CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Here’s a quick quiz to detect whether you’re stuck in Washington groupthink. There’s a patent reform bill under consideration in Congress. According to a blog entry by Andrew Noyes at…
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Staying Off the Regulatory Radar
I just returned from a tech policy conference. It was off the record so I can’t tell you about what was said. But I can tell you that it got…
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Apple's File Labeling: An Effective Anticopying Tool?
Recently it was revealed that Apple’s new DRM-free iTunes tracks come with the buyer’s name encoded in their headers. Randy Picker suggested that this might be designed to deter copying…
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Why So Much Attention to "What's a Website?" Judge?
One of the benefits of talking to the press is that reporters often ask thought-provoking questions. Recently Noam Cohen, a New York Times columnist, called and asked me why the…
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The Slingbox Pro: Information Leakage and Variable Bitrate (VBR) Fingerprints
[Today’s guest blogger is Yoshi Kohno, a Computer Science prof at University of Washington who has done interesting work on security and privacy topics including e-voting. – Ed] If you…
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Finnish Court: Okay to Circumvent DVD DRM
A court in Finland ruled last week that it is not a violation of that nation’s anticircumvention law to circumvent CSS, the copy protection system in DVDs. Mikko Välimäki, one…
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Newsweek Ranks Schools; Monkey High Still Tops
Newsweek has once again issued its list of America’s Best High Schools. They’re using the same goofy formula as before: the number of students from a school who show up…
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What's the Biggest Impact of IT on Copyright?
On Saturday I gave a talk (“Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media”) for a Princeton alumni group in Seattle. The theme of the…
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AACS Updated, Broken Again
[Other posts in this series] We predicted in past posts that AACS, the encryption system intended to protect HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies, would suffer a gradual meltdown from its inability…
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If It's Not Snake Oil, It's Pretty Awesome (Part 2)
Four years ago I wrote about a company called Music Public Broadcasting: In today’s Los Angeles Times, Jon Healey writes about a new DRM proposal from a company called Music…