Hi All, Wish you a very Happy New Year. While there have been several about the fact that the Lok Sabha recently passed the Information Technology Act 2000...
Mr Vijayshankar has uploaded the text on his website: Links are ITA 2008 : http://www.naavi.org/ita_2008/index.htm ITA 2000 Vs ITA 2008 :: ...
Vickram Crishna
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Jan 3, 2009 10:25 am
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Thanks Vickram, just want to side track a bit, i am sure there are IP courses are strong at the moment. Do you know anywhere in india where I can get a...
After eight years of enablement through ITA 2000, the Government of India started publishing the gazette notifications as e-gazettes. It is and always will be...
Unfortunately, the body of public opinion is steadfastly turned to an impression that the expression "There's no such thing as a free lunch" is equivalent to...
Vickram Crishna
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Jan 18, 2009 7:20 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... What licence is the gazette published under? If there's no copyright and no copy restrictions, it's feasible for an individual (or an ...
Raj Mathur
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Jan 19, 2009 4:00 am
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Chances are that's at least a copyright violation. If the government chooses to prosecute it - which they probably will if they see this as a revenue stream...
Dear Friends There has been a few questions on this forum about the new IT Act amendments. As has already been posted here, the copy of the ITA 2000 as amended...
Sure. -- srs / nokia e71 -original message- Subject: Re: [claw-in] Why e Gazette should not be free? From: "naavi" <naavi9@...> Date: 19-01-2009 11:23 We...
We are discussing contents in http://egazette.nic.in/ ITA 2000 had already enabled the issue of gazettes in electronic form. The website however does not...
... Why not? Any document has a licence associated with it, or it is in the public domain. If the latter, then redistribution is not a problem. If the...
Raj Mathur
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Jan 19, 2009 6:28 am
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"If the latter, then redistribution is not a problem. " I think it has been clearly pointed out that the gazette contents are public notices, for which the...
Vickram Crishna
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Jan 19, 2009 4:46 pm
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The moderators are criminally and civil liable for whatever appears on the list, under all of Indian, UK, and US laws. The position is identical to that of an...
Please see my article on Section 69, 69 A, 69 B of Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 and clause 5 (2) of Indian Telegraph Act 1885. It is in...
Please see my article on Section 69, 69 A, 69 B of Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 and clause 5 (2) of Indian Telegraph Act 1885. It is the cover...
The recent incident where the NDTV Managing Director, Ms Barkha Dutt has reportedly taken offence to a comment made in a blog forcing the blogger to tender an...
While entirely applauding the notion that citizen journalists have an unalienable right to pursue their calling (and since they have neither editors nor...
Vickram Crishna
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Jan 29, 2009 7:56 pm
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I wrote a detailed article on the IMEI situation in Current weekly, issue of Mon 26 Jan 09 to 01 Feb 09. Also had very interesting discussions on this...
I am the author of the article in today's Indian Express on how the amended infotech act permits unrestricted snooping. My name is there in the print edition,...
Yup. Can be done freely with Google Latitude. This article on the Privacy International site points to loopholes in the Latitude structure that can be...
Vickram Crishna
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Feb 6, 2009 10:04 am
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We have started 'Lost/Stolen Mobiles & Computers' section on www.alertindian.com . Please send me your views. Regards, Dhananjay P Mali ... From:...
being <blatant self promotion> Pl watch me on News X TV channel of 9X group on night of Thu, 19 March 2009, speaking about developments in India's telecom...
begin <blatant self promotion> Pl watch me on News X TV channel of 9X group on night of Thu, 19 March 2009, speaking about developments in India's telecom...
1. "The amendments passed by Parliament require internet behemoths like Google, Rediff and Microsoft — which provide free email services — to set up Indian...
Vickram Crishna
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Apr 9, 2009 3:02 pm
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Alright so if a terrorist sends an e-mail from an outside India e-mail provider using a cracked proxy or some anonymizer like Tor. How does the originator get...
@Tarun: "Alright so if a terrorist sends an e-mail from an outside India e-mailprovider using a cracked proxy or some anonymizer like Tor. " In fact, over the...
Vickram Crishna
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Apr 10, 2009 3:17 am
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I will be doing a program on this on News X TV Channel on Sat 11 April 2009.. It will be broadcast on News X TV from evening of Sat 11 April as part of news. ...