   July 2005 ArchiveJuly 28, 2005Senate Takes Turn Wagging Finger at P2P Post-Grokster
At a hearing held today, several members of the Senate Commerce Committee threatened P2P companies, warning that legislation may be on the way even after the Grokster ruling.
Biz School Lesson #1: Don't Sue Your Best Customers
British market research firm study suggests P2P users buy more digital music online than non-users.
Grokster and the Anarchist in the Library
Copyright and culture guru Siva Vaidhyanathan sits down with Library Journal to discuss the potential effects of Grokster.
If I Had a Dime for Every Time Sony Showed Contempt for the Public
...then I'd be like New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose investigation forced Sony to pony up $10 million for bribing radio stations in violation of state law. Investigation into other record companies may continue, and the FCC may also get involved.
Crippling Innovation, One DRM System at a Time
Bob Frankston describes how innovation will be frustrated as more devices become like his set-top box, which treats him like a criminal by disabling compatibility with his high resolution monitor.
July 20, 2005Audio From Your One Stop DC Grokster Shop
Audio is now available from the Congressional Internet Caucus' meeting on Grokster, featuring our own Fred von Lohmann. News.com coverage here.
July 19, 2005Fisking Dvorak's Diss of Creative Commons
Magazine columnist publishes bizarre critique of Creative Commons rife with misunderstandings; blogger Joe Gratz comes to the rescue.
July 18, 2005No Chmod a+r /dev/audio for You
A federal appeals court rules that a Las Vegas judge erred when he ordered a company to help the FBI eavesdrop on conversations in a suspect's vehicle using the car's "OnStar" cellphone audio.
Place-Shifting Technology, Grokster, and the Broadcast Flag
Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian talks about the careful path an innovative company has to tread these days.
Journalist Sacks Nanny for Being Too Personal on Private Blog, Gets Paid to Write About It for the NYT
Evidently it's not a sackable offense for the journalist to get personal.
July 15, 2005Maybe We'll Make it Back on the Merchandising
Kim Weatherall comments on Tarnation; evidently, it was made for $218, but clearing rights for the film cost an extra $400,000.
Your One Stop DC Grokster Shop
Key figures in the Grokster case - including our own Fred von Lohmann - discuss the implications of the ruling at the Congressional Internet Caucus on July 19th.
State of the Schneier
Long, sprawling, fascinating-throughout interview with Bruce Schneier, the thinking person's security guy.
Euro Telcos: We Put the Customer Second, Right After the Big Record Companies
BT and Eircom did not oppose a request to reveal the identities of their customers by Irish record industry.
July 12, 2005Georgia on my Drive
Rick Bradley has open-sourced his lawskills.com site, including a MySQL database dump of Georgia laws and caselaw.
Export Restrictions on Repression
Not only is the US export of surevillance tools morally questionable, some argue it's illegal. Hiawatha Bray reports.
Music Labels Angry at Free BBC Symphonies
"You are also leading the public to think that it is fine to download and own these files for nothing," accuses label head, neglecting to postfix, "correctly, as it happens."
July 11, 2005I Only Inhaled Finecubancigar.zip
You can browse, but it's illegal to download files from certain Cuban travel agencies, the feds announce.
Our Blogger Discrimination Policy
Reeling university professor dislikes reading the blogs of people he interviews, prefers hiring people whose weirdnesses he will only subsequently discover.
July 08, 2005Smart Counter-terrorism
Bruce Schneier with some timely thoughts on security in the wake of the London bombings.
July 07, 2005Progress, Freedom - and Godwin's Law
James DeLong defends calling collective licensing "socialist gulag," says the term is accurate when we must beg goverment "to exercise control of [ourselves], [our] creations, or property." Await use of "software patents gulag," "anti-circumvention archipelago."
Use Open Wi-Fi, Go to Jail
If FBI just set up a giant orbiting AP set to "linksys," it could entrap all of us.
July 06, 2005Martha Stewart: Freedom To Tinker
MS experiments with circumventing the protections on her ankle monitor: "You can figure out how to get it off," she is quoted as saying. "It's on the Internet. I looked it up."
A Pan-European Online Music License
Rumor of an EU proposal to simplify the licensing process, with a report to be furnished Thursday.
Summary of the EU Software Patents Victory
Amazing hack of the legislative process, against all the odds.
July 05, 2005Broadcast Flag Deliberations Move to Secret Base Within Hollowed-Out Volcano
Broadcasters meet outside the US, outside formal WIPO, to discuss future treaty issues.
Forget Patenting Software, Someone Should Patent Indomitability
The amazing EU anti-software patent effort enters its last 24 hours, with EU officials talking about the software patent proposal being "in trouble."
Dear German ISPs, Please Break the Internet, Thx, Copyright Holders
German ISPs are being asked to poison their DNS caches to redirect Germans from allegedly infringing websites.
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