºber Ihre rege Teilnahme würden wir uns freuen!

Konferenz zu Informationsfreiheit, Kontrolle von Inhalten und Zensur im Internet -Eine Veranstaltung des Chaos Computer Club e.V., Montag 16.09.2002 Düsseldorf, Forum im Finanzkaufhaus

10:00 - 10:45 Inhaltliche Kontrolle des Internets über das Domain Name System, Referent: Andy Müller-Maguhn, Sprecher Chaos Computer Club e.V., Benutzergewählter Direktor für Europa, ICANN, http://www.ccc.de/~andy/

10:45 - 11:30 Insert Coin - Manipulation von Internet-Inhalten als Experiment Alvar Freude, Betreiber ODEM.ORG http://www.odem.org/

11:30 - 11:45 Kaffeepause

11:45 - 12:15 (working title), Internetfreedom in France after the "yahoo" court decision, Meryem Marzouki http://asim.lip6.fr/~marzouki/perso/index.gb.html

12:15 - 13:00 Internet-Zensur in Nordrhein-Westfälen, Bûssow gefährdet die Informationssphäre (Arbeitstitel), Referenten: Jens Ohlig, Sprecher Chaos Computer Club e.V, Lars Weiler, Chaosdorf Düsseldorf e.V. http://www.ccc.de/censorship/

13:15 - 14:30 Mittagspause, (gesondert angekündigt: Pressekonferenz um 13:30 - 13:50)

14:30 - 15:15 Die Internet-Zensur in NRW aus Providersicht, Referenten: Harald A. Summa, eco Forum e.V. , http://www.eco.de/ , sowie vorr. ein Vertreter eines betroffenen ISP

15:15 - 15:30 Kaffeepause

15:30 - 16:15 Verpflichtet die deutsche Gestzeslage Internet-Service Provider, inhaltliche Angebote des Netzes zu sperren? Europäische Rechtsanwältin Dr. Irini E. Vassilaki, Universität Gûttingen

16:15 - 16:30 Kaffeepause

16:30 - 17:00 Gesellschaftlicher Umgang mit extremen Inhalten im, Internet , Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, Harald A. Summa, Irini Vassilaki, Andy Müller-Maguhn

ca. 17:00 Ende der Veranstaltung

Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Forum im Finanzkaufhauses Düsseldorf, Bilker Alle (Hausnummer befindet sich noch in der Ermittlung)

Eine Anfahrtsbeschreibung gibt es unter http://www.forum-duesseldorf.com/forum_duesseldorf_anfahrt.htm

Mit freundlichen Grü¤en ...
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Berman-Coble: an exercise in the cyber-law-definition jungle.

Maybe I should start the freedom to tinker comment weblog. Edward Felten is again poking arround in the Berman-Coble bill inviting me to get back to my favorite rants. Felten now looks Part B of the p2p Definition in the bill, which says somethong like this:

'peer to peer file trading network' means two or more computers which are connected by computer software that--
(A) [is designed to support file sharing]; and
(B) does not permanently route all file or data inquiries or searches through a designated, central computer located in the United States;

Felten argues that no significant centralized system would use a single server but for load balancing reasons a cluster of many machines. He is right, but before talking about this we must find out what constitutes a computer. A single CPU? So a IBM zSeries Machine would be more than a single computer. Processing units in a single Case? No, my Siemens MX-300 comes in two cases. As a working thesis I would define a computer in the context of this bill should be defined as "closely coupeled computing resources under single administrative control". While we might argue if two webservers behind a load balancer are "closely coupeled" stuff like the AIM servers could be subsumed under this term for computer if one really wants to.

Just for the record: This restriction to central servers in the US strange, too. Th US government might create laws which forces citizens of their nation to endure attacks by the RIAA. But they can't to that to foreigeners not on their soil. In fact if the US government encourages private eintities from the US to attack people in other countries, this might be considered an attack carried out by the US government - which might considered as act of war.

Germany should not pick on the US for this: When the german minister for interior affairs realized that he couldn't sue away german Nazi pages on US servers he declared in an interview that this servers should be hacked by german law enforcement to get rid of the Nazi hate pages.
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Hacking Trackback into Radio II

My Trackback attempts are continuing. Seems David Watson likes the stuff. He points out Trackback and Radio are a political issue

There are to be several implementations for sending pings (see this tutorial, too). But I want the pings to be send automagically. There is much talk about it but no code/a>.

So I hacked a Python script which connects to radio via the Meta Weblog XML-RPC API, iterates through the latest posts, gets all the liks in each posts, downloads the pages referenced by this links, extracts traceback-RDF information, compares them with if they match the links we were expecting and if so sends out the trachback pings. I will give this thing a test run for one or two more days to be sure it does not break the internet or something like this and then post it here.
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