November 2005 Archive
November 30, 2005
Sony's Apparent Vandalism Continues
... this time, corporate graffitti sprayed to promote the Sony PSP. Did the local community accidentally click through a EULA?
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Senate Sets Ambitious Tech Schedule
Looks like next year will be the Year of Rushed Internet Regulation.
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Posted at 11:17 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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TSA Would Allow Sharp Objects on Airliners
Note that internal studies show half of the Department of Security Theater staff's screening time is spent searching for cigarette lighters.
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Posted at 11:17 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps Evasion, Study Finds
Matt Blaze discovers that a tone box can turn off wiretapping equipment.
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Posted at 11:17 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 29, 2005
One Man Against One Click
Plucky blogger decides to challenge Amazon's one-click patent alone.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Persecuted Iranian Blogger Escapes to Turkey
Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Seraji Tabrizi is seeking assistance in the city of Van.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Fixing the Cybercrime Treaty
Declan on the single amendment that would fix the cybercrime treaty currently before the Senate.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
I Have A Little List (of Bloggers)
A historical and growing database of legal action taken against bloggers.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Trademarks vs Free Speech, Again
Local Ohio Republican party asks the court to shut down an opposing site on trademark grounds: motion denied.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Yet Another Attack on Copyright
This time, by a group who believes that fair use has no place in society.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Sony BMG's Costly Silence
BusinessWeek discovers that Sony knew about their rootkit problem for at least a month before it was separately uncovered.
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Posted at 06:58 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 22, 2005
EU Recording Industry Wants ISPs to Store, Hand Over Private Data
The international equivalent of the RIAA is lobbying the EU to expand data retention (an extreme power proposed to catch terrorists) to include all crimes: especially catching online infringers.
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Posted at 10:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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TiVo to Bring TV Programming to iPod, PSP
Or, as it would be known in a less DRM-encrusted world, "TiVo Introduced Simple File Transferring Feature."
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Posted at 10:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Disturbing Number of Legal Flaws in so-called "DMCA Notices"
A third of DMCA notices submitted to Chilling Effects have no basis in law.
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Posted at 10:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 21, 2005
RIAA Online Chats With Students, Says Sony BMG Blameless
Audience's "OMG", "LOL", and "WTF?!111!"s edited for brevity.
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Posted at 11:47 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Sony Crosses Wrong Man
Texas Attorney General goes after the Sony BMG rootkit.
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Posted at 11:47 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Lessig, Google, and the APA in New York Public Library: Shhhhh!
Summary of the debate from the New York Times: worth reading for the final lines.
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Posted at 11:47 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Culture
November 18, 2005
The Price of Price Discrimination
Joel Spolsky on what the music industry is trying to do when it pushes for multiple iTunes prices.
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Posted at 01:30 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Public Patent Foundation challenges JPEG patent
PPF says Forgent's claims are lossy.
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Posted at 01:30 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Intimidating the Internet
Ethan Zuckerman scatters the secret police in Tunis.
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Posted at 01:30 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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World's Worst Internets
Reporters Without Borders lists the 15 countries as "enemies of the Internet"--including Tunisia, the EU, and the US.
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Posted at 01:30 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Fair Use--Did it Get a Fair Trial?
IPTABlog summarizes Congress' look at fair use.
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Posted at 01:30 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
TV Networks say Digital Recorders Raise Viewership
You see what happens when you try and please customers? Devastation!
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Sory Electronics
Putting pressure on Sony to sincerely apologize--and drop the DRM.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Habitat Jam
A participatory internet-based discussion on the future of cities.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Election Glitch Round-up
A look at what went wrong around the country on Tuesday
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Doc Searls Saves the Net
The upcoming battle over network neutrality and censorship--and how to fight it.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Ping A Congressman Today
Don Marti explains how saving the Net involves writing to your blog and your representative.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Intellectual Property...Bad Democrats!
Matt Stoller wants his party to fight for reasonable IP laws.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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FEC: Blogs Are As Much "Press" As Everyone Else
RedState reports on a decision in the right direction.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bill to Protect Identities of Women in Domestic Violence Shelters Introduced
Currently, all homeless shelters have to provide information on their clients to the federal government. Now an exception may be carved out for women who may be hiding from their partners.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Digital Rights in the UK Meet-Up
Britain's Open Rights Group kicks off with a round-table look at digital rights issues and strategy, featuring Jonathan Zittrain.
