Editor’s Note: In a longer read, Viraj Ananth explains how the existing regime of regulations for Cryptocurrency Mining Pools is inadequate. Viraj Ananth is a third-year student at NLSIU. He currently serves as the Deputy Chief Editor of the Indian Journal of Law and Technology and is the Founding Editor of The Boardroom Lawyer. He…
Category: 101s
Net Neutrality And Economics 101 (Part II)
In Part I, I attempted to provide an overview of the ISP market structure, market players and associated economic phenomena. In Part II, we will be discussing the more specific topic of Net Neutrality and its intersection with economics. Please note that over the course of the ensuing write-up, I have referred to two kinds…
YouTube and Censorship
One of the most discussed topics in the world today is how much we can trust the sources of news around us. Fake news seems to be running rampant and it is obvious that we have to evaluate how much faith to put in what we read. That being said, the situation becomes considerably worse…
Regulation of Artificial Intelligence : The Way Ahead
The “employee” at JP Morgan called COIN, “recruited” in June 2017, is highly efficient to say the least. It does work that earlier took 3,60,000 hours in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, in a few developed countries ghost cars that are programmed to “drive themselves”, that is, driverless cars, are hitting the roads. On the…
Law Enforcement v. End-to-End Encryption
The age of digital communications with all its power to reach people instantly, anywhere on the globe, still has shortcomings. The instant communications happening all around us through laptops or mobiles involve two crucial processes i.e. encryption and decryption. These two processes are fundamental to the transfer of our voice and messages to the designated…
Fake News and Its Follies
Fake news may seem to be very innocuous and in fact might not seem to cause much harm to anyone or have any real-world consequences. Fake news is a phenomenon where a few individuals, sites and online portals create or/and share pieces of information either completely false or cherry-picked from real incidents with the intention…
PAYMENT BANKS: AN OUTLINE
Ed. Note: This post by Vishal Rackecha is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. One of the greatest problems for the Indian Economy faces today is the problem of financial inclusion and the lack of credit in rural areas and for micro industries. In 2013, the Reserve Bank released a paper based…
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Ed. Note: This post by Kaustub Bhati is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Have you ever seen a Paralympic athlete run and wondered how is he doing that? The answer to that query is assistive technology. Assistive Technology is basically an umbrella term, used for any software or hardware designed to…
YouTube’s Copyright Policy – An Explanation
Ed. Note: This post by Ashwin Murthy is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Digital media has become the norm of the modern world and in the field no website is as dominant as YouTube. YouTube, currently a Google subsidiary, controls the market when it comes to video sharing, outpacing the other…
Rights of persons with disability and Copyright
Ed. Note.: This post, by Benjamin Vanlalvena, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. How are disabled persons affected by Copyright Law? The onset of the digital era has brought in an ease of access for persons with disabilities greater access to resources earlier not available not to them through…