Category Archives: Technology

Did India really get the Copyright act right?

By admin | Published: April 23, 2010
Boing Boing and Ars Technica are talking about how India got the copyright act right. Essentially, they’re comparing the bill introduced in Indian parliament to current US law on the issue of DRM. I’m going to touch upon a different aspect of the draft bill, however, one that livemint picked up. The bill seems to specify that [...]
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Silence and the spectrum auction

By admin | Published: May 19, 2008
The recently concluded 700MHz spectrum auction in the US has been in the news a lot lately. Everybody is talking about how Google “won” despite having lost . An interesting aspect of the process was that the bidders were forbidden from talking about the auctions until they concluded. In this post, I shall try to [...]
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