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(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/kvjYDJ) 3D printing is currently one of the biggest buzzwords in technologically inclined circles. And yet grand format flatbed printers and other printers, it is not in and of itself a new technology, and has been in existence since 1984. The current increase in its popularity is because it is only now becoming…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e5wZ3t) The following is a post by Aman Gupta, a fourth year student at NUJS, covering the fifth panel of the Law Commission’s Media Law Consultation. Aman is currently the Director of the NUJS Society of International Law and Policy, and his areas of interest include Sports Law and Media Law. This post brings forward some…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/5V1h4R) The following is a post on the recent disconnection of mobile internet, bulk SMS and bulk MMS services by the government in Vadodara in light of social unrest and riots. It’s a bit of a long post, and therefore has been divided into sections – the first part details the factual background of…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/4LPBEm) (The author would like to thank Swaraj Paul Barooah for his valuable insights.) Let me begin by putting forward a basic question – when was the last time you actually paid to download a song? And trust me, you deserve a pat if your answer is anywhere within the last two years. In…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/9RovZB) This is the first in a two-part post on the Right to be Forgotten. This post is part of our 101 series of posts, which seek to explain the issue at hand, and the next post shall address the issue and the debate surrounding it in more detail. In 2010, a Spanish citizen filed a complaint…
The following are some of the interesting articles that our editors have found this week on the Internet. 1. The Solace of Oblivion, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker. 2. The Soul of the Censor, Robert Darnton, the New York Review of Books. 3. The Hidden World of Facebook ‘Like Farms’, MIT Technology Review. 4. Pirate Favorites…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/hzrA2W) The following is a post by Shashank Singh, a third year student at NUJS, covering the first panel of the Law Commission’s ongoing Media Law Consultation, Self-Regulation v. Structural Regulation. Shashank currently serves as Associate Editor for the NUJS Law Review, and his areas of interest include Constitutional Law, Media Law and IPR. The Law…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/mjhubJ) Recently in our class on the Law of Evidence, the discussion turned to the security of email accounts, specifically Gmail. Our teacher asked a general question, about how easy it would be for a person to hack a Gmail account, on a scale of 0 (extremely difficult) to 5(extremely easy). There was…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e9LG7B) (This post is based in part on a paper earlier published by Rostrum Law Review) This post first explains the Bitcoin Network itself and some of its vulnerabilities, and then the cyptography used by Bitcoins that gives it the title of Cryptocurrency.
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e9LG7B) (This post is based in part on a paper published by Rostrum Law Review) Most of the currencies in the world right now, and all the reserve currencies, are fiat currencies, declared to be currencies by a legal tender, and unsupported by any physical commodity, only the rules of supply and demand (Incidentally, the term ‘fiat’…