October 17, 2004 - October 23, 2004 Archive
October 21, 2004
Israel Creates Licensing System for Private Copies
The country will amend its copyright law to allow citizens to make personal use copies of CDs, so long as the reproductions use licensed media.
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Free Culture Goes Dutch
Dutch Parliamentarians want to put images from publicly owned broadcasters into the public domain.
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Posted at 10:51 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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October 20, 2004
Florida E-voting Has Rocky Start
Unsurprisingly, the state's new voting system had a range of problems when early voting opened this week.
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Posted at 09:47 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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ASCAP Approves Web Radio Licenses
The country's largest licensing agency has approved a $1.7 billion deal that allows radio stations to rebroadcast content over the Net.
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Posted at 09:45 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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EU Pushes Semi-Permanent Records
A new draft anti-terrorism plan requires data about telephone calls and emails to be retained for at least 12 months. You know, "just in case."
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Posted at 09:35 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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Playing Politics with PATRIOT
News.com on how election-year pressures are stamping out debate on PATRIOT expansion bills.
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Posted at 09:12 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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October 19, 2004
Chinese Company Trademarks "Happy Birthday"
"With increasingly fierce competition in the world toy market, the company realized the importance of branding." Whatever.
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Posted at 05:05 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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New Passports Will Broadcast Personal Data
The next generation of US passports will have embedded RFIDs, and new reports suggest that the information the chips broadcast won't be encrypted. That means anyone with an RFID reader will be able to passively scan you, pulling the most intimate personal data right out of your pocket. Unbelievable.
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Posted at 04:59 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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The Logic of E-voting Security
Ed Felten with a clear, accessible post on one kind of problem with Diebold's voting machine security.
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Posted at 09:59 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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Online Chat with Verizon's Counsel
The Washington Post hosts a chat with Sarah Deutsch, the rock star attorney who helped Verizon protect its customers' privacy from Big Content.
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Posted at 09:56 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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Indian Gov't Minister Advocates Balanced IP
He noted that "the main issue remains how to balance the interest of creator in the society and that of the need of the society at large in an optimum way in this digital environment."
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Posted at 09:54 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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"VoterGate" Hits the Internet Archive
The documentary on e-voting is available for free from the Internet archive.
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Posted at 09:51 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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New Scholarship Shows P2P Isn't Declining
According to the authors, P2P network traffic has not declined at all over the past three years - and that's not even taking into account the amount of encrypted traffic.
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Posted at 09:49 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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PopSci on E-voting
EFF's own Annalee Newitz with a feature on the problems with today's voting machines and how they should be addressed.
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Posted at 09:45 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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E-voting Suit in New Jersey
A coalition of NJ citizens and election officials wants the state to abandon e-voting before the upcoming election.
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Posted at 09:42 AM by Ren Bucholz |
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