1. A Fox on a Fishing Expedition, by Saikat Datta, Outlook
2. Surveillance Self-Defense Toolkit, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
A student-run group at NALSAR University of Law
1. A Fox on a Fishing Expedition, by Saikat Datta, Outlook
2. Surveillance Self-Defense Toolkit, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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In a judgement dated 15th October 2014, the Delhi High Court has decreed, in the case of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. v. M/S Reshma Collection, that if you buy an item in Delhi through online retail, Delhi courts have the jurisdiction to hear disputes in relation to your shopping. This post analyses the reasoning employed in the judgment, and concludes by discussing certain issues brought to the fore by the case, including Forum Shopping, Email contracts, and Online Dispute Resolution.
1. The Right Way to Fix the Internet, George Anders, MIT Technology Review.
2. Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible, Andy Greenberg, WIRED.
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Skype has recently taken the decision to end support for calls to local mobile and landline numbers from its VoIP service, effective from November 10 this year. The Skype support page notes that its decision only applies to calls made within India; users outside Indian borders can continue to call numbers in India, and similarly users in India can continue to call numbers abroad.
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Shaastra, Asia’s largest student run festival, is the annual technical festival of IIT Madras. It is the first ISO 9001:2008 certified student-organized technical festival.
The Internet finds itself in a “web” these days, a web of polarizing powers and conflicting interests; a web that could possibly result in changing the Internet as we know it. Attempting to untangle this web is no mean feat.
The Internet is best defined by the values that formed it. These values are of “open” code or software that govern the Internet, whose source is available to all and can be taken, modified and improved. It is these ideals that many still hope to preserve in today’s Internet governance.
1. Why the Trolls Will Always Win, by Kathy Sierra, Wired.
2. Online Native Ads Are Held To Higher Standards Than Those On TV, by Danielle Wiley TechCrunch.
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Earlier yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg met with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad (who curiously also holds the Ministry of Law and Justice portfolio). The Facebook CEO was in New Delhi on the 9th and 10th of October for the Internet.org summit.
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the TechLawForum@NALSAR Blog has found mention on SpicyIP in its list of “New Online IPR/Media/Tech Resources – For Students, Teachers and Researchers“! The post specifically notes the 101s and the Commons, and also notes the wonderful Teaching and Learning Resources initiative of the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG, NLU-D), along with other resources. (In the interests of full disclosure, we would like to note that SpicyIP’s Editor-in-Chief Swaraj Paul Barooah is the External Advisor of the Blog).