Sony Pushes the Envelope
Orin Kerr eviscerates Sony’s legal maneuvers against the people who broke the PS3’s encryption: I realize the complaint characterizes the defendants as hackers, and the CFAA is supposed to be… Read more »
Category: Intellectual Property
The FBI Wants to Monitor Your Web Browsing
Declan McCullagh has a detailed analysis of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s recent Congressional testimony in which he asked for greatly expanded surveillance powers. Currently the FBI has the technical ability… Read more »
E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats
Problem: the voting machines report numbers that don’t add up. Attempted solution: local authorites commision an independent audit of the machines to determine the source of the problem. Checkmate: the… Read more »
Comcast Packet Forgery
The latest flap about “net neutrality” started with a test by the Associated Press which found evidence that Comcast is slowing BitTorrent traffic over its network. If this were really… Read more »
How DRM Becomes Law
If you have a strong stomach check out this article: Information Week: A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law Cory Doctorow gives an eyewitness account of how the entertainment… Read more »
The Opt-Out Constitution
Ed Foster posts a preliminary draft of The Opt-Out Constitution. You only think it’s an April Fools joke.
Lawrence Lessig on Orphaned Works
Few people have given more thought than Lawrence Lessig to the problems created by America’s ever-expanding copyright laws. Here he provides a detailed presentation on the problem of orphaned works… Read more »