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March 28, 2004 - April 03, 2004 Archive

April 02, 2004

RIAA Gets Burned in the Sunshine State

An Orlando court ruled that the recording industry can't go after 25 P2P users - who don't know one another - with a single suit. Yet another court reminds the RIAA about that pesky "due process" concept.

» link | Posted at 10:23 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: P2P | Privacy

Gmail Bad for Privacy? Larry Page Calls Us Crazy

But then points out that the scenarios we envision might be possible and should be investigated.

» link | Posted at 09:57 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

iTunes Under Scrutiny

Harvard's Digital Media Project with a study of the norms and laws around Apple's iTunes.

April 01, 2004

Google Wants to Deliver, Read Your Mail

Their new email service reportedly will analyze its subscribers messages and display ads based on their content.

» link | Posted at 03:57 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

FCC Loses Bid to Call Cable "Information Services"

Instead, the 9th Circuit held that cable providers look an awful lot like telecom services - a distinction that may force the coaxial giants to share their networks with competitors.

» link | Posted at 01:09 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Telecom Policy

EU Grounds US Request for Passenger Data

The EU Parliament says that US requests for passenger data would violate privacy laws. Really?

» link | Posted at 11:51 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

Circuit City Buys MusicNow for Undisclosed Sum

They didn't actually use the words "fire sale," but we're still guessing that they paid in nickels.

» link | Posted at 11:39 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Misc. | P2P

A Tale of Two PDEAs

Rep. Lofgren's "Public Domain Enhancement Act" would restore some balance to copyright law, while the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act" is a super-sampler of bad IPR enforcement. Unfortunately, it's the second PDEA that just got the green light from a House panel.

» link | Posted at 10:04 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright | P2P

March 31, 2004

E-Voting Official Accused of Accepting Illegal Gift

And it wasn't even her birthday!

» link | Posted at 12:51 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: E-Voting

Music Execs Rely on P2P Statistics

It's not new news, but it's nice to see more stories on how the recording industry uses P2P to sell records.

» link | Posted at 12:48 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

Canada's Copyright Revolution: As Good as it Gets

A Canadian court just issued an awesome, hyperbole-defying decision in the case involving CRIA's attempts to obtain P2P users' identities.

» link | Posted at 12:44 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright | P2P

March 30, 2004

Comprehensive Look at E-Voting Risks

Kim Zetter at Wired with a terrific feature on the dangers of e-voting.

» link | Posted at 11:20 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: E-Voting

Recording Industry Launches World Tour of P2P Lawsuits

IFPI, the recording industry's international umbrella organization, has launched P2P suits in Germany, Denmark, Italy and Canada.

» link | Posted at 08:20 AM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

March 29, 2004

SCO "License" Aimed at Other Linux Users

Ed Foster argues that SCO's "license" is actually intended to ease its future litigation against Linux users. Surprised? Neither are we.

» link | Posted at 11:04 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright

Reuters to Track Online Uses of its Copyrights

In an effort to stem copyright violations, the news organization is using a custom search tool to find and log uses of its material on the Web.

» link | Posted at 10:23 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright

Blogs Go Black As China Blocks More Sites

This time the country is blocking all blogs from the hosting service Typepad.

» link | Posted at 09:48 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Free Speech

Wal-Mart to Miss RFID Deadline

Citing expense and RFID's technological immaturity, the world's largest retailer will miss its April 1st deadline to have RFID chips in many of the products it carries.

» link | Posted at 02:33 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy | Surveillance

March 28, 2004

We Didn't Start the Fire: Report Says P2P Not Behind Record Slump

The joint report from Harvard Business School and UNC Chapel Hill says that P2P's effect on album sales is "statistically indistinguishable from zero."

» link | Posted at 09:09 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

Wilco and Lessig, Together at Last

It makes perfect sense that these two proponents of free culture would have such an interesting conversation.

» link | Posted at 09:04 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright | P2P

ReplayTV Hacks: Features Hollywood Doesn't Want you to Have

ReplayTV made products so modifiable that almost any feature could be added by someone with the brains to build it - until Big Content sued it into the ground. Here's a round-up of DIY-features for legacy owners.

» link | Posted at 08:29 PM by Ren Bucholz | Permalink | Other Links: DRM