   April 04, 2004 - April 10, 2004 ArchiveApril 10, 2004Another Study Suggests P2P Is Good for Album Sales
This one, from a Princeton honors student, finds that Internet adoption has a positive correlation to music sales.
VoteHere for Transparent Elections
The election security company has released its source code, documentation of known issues and a host of other materials for public review. Bravo!
Broadcast Flag for Digital Radio?
The technology is very young, but according to Public Knowledge and Digital Consumer, the FCC may already be preparing to slap a broadcast flag on it.
Canada Makes P2P an Election Issue
The leader of Canada's New Democratic Party thinks P2P is good for society and may not lead to lost record sales.
April 09, 2004Fighting Censorship with P2P
Ross Anderson envisions a future in which government censors and news syndicates don't regulate what news we view.
PlayFair Fouled by DMCA
An open source project that offered tools to strip the DRM from your legally purchased files is now offline because of a DMCA notice.
April 08, 2004Info Activism Comes of Age
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the recent history of copyright and what activists are doing to change it.
Broad Coalition Asks FCC to Leave VoIP Alone
The group focused on economic arguments, opting not to comment on the FBI's request for surveillance access in VoIP services.
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Canada Moves Toward VoIP Regulation
Our northern neighbors don't have a CALEA-styled surveillance future hanging in the balance, but they nevertheless want more control over the services.
Gmail Runs into Trademark Trouble
Is Goomail taken?
Wal-Mart Joins the Copyfight?
The company will soon sell DVD players equipped with ClearPlay - an on-the-fly editing technology designed to excise racy scenes. Directors claim that it violates copyright law and unacceptably drains the films' mojo.
Court Allows Challenge in Copyright Boomerang Case
A Colorado court has allowed a group of artists to continue its case fighting the re-copyrighting of public domain work.
Unfriendly Skies: ACLU to File Suit Over No-Fly Lists
The class-action suit will challenge the lists that keep supposedly dangerous people - and those with similar names - permanently grounded.
Ohio Wants Paper Trails
Ohio's Joint Committee on Ballot Security, comprised of bipartisan legislators, voted 7-1 that all Ohio voting machines should have voter-verified paper audit trails by 2006. It's now up to the legislature and Secretary of State to act on that recommendation.
April 07, 2004Lord of the Sims
Reason on unexpected patterns of social (mis)behavior in "The Sims Online."
Op-ed: Florida's E-Day Tech Still Flawed
Mark Grossman of The Miami Herald with a scathing editorial on the e-voting situation in Florida.
Gmail May Violate EU Privacy Laws
Not unlike a certain federal passenger-screening program we know.
No More Recording "American Idol" for Cousin Vera
A Hollywood panel is pushing for locked-down set top boxes that can record television only onto encrypted, device-specific DVD discs.
Search Engines Won't Gamble on Net Casinos
Google and Yahoo will no longer carry ads for online casinos - many of which may be illegal for use by U.S. citizens - because of a "lack of clarity" in the legal and regulatory environment.
WIPO Broadcast Treaty Hits the Fan
It's only a draft - perhaps they're waiting for the final version to remove the evil?
Both Hands on the Wheel
The Tennessee legislature is considering a bill that would ban drivers from watching pornography in cars.
Weinberger's Three Horsemen of the Infopocalypse
The noted author says that DRM, digital identity technologies and trusted computing will significantly damage our ability to work with digital content.
France Moves Forward on "Digital Economy" Bill
The controversial legislation increases ISP liability for material that they host and lowers protections for email privacy.
April 05, 2004The RIAA Has No Clothes
The NYT on the recent study that found file sharing doesn't hurt album sales.
Gov't Clarifies Rule on Editing Foreign Work
A recent rule seemed to ban scientists from editing the work of colleagues in embargoed countries; the feds say that's not their intent.
Industry Standardizes DRM
ISO has codified MPEG Rights Expression Language - an expandable DRM-signaling system - into a standard.
Lee Tien's Talk @ the Yale Cybercrime Conference
As blogged by Cardoza law professor Susan Crawford.
Music to Our Ears: Donating to Bands You Download
A Wilco fan got the group's latest album by downloading it from the Net, so he set up a site where others could donate to the band.
DIY Guide to Building a Better Personal Video Recorder
Too bad that high-definition versions of these boxes will be illegal to sell once the broadcast flag goes into effect.
B-Flag Burns Open Software Radio Projects
Software-defined radio makes it possible for one device to use many bands of spectrum, reducing the need to partition and sell swaths of the public airwaves to corporate squatters. Too bad the FCC's broadcast flag would make open source projects like this illegal.
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