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When elephants dance
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Lawrence Lessig on dinosaurs taking over
Business Week online technology reporter Jane Black has a good interview with Lawrence Lessig covering Lessig’s concern about the entertainment industry’s power grab for control of the Internet....
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The case for dumb plumbing
Imagine if you paid for your home’s plumbing by the type of waste transported through the system. You’d pay one rate for solid waste, another rate for liquid, and yet another for any, um, mysterious...
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Harvard Internet law conference
During the first five days of July, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School held its Internet Law Program. San Jose Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor...
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The war against customers
[n.b.: This is a condensed version of an article originally published here, written at the request of, and is scheduled for publication in, spiked.] While the Copyright Act of 1790, Title 17, Chapter...
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RIAA feels its oats
Late last week, 13 record labels filed a federal lawsuit in New York, seeking a judicial order to force four major Internet backbone providers — AT&T, Cable and Wireless, Sprint, and UUNet — to...
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Gnomedex: Doc Searls
Doc is supposed to be speaking about the future of Linux, but he damn sure had a better time last night than I did. After all, he’s a former marketer and readily acknowledges he can’t turn down a...
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Internet too moral-free for News Corp. president
Last week Peter Chernin, president of News Corp., told attendees of the Progress & Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit that the Internet has become a “moral-free zone” full of pornography, spam, and...
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Apple says DVD burning okay only on its equipment
Steve Jobs’ infamous reality distortion field is a powerful thing. I almost get sucked into it on a semi-regular basis. My last Macintosh was a “WallStreet” PowerBook. I loved it, but it was pre-OS X...
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The coming copyright storm
With a fisted left hand, the entertainment industry pays BayTSP run by former black-hat cracker, Mark Ishikawa, up to US$50,000 per month to determine who is illegally copying protected works on the...
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Digital Choice and Freedom Act
Last week, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-California) introduced the Digital Choice and Freedom Act, proposed legislation that would amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to specifically...
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Technology Consumer Bill of Rights
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Representative Christopher Cox (R-California) have introduced legislation in both US congressional bodies that would protect the rights of consumers to use digital...
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Bad code in Washington
It’s midterm election day in America when some percentage of us — usually less than half — hold our noses and go to the polls. Hopefully by now you’ve taken the time to inform yourself and you’re...
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EFF and the doctrine of pre-emptive litigation
Call it the doctrine of pre-emptive litigation. EFF has filed a lawsuit against Diebold, Inc., the manufacturer of an electronic voting machine that is said to be “unverifiable.” When a citizen votes,...
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Republican staffers may have hacked Democrat computers
Senate Judiciary Committee Republican staffers have reportedly hacked into Democrat computers for more than a year, copying documents and passing them on to sympathetic corporate media hands. So says...
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DMCRA finally gets a hearing
Tomorrow, 12 May 2004, the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (DMCRA), H.R. 107, finally gets a hearing in front of the Trade, Commerce, and Consumer Protection subcommittee of the House Energy and...
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Fair use and the DMCA
Corporate copyright holders have taken to issuing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown orders with wild abandon. Such wild abandon, in fact, that they’ve begun to overstep legal bounds....
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Joe Biden: Wrong on both the net and tech
If you had any doubt that Barack Obama is a politician like any other, his selection of Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) should allay that doubt. Biden’s voting record on copyright, for example, is...
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The blotter: Week ending 28 February 2010
Business CitiBank blocked fabulis.com’s bank account for “objectionable content on their blog.” Fabulis.com appears to be setting up a rather innocuous travel portal for gay men. Censorship Iceland...
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Comes the internet and we still need the wine not the bottle
“We Need To Change Copyright Laws To Save Newspapers” by Eric Clemons and Nehal Madhani is so terribly misguided as to be laughable if it weren’t representative of the views of so many powerful...
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