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May 28, 2006 - June 03, 2006 Archive

May 31, 2006

Forty-eight Million Americans Have Created Net Content

That's over a third of the US Internet-using population.

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RIAA Honchos Interviewed

Feel good about prosecuting grandmothers, optimistic about making radio receivers illegal.

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Gonzales Says ISP Logging Needed in War Against Terrorism

"'We want this for terrorism,' Gonzales said, according to one person familiar with the discussion."

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Dutch Music-Lovers Get Caught in DRM's Ratchet

David Berlind hears about the decreasing rights of the customers of a european music download service.

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"The Generative Internet" by Jonathan Zittrain

Or, the future of the Internet and how to save it; Zittrain's take on the open PC-Internet "grid," and the emerging (inevitable?) backlash.

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Send Your Mail to the Australian Government With Just One Click

A commendable trust in people's ability to not game (or accidentally submit incriminating data) to a government-run spam blacklist.

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IBM Exploits Data Retention Laws

Sold to corporations in the U.S. for HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but capable of far more -- IBM sees a bright future for the 56Tb "TotalStorage Data Retention 450."

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May 29, 2006

Verizon Refuses to Come Clean About Wiretapping

Neither yay nor nay -- just a claim of extreme secrecy.

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A Catalog of Features Lost in iTunes Upgrades

A sadly ongoing project.

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Intellectual Property in the Southern Hemisphere

A dossier of case-studies and analysis looks at maximalist IP and its effects outside the West.

» link | Posted at 02:56 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: International IP

FCC Says Telco Wiretapping Too Secret to Investigate

The FCC Chief, Kevin Martin, says classified nature of project makes it impossible for FCC to look into AT&T and other telcos' complicity.

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MPAA Accused of Hiring Hacker

Did the MPAA hire a black hat hacker to get info on Torrentspy.com?

» link | Posted at 02:56 PM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: P2P

Congress Duped By Fake "Terrorist" Game Video

Sound samples of the "Team America" satire pasted over standard EA game footage has Washington shocked and awed.

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Senate Bill Attacks Digital Devices, VoIP

A grim summary of the Senate telecom reform bill.

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Chicago School Pledge Against Free Speech

Students are obliged to limit their blogging if engaging in extracurricular school activities.

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Apple v. Does in Bits and Pieces

Howell's blow-by-blow summary of the Apple v. Does case.