Institute for Internet Policy & Law @ Beijing Normal University

Thailand government issued compulsory licenses against the patents for HIV drugs, which make its country into the Special 301 priority watch list of the USTR.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/06-07-2007/fe89006df9516353.html

Italian authority did the same thing to reduce the costs of medicines for the reason of antitrust. If high prices of patent products could be deemed as a cause of unacceptable monopoly, developing countries would enjoy much more flexibility in coping with technical innovation and public health crisis.

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/health.info/twninfohealth086.htm

The users of MSN v.8.1 discover that they can actually access the information of their friends’ friends. By clicking the icon of a contact, a user may access the circle of the friends of that contact. MSN denied this and insisted the loophole can be fixed.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-06-07/04221549563.shtml

With only 10% of the Internet penetration in the whole population, China is now developing the broadband network to bridge the digital divide. One interesting characteristic of the Chinese broadband traffic is that peer-to-peer transmission occupies almost a half. The Chinese peer-to-peer traffic has become several times of American broadband traffic. These features means, on one hand, China has a great potential for Web 2.0 services; on the other, Internet piracy has become extremely serious.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-06/00401547188.shtml

The MII officials have announced that P2P transmission will not be blocked but should be utilized reasonably.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-07/04131549559.shtml

A Compulsory Standard for Digital TVs are supposed to be implemented on August 1, 2007. However, the Standard that actually merged two existing standards developed by Tsinghua and Jiaotong University respectively is still not supported by any chip or equipment. Without the hardware support, the implementation is going to be empty. This is going to be another compulsory standard after WAPI for wireless network connection.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2007-06-05/04111544962.shtml

This is the slogan on the board held high by a protesters when Bill Gates delivered his speech at Beijing University. The protester claims to be the chief representative of Linux Professional Institute (LPI). To strive for open source software, he changed his name from Wang Yang into Wang OpenSource. Microsoft responded that they respect every one’s right of speech.

This is tenth visit of Mr. Gates to China. He just received a honorary PhD from Tsinghua University.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2007-04-20/110312826613.shtml;

http://tech.sina.com.cn/gates_china/index.html

Early discovery of the suspected backdoor in Windows XP Professional version reveals the urgency of implementation of open source and regulation of governmental procurement.

http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200706/news-gb2312-415397.html