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Posted at 08:45 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 14, 2005
Sony Considers Gutting Media Re-sale Market
Sony files patent that would block the lending or selling of second-hand media.
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Posted at 02:50 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Are U.S. Innovators Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Worth reading for the mountainous rise in patent applications over the last few years.
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Posted at 02:49 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Ongoing Story of DRM
USA Today gives a compact rundown, with quotes, of the wider DRM furore.
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Posted at 02:49 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 11, 2005
Kill Bill's Browser
The Downhill Battle folk apply their skills to moving net users to Firefox.
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Posted at 05:18 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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"Foul language" coming to Congress
The National Journal's Drew Clark weighs in on the analog hole.
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Posted at 05:18 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DHS: DRM Can Be Bad for Homeland Security
"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property--it's not your computer," says Stewart Baker of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Posted at 05:18 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Canada's CALEA
The Lawful Access Bill, which will compel ISPs and phone companies to add wiretap capability, will be introduced next week.
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Posted at 05:18 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Selling by the Page
Wendy Grossman looks at changes in marketing--and authorship--in the age of Google Print.
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Posted at 05:18 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 08, 2005
Forrester Grieves for the Music Industry
Suggests they're passing through denial, anger, bargaining, depression--and hopefully, one day, acceptance.
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Posted at 02:23 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Avenging Girl Geekdom
Ex-EFFer Annalee Newitz speaks this Thursday at Harvard on why the technical world isn't just a man's world.
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Posted at 02:23 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM this, Sony!
CNET's Molly Wood lays the smack down on Sony and their deceptive DRM.
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Posted at 02:23 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 07, 2005
DRM Crippled CD: A Bizarre Tale
Market strategist Barry Ritholtz fumes at the idiocy of copy-restricted CDs.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Orphaned Works in our Neighborhood
Bookfinder's founder discovers even his local pasta shop is affected by copyright's problems.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM and Universities
A sad, first-hand account of academics demanding DRM for their own lectures.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Computer HDTV tuners down to $150
In a market that would have been eliminated by the broadcast flag, competition works its magic.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Godwin's Law School
Mike Godwin takes a research fellowship at Yale.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Hole Truth From Wendy Seltzer
Brooklyn prof and EFF alumni deconstructs last Thursday's broadcast flag hearing.
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Microsoft Reverse-Engineers iPod
Uses their god-given to provide iPod to Xbox 360 compatibility
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Copyright
Loose Lips Infringe Trademarks
The New York Metro is attempting to trademark the security warning "See Something, Say Something."
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Posted at 12:06 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 04, 2005
Copyright Office's DMCA Exemption Rule-Making Now Up
Perhaps you'd like to apply to remove Sony rootkits from your machine?
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Posted at 04:29 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Echelon and Color Laser Printer Dots hit USA Today
Any solace that your privacy worries are now mainstream?
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Posted at 04:29 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Websense Filter Censors Microsoft Download Page as Marijuana Advocacy Site
Prompting the question: what exactly are these filter builders on?
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Posted at 04:29 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 03, 2005
There's Nothing Eminent About the Public Domain
Reason argues against the connection between protecting property rights and overly strong IP laws.
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Posted at 03:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Emulating Brazil
Escapist Magazine looks at the importance of videogame emulators in Brazilian culture.
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Posted at 03:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
The Illustrated Guide to Printer Dots
The German Financial Times provides a nice figure explaining secret color laser printer watermarks (in German, alas).
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Posted at 03:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The One-Time Only Web
James Boyle says lawyers would kill the web if it was suggested today.
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Posted at 03:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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November 01, 2005
RFIDs to be placed US Passports
The "Potential Hostage Radio Beacon" is planned for October 2006
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Why Software Patents are Like Smoking
The CEO of MySQL tries to clear the air.
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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RIM vs NTP vs the Common Good
"The tail of inventor enrichment is currently wagging the dog of social benefit," says eWeek.
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Utah Statesman on the Broadcast Flag
The campus section looks into student and faculty worries about broadcast flag legislation.
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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What Would Justice Do?
Donna Wentworth pulls together the clues on Alito's intellectual property stance.
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Sony CDs Install a Rootkit
When content producers think they have a right to your computer.
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Posted at 01:38 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Statewatch's Annotated Guide to EU Data Retention
Everything you might want to know collected in one place--just like the proposal asks.
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