The IP&IT lawyer types at IMPACT pride themselves on posting regular content to the blog, and really appreciate the readership that the blog draws. We try to make the content decent quality, and if we fail at that at least we point you to other blogs and information sources where the good stuff is!
This week however things were a little on the quiet side at IMPACT. It was a week of tonnes of client meetings, urgent work, and people getting caught up in the weird weather Britain's having. During the week there were some interesting developments, and we'll be writing about those next week.
In the meantime, here's a few things that caught our attention...
- Those clever internet hacker types (let's call them e-criminals) and the increasingly creative ways they are finding to cause havoc on the internet. The latest trends in internet crme were discussed in a BBC news story. Whilst the methods of causing trouble may be new, that doesn't mean that the e-criminals will get away scot-free.
If the police can catch them, of course. The two methods that the report mentions - adding malicious code to popular websites and diverting P2P traffic to servers in an attempt to crash them - would count as carrying out unauthorised acts on a computer under the recently revised Computer Misuse Act and so lead to a criminal conviction and possibly prison.
- Yet more FaceBook discussion, possibly because lots of us blogging-types use FaceBook. Legal academic Martin George might have thought my first piece on FaceBook was good, but he certainly didn't agree with my views. Far from it, so it seems. I've replied to his comments, and it's all very entertaining. He still hasn't called me a turnip though. Link to Martin George's first post and second post.
- The inability of the publishers of the latest Harry Potter book to keep its contents from leaking, despite their best efforts. Disclosure embargoes and restrictions are less effective in the era of digital distribution and the interweb, or so it seems.
Have a good weekend!
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