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August 21, 2005 - August 27, 2005 Archive

August 25, 2005

Web Fame, Chinese Style

How the Chinese authorities are failing to censor an online celebrity.
» link | Posted at 06:22 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: International IP

Snooping con Tutti

How lax wiretapping controls in Italy make hundreds of private conversations public knowledge.
» link | Posted at 06:22 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

High-Tech Hot Spots

Copyfighters Nelson Pavlosky and Siva Vaidhyanathan go mainstream in Newsweek's look at the increasing tech smarts of college students.
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Misc.

An Illustrated Guide to IPSec

Today's visual brain-stretcher: a pictorial guide to IPSec, the secure standard for IP.
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Misc.

Should We Have a DMCA? Australia Decides.

The consultation on anti-circumvention Down Under begins. Get your comments in now!
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: International IP

The Rise of CALEA

MIT Tech Review looks at the trouble with trying to tap the distributed Net.
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Bad Laws

Grokking the 'Ster

IPTA blog spots two cites of the Grokster ruling in current court judgements.
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

Michael Geist - Canada's Big Brother Plan to Reshape the Internet

Geist looks at Canada's new wiretapping proposals.
» link | Posted at 06:21 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Bad Laws

August 23, 2005

Thomas Congressional Database to Be Revamped

All kinds of rumored new features. Only one thing is for sure: it's going to break all those web-scraping programs.
» link | Posted at 11:16 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Misc.

The Web of Law

Legal cites have the same scale-free network topology as scientific papers, the Web, and that dumb social-networking site you joined once.
» link | Posted at 11:16 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Misc.

The Section 108 Study Group

The Library of Congress has convened a group of experts to deliberate on the future of copyright exemptions for libraries and archives. There have certainly been easier gigs.
» link | Posted at 11:16 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright

Customers of New UK ISP Get to Share all the Sony Music They Want

And the artists get paid. What an excellent idea!
» link | Posted at 11:16 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: P2P