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July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archive

July 20, 2005

Audio From Your One Stop DC Grokster Shop

Audio is now available from the Congressional Internet Caucus' meeting on Grokster, featuring our own Fred von Lohmann. News.com coverage here.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Derek Slater | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

July 19, 2005

Fisking Dvorak's Diss of Creative Commons

Magazine columnist publishes bizarre critique of Creative Commons rife with misunderstandings; blogger Joe Gratz comes to the rescue.
» link | Posted at 05:12 PM by Derek Slater | Permalink | Other Links: Free Culture

July 18, 2005

No Chmod a+r /dev/audio for You

A federal appeals court rules that a Las Vegas judge erred when he ordered a company to help the FBI eavesdrop on conversations in a suspect's vehicle using the car's "OnStar" cellphone audio.
» link | Posted at 03:41 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Surveillance

Place-Shifting Technology, Grokster, and the Broadcast Flag

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian talks about the careful path an innovative company has to tread these days.
» link | Posted at 03:40 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Broadcast Flag | DRM

Journalist Sacks Nanny for Being Too Personal on Private Blog, Gets Paid to Write About It for the NYT

Evidently it's not a sackable offense for the journalist to get personal.
» link | Posted at 03:40 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Free Speech