Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The net neutrality fight is on, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal for new rules moved on to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now, the two sides are digging in: AT&T, telcos, and unions on one side; Google and content providers on the other.
I tend to favor protecting end-to-end in the Internet context, but I’m [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Privacy, Software, Spam, VoIP, badware
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by William McGeveran
New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski threw down the network neutrality gauntlet in a speech today [PDF] [HTML] at the Brookings Institution, announcing his intention to start a formal process that would result in adoption of binding regulations. [There is good news and blog coverage from AP, Wired, and Washington Post.] His proposal would turn [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
As you know, Joel Tenenbaum lost against the RIAA and is now on the hook for $675,000, pending a hearing on the constitutionality of those damages. Several lawyers I’ve talked with have suggested that Judge Nancy Gertner, who presided over the trial, committed reversible error by issuing a directed verdict on the question of infringement. [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Music, RIAA
Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Update [31 July 6:50PM]: $22,500 per work; $675,000 total. More than I expected. Props to Wendy Seltzer and Mark Lemley for the update. Link is to Ben Sheffner’s write-up in Ars Technica…
The judge in the copyright infringement lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum has issued a directed verdict on the issue of infringement liability. The only remaining [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Yep, it’s all Section 230, all the time here at Info/Law! Makes for a nice change from filtering. Mickey Kaus writes about the threat by Sarah Palin’s attorney to sue anyone defaming her, and also those who republish such defamation. He’s astonished to learn that Section 230 could shield him and other bloggers. (I’d presume [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
One beneficial side effect of Internet filtering is that it points up quirks in how countries make content decisions: what’s blacklisted, and why? The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australia’s proposed Internet censorship system (currently in its second phase of testing) will block access to on-line and downloadable games that aren’t MA-15 or milder. This [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Nope, not a post about the World Cup – these are three countries that have been in the news for government-mandated Internet censorship. It’s a bit weird to see that grouping, but as I’ve argued elsewhere, filtering is becoming ubiquitous – no longer limited to “bad states” like Burma.
In Germany, the major parties in Parliament [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The Washington Post covers a letter by security researchers and academics urging Google to adopt encryption (HTTPS) as the default for all of its services. (Disclosure: I signed the letter.) The letter makes the case convincingly:
Google uses industry-standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) encryption technology to protect customers’ login information. However, encryption is not enabled [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Digital Media, Encryption, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Privacy, Security, badware
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety has withdrawn its effort to compel the state’s ISPs to filter ~200 gambling Web sites, in the face of a lawsuit filed by iMEGA. State officials are maintaining a brave (poker) face, along with some bad analogies – they claim not to have “folded their hand.” John Willems – the [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
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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