April 2006 Archive
April 27, 2006
GETV at EFF Email Debate
Geek Entertainment TV interviews moderator Mitch Kapor and debaters Danny O'Brien and Esther Dyson about the future of email.
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Derek Slater |
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Public Knowledge: Net Neutrality Video
Public Knowledge spells out net neutrality in 30 seconds.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Email: Who (if Anyone) Should Pay?
Dan Farber's summary of the EFF fundraising debate between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Software Author Told to Pay $203,000 for Railroad Patent
Turned out the software he was being sued for was, in itself, prior art.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Gonzales Calls for Mandatory Web Labeling law
Among the requirements, draft law requires a warning on "initially viewable" portions of the website. Mandatory interstitials?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Watching the Watchers: Video of Congress With Metadata
Metavid is a UCSC project to providable a public, searchable archive of CPAN. Would the Broadcast Treaty kill this innovation?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Creative Commons SF Salon in May
Creative Commons is holding a salon on May 10th in San Francisco. Share the date!
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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IP Senators: No, no, Wrong Kind of Kickback
Senator Conrad Burns returns his iPod, despite taking $59K from the entertainment industry.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Cato's Copyright Cage Fight
Intellectuals on both sides of the IP debate spar at the Cato Institute (RealPlayer archives available soon).
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
German Moderators Liable for Forum Commenters
Judge suggests you pre-mod comments or shut down site.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
William Patry: Protecting the Idle Rich
William Patry's landmark legal paper on the futility of copyright extension.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture
"Let a thousand technologies bloom" -- Cato Institute continues its analysis of copyright and unleashing truly free markets.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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And They Worry About CD *Burners*?
Great photograph of 80,000 pirated CDs destroyed in Lima, Peru. Isn't this who the record labels should be targeting?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Can Foreign Governments Be Trusted With Your Travel Records?
Privacy International blows the whistle to the EU about US plans to re-use foreign citizens airline passenger records.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
Is US Proposing a Global ID System?
I imagine this will go down well among UN admirers.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
New Hampshire Stands Against Federal ID Cards
Will other states refuse to comply with the Real ID guidelines?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
April 19, 2006
Commissioner Tate Will Use FCC "Bully Pulpit" To Promote DRM
Supports DRM, even when courts have restricted FCC's power in that arena.
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Posted at 01:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Fast Forward Denied
Phillips patents a system that would make you pay to skip ads on TV.
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Posted at 01:09 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Au Revoir, YouTube; Auf Wiedersehen Vlogs
The effect of proposed EU broadcasting regulations, if extended to the Net.
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Posted at 01:09 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
Ken Burns Gives Voice to Filmmakers' Concerns
The documentary maker pans the Smithsonian's plans to sell first-refusal access to their works.
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Posted at 01:09 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
April 18, 2006
Problems De-duping Democracy
Database inconsistencies may cause thousands of California voters to be struck from the rolls.
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Posted at 05:13 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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When the DMCA Attacks its Own
Copyright maximalist Tom Giovanetti loses a season of data on his DVR. But encrypted drives and forbidden devices are not to blame!
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Posted at 05:13 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Data Retention Comes to the USA
As always: Europe passes compulsory collection of ISP data, so now the US government wants it, too.
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Posted at 05:13 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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HDCP: Broken by Design
The design of a key digital video output restriction is broken, says Ed Felten, and considers why.
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Posted at 05:13 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
April 14, 2006
2006 Underhanded C Contest
The competition for sneaky code-writing is back, and this year it's all about the "plausible deniability."
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Does OK Spyware Bill Give Carte Blanche to EULAs?
An Oklahoma bill would enshrine in law software's ability to root through your hard drive, if you click the "Agree" button.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Wiretapping on the Increase in Europe
It's not just for the NSA.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Some Worries as San Francisco Goes Wireless
New York Times points to EFF's concerns with Google's pan-Francisco Wi-Fi.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Remote Storage DVRs Pose "Gigantic Copyright Issues"
TV industry freaks at CableVision's attempts to centralize time-shifting video.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Chinese Food for Thought
The Center for Democracy and Technology's resources on tech company's work in China.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Speech
Ex-MPAA Anti-Piracy Enforcer Joins MySpace as "Chief Security Officer"
Hemanshu Nigam will be protecting the children for News Corp.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Grover Norquist Seeks Trademark on "K Street Project" Name
Worries that the lobbying brand may be tarnished in Washington.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Another Think Tank Turns Against the DMCA
The Competitive Enterprise Institute says big rightsholders shouldn't be subsidized by the state.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Mark Mulligan: Who's Got The BPI's Missing 0.81 Billion?
Jupiter Research skewers the British Phonographic Industry's piracy figures.
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Posted at 11:29 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
April 05, 2006
Mitch Kapor's New Blog
Founder of EFF posts commentary and news about his Open Source Applications Foundation.
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Posted at 06:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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IPac Blog on Smithsonian Public Domain Lock Up
Ren Bucholz notes that Smithsonian-pilfering Showtime locks all non-US viewers out of its website.
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Posted at 06:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Culture
MAFIAA
At last, the RIAA and MPA combine forces!
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Posted at 06:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Mono's Ring of Patent Fire
Greg from Redhat's Fedora project explains how Mono is protected by Novell's armory of ex-Commerce One patents.
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Posted at 06:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Historical Precedent for EFF vs AT&T
Shayana Kadidal points to two landmark 18th century cases that mirror our wiretapping case.
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Posted at 06:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
April 04, 2006
MythTV Invades Realm of Cable and TiVo
A nice, if cursory, look at the freeing power of MythTV from the Washington Post.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Who's in Control?
Mark Fleischmann, author of Practical Home Theater, gives a stirring call to arms over control of your media.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
Pay-per-email and the "Market Myth"
Peacefire's Bennett Hasselton writes on the problems of Goodmail.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Beware Zombies Bearing EULAs
Video store customer inadvertently hands over soul, becomes undead.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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How AACS Works
An overview from one of the creators.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Michigan Video Game Law Declared Unconstitutional
Video games are protected free speech.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Sour Peas Taste Sweet Victory
The sweet pea serial trademark litigant drops its cases against 52 online defendants.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Music Industry: Is Digital Making Up the Difference?
Wired's Chris Anderson takes a hard look at latest "OMG! Sky is falling!" music industry stats.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Smithsonian Locks the Public Out
The Smithsonian signs deal with Showtime, which means reduced access for documentarians and the entire public.
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Posted at 01:31 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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