Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
Swedish police today raided several sites where servers suspected of being used in file-sharing were located, seizing several computers, including one allegedly belonging to a pro-piracy advocacy organization, and arresting three people in their 20s. (A page summarizing the raid is now posted at the target site’s URL, piratebay.org.) Pirate Bay claimed to be the [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, RIAA
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Derek Bambauer
The Brennan Center for Justice, located at NYU’s law school, put out a report on Internet filtering in U.S. schools and libraries. The study is essentially a literature review; it collects and summarizes most analyses of the effectiveness and errors of filtering software (such as NetNanny or SmartFilter) employed in response to the Children’s Internet [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by William McGeveran
Update: Bignami has now posted on the ECJ’s airline records decision. In a recent guest post at Concurring Opinions, privacy expert Francesca Bignami argued that the NSA’s obtention of domestic telephone records would not be allowed under European privacy law. In addition to being an interesting comparative law analysis, Bignami pointed out another consequence of [...]
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Filed under: NSA, Privacy