March 2006 Archive
March 27, 2006
The Gagged ISP Operator
The CEO of an ISP talks (as much as he or she can legally do so) about receiving a National Security Letter.
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Free Software's White Knight
ZDNet interviews Eben Moglen, the FSF's general counsel.
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Posted at 01:02 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Misc.
Russian Software Developer Beats Pirate in Boxing Ring
Now that's what we'd call a protection measure.
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Posted at 01:02 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
Come to FreedomHEC!
Immediately after Microsoft's depressingly restriction-obsessed WinHEC, Don Marti is organizing a DRM-free alternative for systems developers in Seattle.
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Posted at 01:02 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Intellectual Property Run Amok
A great list of IP oddities from Mother Jones.
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Copyright
Should the Internet Play Favorites?
The Washington Post discusses network neutrality and the AOL-Goodmail furor.
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Posted at 01:02 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Digging Up the DRM Debate
Mac Observer editors duke it out over DRM.
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Posted at 01:02 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
March 22, 2006
Court Subpoenas Deleted GMail Messages
Remember: Google never forgets.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
Self-Destructing RFIDs With Cell Phones
The kill code for RFIDs can be extracted by remote power analysis -- possibly even using a mobile phone.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
FBI Pushed to Consider Warrantless Physical Searches
After 9-11, the FBI was told that "black bag jobs" could be legal, says US News.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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RIAA Doesn't Get to Randomly Hunt Through Everyone's Computers
Judge lets a defendant hire her own forensics expert to examine her PC
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Podcasting in the UK
European collection agencies are experimenting with charges for podcasters.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Let the World See Your Tax Data
IRS will allow preparers to sell your tax data, says the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
The Night John Lennon Died
Ren Bucholz spots an historic tape-recording that the audio flag would have forbidden.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
Free Hao Wu
Chinese authorities have arrested blogger and filmmaker Hao Wu.
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Posted at 01:58 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Speech
March 17, 2006
Google's Gaffe Reveals Internal Secrets
There's a delicious irony in Google formulating plans to store gigabytes of user data, and then accidentally leaking their own.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Wiretapping Vulnerabilities
EFF's Seth Schoen reports on wiretapping: how it works, and how a simple touch-tone chord can disable it.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Surveillance
Unintended Consequences of Copyright Warnings
The copyright "education" domain publicized on all Canadian CDs expired and has been replaced by a Russian MP3 site.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Save The Music Fan
Music label launches campaign to stop the RIAA suits.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
PS3 Delayed to Implement DRM
Blu-Ray DRM issues was a sizeable component of PS3 shipping slippage.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Other Analog Hole
Everyone has similar "problems" to the MPAA's over analog leakage -- but it's obvious how impossible it would be to legislate against it.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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SXSW to MPAA: STFU
The MPAA gets short shrift from artists and innovators at South-by-Southwest
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
RIAA Says Future DRM Might "Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Potentially Endanger Lives"
RIAA concedes that DRM might have far-reaching consequences, but is reticent to allow circumvention to solve that.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Yale Holding Access to Knowledge Conference
Covering IP issues for developing countries.
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International IP
The Truth About Your Battery Life
Handling complex DRM reduces the battery life of iPods and other MP3 players.
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Posted at 03:20 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
March 10, 2006
Be More Aware!
This was Copyright Awareness Week, as if tech consumers aren't being made aware of the hard edges of copyright every day.
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
U.S. Grants Patent for AJAX
Will Web 2.0 grow successful enough to attract patent trolls?
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Patents
How to Put Your DVDs on Your iPod
Wired magazine bravely tells you how to circumvent a technological protection measure.
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
The Economics of Freeloading on Wireless Networks
Is it bad for the Wi-Fi owner? Is it bad for ISPs? What should be done?
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Startup Trades on First Sale Doctrine
Renting CDs isn't allowed under U.S. law -- but can you enable the trading of used CDs?
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
ABC News: "Congress Renews Patriot Act; Bush to Sign"
Nail-biting to the end: two more votes against would have killed it.
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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You're Not Allowed to Photograph That
The EFF reveals their non-disclosure agreement to the technologists at this year's Emerging Technology conference.
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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"Another Lousy DRMed Product"
Tim Lee deconstructs the problems behind the famously bad New Yorker CD DRM.
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Posted at 09:53 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Broadcast Flag -- Not This Year?
The chair of the House Commerce Committee says he doesn't expect a flag law to appear in 2006.
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Bad Laws
March 03, 2006
DRM Down Under
Australian report examines how to avoid America's mistakes in implementing the DMCA.
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Posted at 02:13 PM by Derek Slater |
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International IP
Poll: Americans Reject Government Spying on our Searches
Though split about Google turning search data over, 65% of Americans oppose government monitoring.
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Posted at 02:10 PM by Derek Slater |
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Data Retention
How Will the Chinese Remember America?
Journalist Rebecca Mackinnon considers how Internet companies' (in)action today will impact tomorrow's Chinese citizens.
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Posted at 02:06 PM by Derek Slater |
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Free Speech
Yahoo! Music Exec: Dump the DRM!
Refreshing common sense from David Goldberg at the Music 2.0 conference.
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Posted at 02:03 PM by Derek Slater |
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TIA Data Mining Program Proceeds in Secret
Item number 437 on the laundry list of surreptitious government privacy invasions.
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Posted at 01:59 PM by Derek Slater |
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Center for Democracy and Technology Releases Report on Digital Surveillance
Proposes stronger privacy protections in light of new technology.
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Posted at 01:53 PM by Derek Slater |
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Privacy
RIAA and Broadcasters to Huddle on Audio Broadcast Flag
Nothing like negotiating about the future of digital radio devices without a technology company or consumer advocate in the room.
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Posted at 01:50 PM by Derek Slater |
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The Benefits of MySpace
While the media panics about its dangers, danah boyd takes a much-needed look at the social networking site's value.
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Posted at 01:29 PM by Derek Slater |
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Reflections on "Cultural Environmentalism"
James Boyle reflects on his seminal article about extreme intellectual property laws, ten years after its publication.
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Posted at 01:17 PM by Derek Slater |
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Free Culture
Copyright, a new Open Access Journal
"Peer-reviewed journal ... seeks papers on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age."
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Posted at 01:13 PM by Derek Slater |
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Copyright
Shareholder Value and Human Rights Aren't Mutually Exclusive
Boston Common Asset Management pushes companies to improve conduct in China.
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Posted at 01:01 PM by Derek Slater |
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The Illustrious Employment of "Sue Hollywood"
She's EFF's Fifth Beatle, but with more office chairs. At least that's what Zoominfo's search engine told us.
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Posted at 12:53 PM by Derek Slater |
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U.C. Berkeley Deems Google Desktop 3 Unsafe
Campus security warns that "Search Across Computers" could put private data on Google's servers.
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Posted at 12:37 PM by Derek Slater |
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Privacy
The Power of the Playlist
WashingtonPost.com highlights the cultural benefits of allowing music fans to share their tastes.
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Posted at 12:28 PM by Derek Slater |
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Free Culture
