October 02, 2005 - October 08, 2005 Archive
October 06, 2005
It's Hand Over Your Details to the Feds and Airlines Day
From now on, foreign and domestic travel agencies have to collect and hand over passenger information to the US government.
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Privacy
Music Labels Too Costly for Microsoft
Either the music labels don't want Gates in their market, or they're delusional about how much they can charge for subscription services. Conceivably, it's both.
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Dolphins Sing "Batman" Theme
Can animals infringe, or does cuteness merit a special fair use exemption?
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Napster: The Inside Story
How the recording industry blew years of revenue suing Napster.
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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P2P
Most Monitors Won't Play New HD Video
The Washington Post catches on to HDCP and the DRM-crippled "features" of Microsoft Vista.
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
October 05, 2005
Public Knowledge - Policy Blog
Our beltway buddy Public Knowledge blogs what's going down in the Washington digital rights scene.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Activism
Lessig to Speak on Free Wi-Fi
EFF Board Member Lawrence Lessig looks into the implications of muni wi-fi in San Francisco on October 10th.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Declaration of InDRMpendence
ZDNet's David Berlind has had enough of purposely crippled technology.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Throwing the Book Right Back At You
An RIAA defendant in Oregon counter-sues with pretty much every law in the book.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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P2P
Anything You Can Scan I Can Scan Better
Yahoo and Google engage in a virtuous battle to digitize libraries and the public domain.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Customize Google with Firefox Extension
An open source, anonymizing remixer for the Google site.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Misc.
Who Owns Barbie?
A mainstream article providing an overview of what happens when fans and artists make use of characters and images corporations control.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Duke Podcasting Symposium
EFF's own Jason Schultz spars with the RIAA in the "Law and Policy Panel Discussion" at Duke's recent podcasting symposium.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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I Like First Mondays
The academic webzine puts together an anthology of open source thinkers.
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Posted at 01:10 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Culture
