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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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 November 17th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Yesterday, the House of Representatives held hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act (it’s being called SOPA, but I like E-PARASITE tons better). There’s been a lot of good coverage in the media and on the blogs. Jason Mazzone had a great piece in TorrentFreak about SOPA, and see also stories about how the bill [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
The House of Representatives is considering the disturbingly-named E-PARASITE Act. The bill, which is intended to curb copyright infringment on-line, is similar to the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act, but much much worse. It’s as though George Lucas came out with the director’s cut of “The Phantom Menace,” but added in another half-hour of Jar Jar [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Major League Baseball has made me a pirate, with no regrets. Nick Ross, on Australia’s ABC, makes “The Case for Piracy.” His article argues that piracy often results, essentially, from market failure: customers are willing to pay content owners for access to material, and the content owners refuse – because they can’t be bothered to [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Mark Lemley has a smart editorial up at Law.com on the hearings at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Viacom v. YouTube. The question is, formally, one of interpreting Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512), and determining whether YouTube meets the statutory requirements for immunity from liability. But this [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
I had a fun podcast interview with Spencer Mazyck of Bloomberg Law about this summer’s wave of hacking. We talk about who hacks and why, what companies can do about it (treat it like disaster planning), and whether we need to worry about cyberwar. Good fun. I botched the story about Robert Mueller slightly: he [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, badware, Computer crime, Digital Media, Google, Internet & Society, Media, national security, Privacy, Security, Software, Video
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Eric Goldman points to a highly enjoyable filing by one David Stebbins against Google, claiming he has won an arbitration award of, wait for it, $500 billion. Even with the tax cuts still in effect, I assume that the government’s cut of this award will help the deficit a good deal. How did Stebbins win [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
Saturday Night Live has a great skit on Julian Assange. Any bit that includes the phrase “good-natured birds” has to be awesome, and it is. (Hat tip: Jen Schwartz, who knows her cybersecurity.)
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
An impressive fake video is making the rounds of the Internet; it purportedly shows a French government official announcing that the Republic would repay the enormous sum Haiti sent to France in exchange for independence in 1803. The video is hosted at http://www.diplomatiegov.fr/, a domain name very similar to the French Foreign Ministry site, which is [...]
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