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Opinie: Proximus vs. Netneutraliteit

Deze opinie verscheen op 26/12/2017 in de papieren en digitale editie van De Morgen. Ondersteun De Morgen, koop een krant. Taxatie versus Innovatie Je kan het ijzer beter smeden als het heet is, ook als je er je fikken aan verbrandt. Dat moet ongeveer de gedachtegang geweest zijn van Proximus-CEO …

Netneutraliteit

Op donderdag 23 november 2017 was ik te gast in het Canvas-programma De Afspraak, met een item over Net Neutraliteit, naar aanleiding van de recente aankondiging van de FCC in de VS. Het item is hier opnieuw te bekijken: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl.permalink.1511451549441/

Opinie: Telenet, Big Brother uit Mechelen

Op 13 september 2016 werd ik via e-mail op de hoogte gebracht van aanpassingen aan het privacybeleid van Telenet. Dat mijn “Telenet-ervaring” (want àlles is een ervaring tegenwoordig, niet gewoon een product waarvoor ik centen neertel) zou worden “gepersonaliseerd”. Extraatjes? Een “persoonlijke” aanpak? My my, wat ben ik een bofkont! …

Spectrial: the sequel

Whereas the first part of the Spectrial – the case against the Swedish-born torrent site/tracker The Pirate Bay – was covered extensively in journals and reports worldwide (on this very blog, for example), the appeals case which starts today has only received minimal attention. In april 2009, the four defendants …

China's 'open' internet

In response to Google’s blogpost concerning several attacks which were targeted at human rights activists GMail accounts during december, supposedly by the Chinese government, Chinese officials have this response (Jiang Yu, Chinese Foreight Ministry spokeswoman): China’s internet is open and the Chinese government encourages development of the internet. No it …

Forged Evidence: Copy (it) right?

Interesting developments in the BREIN vs. The Pirate Bay case,  see brokep’s blogpost. It looks like they faked evidence (download PDF) in order to connect Fredrik Neij to Reservella, the company owning The Pirate Bay since a couple of years, in order to direct all the costs and fees to …

Asking Europe for an Open Internet

Sign this petition, it’s vital. France recently accepted a 3-strikes law for internet users, and the UK is about to implement a (washed-down, but still) version of it. This is unacceptable! 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual. Internet users are entitled to access, send and receive the …

Spectrial, day 8

Due to a very busy day I didn’t have the time to fully cover today’s episode of the #Spectrial. For excellent coverage of the events, I happily refer to Torrentfreak. Just some side remarks and thoughts on today’s events behind the cut. I’ll get back to you tomorrow! :)

Spectrial, day 7

The trial against the Pirate Bay kicked off again (see brokep’s Twitter) at 13:00 today. You can find a convenient schedule of the hearings coming up at QbatHQ. The next three days will consist of so called witness hearings (am I the only one thinking witness sounds a bit off …