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Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft by ProbablyJoe · 2011-10-06 20:41 · Score: 1 · on Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit

Earliest I can find with a quick google search is 2002: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26128&cid=2831897

It's even been translated to Italian! http://punto-informatico.it/c.aspx?i=174594&m=174632

Re:And yet, the italians keep voting for this guy by eaman · 2010-01-16 13:50 · Score: 1 · on Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads

Democracy works as long as you can chose who to vote for, and you have means to chose between differents candidates based on facts of your interests.

In the latest years in Italy citizens have lost the right to choose who to elect, as the very same politics choose who can be elected, and small parties are automatically left out of parliament. If you are not part of the system you just don't get any space in TV (80% of electors base they votes on TV programs), or as soon as you do anything to gain attention you are turned in monster by a media system (look fo Minzolin of TG1) where politics chose the journalists and/or own the newspapers or TV.

Population is very old so is not used to internet (BTW: remember they used to study French at school instead of english) , government puts taxes on the Internet and digital media [1], money for the net infrastructure have been always redirect to other projects (this year was the deficit of Sicily who is one of the biggest elector of the actual government) since always, but Italy is the first country of Europe for digital TV: they give money to anyone for buying a new TV and old people almost can get new ones for free.

Right now as seven TV news shows exist (3 mediaset + 3 RAI + La7) tree are owned by Berlusconi (Mediaset), of 3 public channels 2 are controlled by the governament (TG1 wich is the prime time and most watched one, and TG2. While Tg3 is left to the opposition but RAI3 is supposed to be the "local / regional" TV so most of the news space is not about nation interests, and it's not even able to transmit the news show on prime time as Tg1 and Tg2 take both half an hour aorund prime time. So they decided to make the national interests TG shorter (as in 5 minutes). )

Then you have La7 wich is owned by Telecom: the telephony monopoly which could not exist without the government. Then there's SKY (Murdoch) which is pay-per-view, it get two times the taxes of the other channels, can't get as much advertisement of the others channels.

Berlusconi usually doesn't ever bother to partecipate to any political debate where anyone from an other party or journalist could pone questions to him. Lately Berlusconi goes around claiming that his is "The party of Love" and anyone who tries to speak against him (and there are many! ) is just "manufacturing Hate" and is against Italy: because as you said, Italians did vote for him so he shouldn't be bother with trials and other annoyances.

1 - http://punto-informatico.it/2787994/PI/Commenti/equo-compenso.aspx

No more Pirate Bay DNS ban in Italy by eaman · 2008-09-26 04:40 · Score: 1 · on Positive Rights News From Europe

BTW: you can add the victory in an italian court that has removed the DNS ban of the Pirate Bay, placing a prevedent on the matter.
More details on: http://punto-informatico.it/2417079/PI/Brevi/italia-sblocca-accesso-the-pirate-bay.aspx
if you are confident with italian language.

Allready happening in Italy by eaman · 2007-07-21 19:59 · Score: 1 · on Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders

In the Peppermint case, which is about recording industry suing about 3600 italians P2P users for music copyright infringement, one tribunal in Rome has reject the request by the accusation to the ISPs to track down the identities of those users. Privacy is the matter: you are not allowed to track user traffic without an authorization from a tribunal.

Re:What about europe? by eaman · 2007-05-16 14:56 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents

I got news: Italy has just lunched OOS: http://www.osspa.cnipa.it/home/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=30

Basically it's a 'SourceForge' for the software to be used in the public administration, all with 'open source' licences.

The new government (we got rid of Berlusconi eventually) has sponsored 30 millions of euro to develop new software for the PA, preference will be given to those with a open licence. http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1990138&r=PI

Cheers

Effects of bugs on Ballmer's mood. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-15 11:55 · Score: 0 · on Word 2007 Flaws Are Features, Not Bugs

Well, I'd better rephrase it:
Monkeyboy couldn't care less about bugs, he's
only mad at people knwing about them :-D
Now, about those effects:

http://punto-informatico.it/pm.aspx?id=1957568&m_i d=1957779&r=PI
(it's about the recent Win2000/2003 DNS vulnerability)

Translation of the italian captions:
"Before discovery of the vulnerability"
"After the feral news (note the despair)"

Re:as an italian... by mbaciarello · 2005-12-11 02:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on Law Requires Italian Web Cafes to Record ID

It's been on the news for months. The proposed bill, announced July 27, has actually been enacted as an executive provision ("decreto ministeriale," ministerial decree) by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It's now awaiting ratification by Parliament, which is required to make it an official law. It will expire if it's not voted on, or rejected. It's been called "decreto Pisanu," from the name of the signing Minister, since late August.

Next time, as an Italian, try reading papers or web daily Punto Informatico. The third story is about cafés being raided and closed in Florence for several criminal offences. Some of them have been shut down for 5 days because of violations of "decreto Pisanu," as further proof that this idiotic law is already being enacted.

What is, to me, the worst part has not been mentioned in the /. blurb. The wording in the law, apparently, makes ID recording mandatory for public WiFi access, as well, independent of the nature of the service - be it paid for, free of charge/public, or a city-wide municipal network. This may very well kill the stuttering penetration of commercial and public WiFi in Italy. Who's going to pay for the guy in charge of checking the validity of, and registering ID for people who want to connect to the library's free wireless network? Or just think of the lines to get registered for the airport's network...