Posted on January 31st, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
SOPA and PROTECT IP are dead… for now. (They’ll be back. COICA is like a wraith inhabiting PROTECT IP.) Until then, Michelle Schusterman has a terrific graphic about the movie industry’s predictions of doom with each new technological revolution. (Ditto the music industry: the player piano, radio, CDs, the MP3 player, etc., etc.) One reason [...]
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Filed under: Apple, Copyright, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Music, Politics, RIAA, Video
Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Guest post by Jane Yakowitz Now that the European Union’s member states are flailing around attempting to implement their miserable cookie directive, the European Commission has decided it’s a good time to retard the Internet some more. Today the European Commission will release an already-leaked new version of the Data Protection Directive which firmly establishes [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Corporate Law, First Amendment, Google, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Privacy
Posted on January 24th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Cybersecurity is in the news: a network intrusion allegedly interfered with railroad signals in the Northwest in December; the Obama administration refused to support the Stop Online Piracy Act due to worries about interfering with DNSSEC; and the GAO concluded that the Department of Homeland Security is making things worse by oversharing. So, I’m fortunate [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Computer crime, Encryption, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Minnesota, national security, NSA, Politics, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Software
Posted on January 24th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The Supreme Court handed down its decision in U.S. v. Jones yesterday, and the blogosphere is abuzz about the case. (See Margot Kaminski, Paul Ohm, Howard Wasserman, Tom Goldstein, and the terrifyingly prolific Orin Kerr.) The verdict was a clean sweep – 9-0 for Jones – but the case produced three opinions, including a duel [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Court Decisions, Politics, Privacy, Scholarship
Posted on January 21st, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
It may seem strange in a week where Megaupload’s owners were arrested and SOPA / PROTECT IP went under, but cybersecurity is the most important Internet issue out there. Examples? Chinese corporate espionage. Cyberweapons like Stuxnet. Anonymous DDOSing everyone from the Department of Justice to the RIAA. The Net is full of holes, and there [...]
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Filed under: badware, Computer crime, Digital Media, Encryption, Impersonation, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, Media, national security, NSA, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Software
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Today, you can’t get to The Oatmeal, or Dinosaur Comics, or XKCD, or (less importantly) Wikipedia. The sites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act, America’s attempt to censor the Internet to reduce copyright infringement. This is part of a remarkable, distributed, coordinated protest effort, both [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Thanks to Danielle and the CoOp crew for having me! I’m excited. Speaking of exciting developments, it appears that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is dead, at least for now. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has said that the bill will not move forward until there is a consensus position on it, which is to [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
On Saturday, January 7, at 8:30AM (yes, that’s early, bring coffee), I’ll be speaking on a panel on Governmental Transparency in the Digital Age, run by the National Security Section of the AALS. It’s in Delaware Suite B on the lobby level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. In addition to having painful flashbacks to [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, national security, Network Neutrality, Politics, RIAA, Scholarship, Security