   August 01, 2004 - August 07, 2004 ArchiveAugust 06, 2004Universities Give the Induce Act a Failing Grade
Several coalitions of universities recently sent Senator Hatch a letter that is critical of the Induce Act.
Valenti-isms for the Ages
Tim Wu has compiled a fantastic list of quotes from Jack Valenti, the king of lobbyists and hero of hyperbole. See, e.g., Valenti on the nascent cable industry in 1974: “[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.”
Shake & Break: Tools to Evaluate the War on P2P
The economic impact of P2P has been hotly debated for years, but these people want to know if the RIAA and MPAA themselves are hurting the industry's sales.
40 States and 40 Fights
That's what a recent letter signed by 40 state attorneys general promises if P2P companies don't suddenly gain the ability to control everything on their networks.
Big Blue Promises Safe Passage for Linux
IBM has pledged not to use its massive patent library against the Linux operating system and is challenging other companies to do the same.
Apple Pays for License to Sell Music Online
A company called E-Data has already extracted payments from Microsoft and HMV over its 20-year-old patent on "the transmission of information to a remote point-of-sale location, where the information is then transferred to a material object."
August 04, 2004General Public, Security Experts Feel Differently About E-Voting
This relates to one of our favorite ploys by e-voting supporters: that e-voting is okay because a majority of the public feels good about it. Security experts are just a vocal minority. But, um, don't we rely on experts to tell us about problems that might otherwise go unnoticed and unaddressed?
FBI Wants More Ways to Tap the Net
The Bureau is pushing to ensure that CALEA, a 1994 telecom surveillance bill, applies to broadband-over-fiber.
ACLU Sues to Keep Michigan Out of MATRIX
We're hoping Neo and Trinity won't have to break out the Uzis to keep Michigan residents safe from the privacy-stripping data-mining program.
HP Exec Worries About DRM and Open Source
Martin Fink, HP's vice president for Linux, thinks that moves toward DRM could freeze open source platforms out of desktop PCs.
Arlo Guthrie on JibJab's Use of Woody's Work
According to Woody Guthrie's son, JibJab's parody is an "incredibly wonderful bit of hilarity."
Beleaguered iPod Threatened Down Under?
The Register thinks that the U.S.-Australia free trade agreement could threaten the world's most beloved MP3 player. We're not so sure about that, but there are already more than enough reasons to dislike this treaty.
Kerry On Tech
Declan McCullagh dissects Kerry's long history of votes on tech issues.
China: No Smut for You!
The world's largest country recently shuttered 700 porn sites, arrested more than 200 people, and won the censorship heavyweight title.
Election Threats, In-Depth
The Nation runs a comprehensive piece on the many ways that technology impacts an election.
A Chorus of Musical Copyright Cases
The Columbia Law Library is assembling an archive of cases involving music and claims of copyright infringement. Ready for your close-up, JibJab?
End of the Road for 321 Studios
321 Studios, the company that made easy-to-use backup software for DVDs, has officially folded under the weight of entertainment industry litigation. A sad day for fair use, consumers, and the hundreds of people who lost their jobs at 321.
The Complicated Life of TiVo
Everyone's favorite media appliance is caught in the middle of the digital copyright wars, and this article does a wonderful job of laying out how it's being hurt and who's pulling its strings.
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