Wetter sez, "Hacktivists from the Chaos Computer Club publicly protested against copy protection and DRM at todays starting IFA – consumers electronics trade fair in Berlin. The goal is to be seen by mainstream media reporting about IFA, HDready, DRM and others by giving the pictures and critical statements to journalists and consumers. — Read the rest

Carsten sez,

The German movie industry's campaign to scare people from illegally copying movies and other copyrighted material ("Hart aber gerecht", translates to something like "tough but just") has experienced a real blow to its public image, again.

The image put forward by the campaign strongly contrasts with the supposed level of technical knowledge within the organization as well as their webhosters: for a period of about 21 hours the server's DocumentRoot was open to the public.

Markus sez, "I was participating the WSIS in Tunis. One evening there was a event, organized by the Brasilian ministry of culture. Gilberto Gil gave a prize to Richard Stallman for his work on freedoms. Later on that evening, both did a jam-session together. — Read the rest

Markus sez, "The European network of consumers rights organizations, BEUC, has started a very cool campaign for consumer rights in copyright-law: 'Consumers Digital Rights'. The campaign includes free music licenced under the CC, lots of interviews, much background information about copyright-regulation in europe and a campaign-declaration." — Read the rest

Philip sez, "Yesterday, Microsoft Germany rented the Berlin municipal parliament house to lobby the delegates after the day's session. Berlin's government thinks about switching to Linux and although everybody (at Microsoft and at the Berlin administration) denies it, this was a clear attempt to influence that process. — Read the rest