January 09, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archive
January 11, 2005
Wish They All Could Be California Privacy Laws
Ryan Singel on how California had a pretty good year for privacy laws in 2004.
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Posted at 10:04 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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The Price of Surveillance, Measured in Pounds
The London Internet Exchange (LINX), a consortium of ISPs, argues that the cost of a proposed EU plan to mandate data retention would amount to a tax to support government snooping.
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Posted at 10:02 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Data Retention
Blogs Blow Up
32 million Americans read blogs in 2004, and 6 million use RSS aggregators. Neat!
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Posted at 09:55 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Free Culture
French Security Researcher Could Be Jailed for Finding Bugs
Guillaume Tena found and wrote about exploits in a piece of antivirus software, and its publisher has now initiated two lawsuits against the researcher. If found guilty, Tena could spend six months and jail and be fined almost a million euros.
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Posted at 09:53 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Free Speech
More On Why to Thank Poland
The controversial EU software patent directive was supposed to be rubber stamped, but Poland's opposition and a letter from 61 MEPs has thrown its future into (welcome) doubt.
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Posted at 09:50 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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International IP
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Patents
Verizon Blocks Email from UK, Parts of Europe
It would have been nice if they'd told their customers...
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Posted at 09:48 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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SPAM
CNN: The Most Trusted Name in Censorship
The news organization has sued several Internet sites for allowing users to translate CNN stories into Arabic. The sites provide automated translation engines like Altavista's BabelFish, but CNN has decided to only target operators in the Arab world.
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Posted at 09:15 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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LokiTorrents vs. Hollywood
One of the Internet's most popular BitTorrent sites has decided to raise money for its impending legal fight against the MPAA.
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Posted at 09:02 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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P2P
No Warrant Needed to Search Employee Computers
A Washington appeals court has ruled that employees don't have an expectation of privacy for material stored on a work computer.
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Posted at 08:58 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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RIAA Slapped Again for Ignoring Due Process
No more shotgun lawsuits: another appeals court has ruled that the RIAA must file individual "John Doe" lawsuits against alleged copyright infringers.
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Posted at 08:57 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Anonymity
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P2P
8th Circuit: VoIP Can't Be Regulated as Phone Service
This trend may help infant services like Vonage and Skype compete with monster telcos.
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Posted at 08:53 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Telecom Policy
Big Software Urges Congress to Regulate ISPs
Citing piracy, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has asked Congress to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to force Internet service providers to play the heavy for copyright holders.
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Posted at 08:43 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Bad Laws
The iTunes Made Me Do It
A California man is suing Apple Computer for using its monopoly power to force him to buy an iPod. It may sound farfetched as an antitrust claim, but it's a great example of how digital rights management (DRM) can coerce consumers into doing something they normally wouldn't.
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Posted at 08:39 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Unsigned, Sealed, Delivered
The Maine Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a case involving anonymous speech and an unflattering cartoon of a man, his wife, and their deceased St. Bernard.
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Posted at 08:34 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Free Culture
It's All Downhill from Here
The Boston Globe has short piece on our favorite agitprop group, Downhill Battle.
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Posted at 08:16 PM by Ren Bucholz |
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Activism
