My former ONI colleague Rafal Rohozinski, now of Information Warfare Monitor, has a great interview where he discusses methodology and findings for both projects. Well worth a read!
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, NSA, Privacy, Security, badware, international, national security
The guns in RIAA v. Tenenbaum have gone temporarily silent; now, there’s post-game analysis and preparations for the next phase: challenging the jury’s award of $675,000 in damages ($22,500 per song, at 30 songs). Ben Sheffner’s Billboard column gives a great summary of the fight. Tenenbaum’s side will claim that the Copyright Act’s statutory damages [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Music, RIAA, Scholarship, civil procedure
Copyrights and Campaigns has the breaking story. Wow. My initial take is that the outcome is correct – fair use just doesn’t cover what Tenenbaum did – but I need to read the summary judgment order for a more thoughtful analysis. This is fascinating stuff.
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Iranian demonstrators protesting the recent election results (which look dicey) – and their opponents – are using networked technologies to communicate and organize, including Twitter, blogs, SMS, and the like. John Palfrey, Rob Faris, and Bruce Etling point out, though, that these capabilities, while empowering, won’t carry the day. Whether the demonstrations succeed depends on [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Scholarship, Social Networking, Software, Video, Voting, international
I’m in scenic Boulder, CO for this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing. John Palfrey is delivering this morning’s keynote. He’s the perfect choice for the CALI crowd, a group that straddles legal academia, law libraries, and information technology. Palfrey’s well regarded in all three of those camps and it’ll be great to hear [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production
Great panel on filtering at CFP 2009 yesterday – we took up the question of whether John Gilmore is still right in that the “Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Ian Brown talked about Cleanfeed and how filtering operates, from the most basic to the most sophisticated. TJ McIntyre described the bizarre [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Search Engines, international
Hot on the heels of Bill’s new trademark piece, I’m happy to announce that my new article on the DMCA, which has been available in electronic form for quite a while, is now available in ink-and-pulp format as well, 74 Brook. L. Rev. 1 (2008). As of this writing, it hasn’t yet been posted on [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Scholarship
A coalition of investors anchored by the New York City pension funds has filed resolutions for consideration at the 2009 annual shareholder meetings of major internet service providers, seeking more information about their network management practices and impacts on customer’s privacy and free expression. In particular, the group wants to know more about deep packet [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Privacy
[Update 22 Dec. 2008, 3:30PM: Apparently the site is, once again, available. Again, it's hard to tell if China's Internet censors reversed themselves, or corrected a mistake, or simply wanted to remind the Times that access to China's users is not automatic (pour encourager les autres, as Voltaire wrote).]
Expats will despair: the New York Times [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, international
[Update Oct. 3 5:45PM - Skype's president responds, and says Skype was unaware of TOM's monitoring. But this is why tech firms partner with domestic Chinese firms: to handle uncomfortable requests such as filtering and surveillance... (via Wired)]
The New York Times reports on some terrific research done by my former ONI colleague Nart Villeneuve – [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Encryption, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Software, international
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