Cav's Place

In their misguided fight against what they (as well as other governments and obviously those in the industry) wrongly call piracy, the French government has yet another plan, and this time they want to make it appear nice: People will be able to buy a card worth €50 for only €25, then use it to […]

Google pulled out of China because it refuses to keep censoring its search results and I think that move deserves some praise and support. Certainly not nearly as much praise and support as, say, seriously working towards improving the chances that the Chinese users would find information that their government doesn’t want them to find, […]

There may be some potential to Sarkozy’s proposal to tax major Internet advertising companies in order to raise money to support creative industries, if done for the right reasons and approached from the correct angle. Unfortunately, the reasons are all wrong and the approach is incorrect, so it’s simply yet another attempt to support industries […]

I first wrote about Australia’s Internet censorship plans about a year ago. Unfortunately, I find myself needing to mention this issue once again today, because it really looks like those plans are about to be implemented, regardless of the criticism. How many other “Great Firewalls” will be created in the near future, once a country […]

I knew of the talks about this for quite some time, but it appears that now they’re no longer just talks. I still think that it’s a leap in the wrong direction, however, because allowing characters that aren’t in the Latin alphabet in domain names encourages people to use their own native languages on the […]