July 02, 2006 - July 08, 2006 Archive
July 07, 2006
ABC Adman: Let's Block Ad-Skipping
ABC wants to get cable companies to disable ad-skipping in their DVR packages. And these people want a say in how new technology is implemented.
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Posted at 11:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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File Sharing From a Musician's Point of View
Subtle and fascinating insight from a professional musician, Will Sheff, who used to work for Audiogalaxy.
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Posted at 11:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Why You Don't Need Quality-of-Service
Dan Bricklin explains why the QoS argument against net neutrality does not apply.
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Posted at 11:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
July 06, 2006
Will AOL Drop Subscription Charges?
AOL will be looking for other revenue sources -- including certified mail senders -- if AOL CEO's proposal to drop subscription fees is put in place
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Posted at 04:13 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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SPAM
Schneier and Others on the Security of Voting Systems
The Brennan Center runs a threat analysis on US voting systems, concluding that many "have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities."
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Posted at 04:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Can't Compete With Ownership
Restrictions on use are one of the reasons services like Napster are stumbling in attracting college students. Bill Patry comments on a WSJ article.
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Posted at 04:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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July 05, 2006
EFF Legal Director in Law Journal's Most Influential Lawyers in America
Cindy Cohn is "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online."
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Will Bono Sign Against DRM?
FSF's Defective by Design campaign aims a petition at Bono's conscience.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
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A Year After Grokster, File Sharing More Popular Than Ever
Shutting down peer-to-peer networks was like taking a half-course of antibiotics every six months.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Guns Don't Kill People - At Least Not Without A Valid EULA
Bruce Schneier describes a patent covering access control for bullets.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Rio Declaration on DRM
Attendees of the iCommons summit call for exceptions to anti-circumvention laws.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Government Accountability Office Leaks Personal Info
Unaccountably.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
Did AT&T's Assistance With Domestic Wiretaps Precede 9/11?
Bloomberg reports on claims the NSA asked AT&T Inc. to set up a domestic call monitoring site in June 2000.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bypassing the Great Firewall By Pretending It's not There
Richard Clayton shows how Chinese censorship systems can be simply ignored.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Speech
AP on EFF
The Associated Press reviews our last 0x10 years.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Recording Industry Goes International
Sues Yahoo China, seeks out AllofMP3.com in, of all places, the British courts.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
Google Lists "Privacy Concerns" as Threat to Future Profitability
Its 10-Q statement includes the worry between proprietary document formats, spammers, and clickfraud.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bruce Perens on Software Patents: Told You So
We've warned you for a decade. Now the monster has finally arrived: attacks against Open Source developers by patent holders, big and small.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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ISPs to Scan all Mail, Match Attachments with Hash Database
It all starts with child pornography.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Extended Range RFID Skimmer for less than $100
Snoop on RFIDs from 25cm, over double the official distance.
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Posted at 04:55 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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EFF in Business 2.0's People Who Matter
Next time we'll beat Oprah...
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Posted at 04:31 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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