Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The first rule of censorship conferences is… do not talk about censorship conferences. Ignoring that, I encourage you to tune in to Yale’s Global Censorship Conference – it is an awesome group of speakers and topics. You can catch the livestream here. For those of you willing to get up on Sunday morning, you can [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Books, Encryption, Filtering, First Amendment, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Scholarship, Social Networking, Video
Posted on November 21st, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
In the wake of credible allegations of hacking of a water utility, including physical damage, attention has turned to software security weaknesses. One might think that we’d want independent experts – call them whistleblowers, busticati, or hackers – out there testing, and reporting, important software bugs. But it turns out that overblown cease-and-desist letters still [...]
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Filed under: badware, Berkman, Computer crime, Copyright, Corporate Law, Education & Copyright, national security, Scholarship, Security, Software
Posted on July 20th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Oliver Day and I presented the idea behind our article The Hacker’s Aegis (now available from Emory Law Journal – the cite, for law nerds, is 60 Emory L.J. 1051 (2011)) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School yesterday. The Webcast of the talk should be available soon. We had [...]
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Filed under: badware, Berkman, Computer crime, Copyright, Court Decisions, Law School, Microsoft, national security, Open Access, Patents, Peer Production, Scholarship, Security, Software
Posted on June 25th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Oliver Day and I are giving a talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School (our former home) on our proposed shield law to protect software security research. (The longer version is in our Emory Law Journal article.) The talk is on Tuesday, July 19, at 12:30PM, and it’ll be [...]
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Filed under: badware, Berkman, Computer crime, Encryption, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Microsoft, Scholarship, Software
Posted on June 5th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
It’s Alliteration Monday here at Info/Law! Ars Technica has a great write-up on the Mac Defender malware that’s been infecting hipsters‘ MacBooks left and right. Apple started by ignoring the problem, and has subsequently woken up and started to use features such as File Quarantine to deal with it. Belated, but laudable. I have three [...]
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Filed under: Apple, badware, Berkman, Computer crime, Digital Media, Encryption, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Open Access, Open Standards, Scholarship, Security, Software
Posted on May 13th, 2011 by William McGeveran
If you are looking for a fascinating and enlightening time-suck (and my fellow academics now grading final exams, I am looking at you), then I have just the thing for you. The Berkman Center recently relaunched Media Cloud. The site describes it as “an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer quantitative [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Media
Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Last night, Egypt severed its connections with the wider Internet. (Coverage from the New York Times and Global Voices, for example, and see coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks.) There are at least two worrisome implications of this move. First, Egyptian protesters are using the Net to coordinate, and to keep in touch [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Media, Security, Social Networking
Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
(Via JZ) BoingBoing has a neat, infuriating post about a ridiculous takedown threat they received over a post about autism. The threat-0-gram is from The Academic Advantage, by way of their personal injury legal wizards (Lazar, Akiva, & Yagoubzadeh). There are two great things about this. First, the BoingBoing post isn’t even about Academic Advantage: [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, civil procedure, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Media, Scholarship, Search Engines
Posted on January 15th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
There is such thing as Law of the Horse. Lessig 1, Easterbrook 0!
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Filed under: Berkman, Books, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on July 11th, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
I’ve been thinking about the implications of Judge Gertner’s ruling in Sony v. Tenenbaum, and have had the good fortune to discuss it with copyright expert Thinh Nguyen. One unexpected effect of the decision, I believe, will be to increase the cost of copyright litigation, perhaps significantly. Judge Gertner employs the Supreme Court’s Due Process [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Music, RIAA