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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From today through Wednesday, I’ll be at the PFIR Internet Meltdown conference. I’ll post reports on the conference here.
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Induce Act Hearing Video
If you missed yesterday’s Senate hearing on the proposed Induce Act, you can check out the video, thanks to Thomas Barger. (As a bonus, he also offers a video of…
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Induce Act Hearing Webcast, Live Discussion
Today’s Senate hearing on the Induce Act will be webcast (link) at 2:00 PM Eastern time. Anybody who is listening to the webcast is invited to discuss the hearing while…
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Vadasz Attacks INDUCE Act
An op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, by recently retired Intel VP Les Vadasz, urges the Senate to reject the INDUCE Act. News junkies may remember Vadasz’s testimony against the…
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MS to Sue Linux over Patents?
A two-year-old internal memo from Hewlett-Packard predicted that Microsoft would soon launch patent-infringement suits against companies that distribute open-source products such as Linux and Apache, according to a Joe Barr…
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Software That Lasts 200 Years
Dan Bricklin has a provocative new essay arguing that at least some software should be built to last for a long time, perhaps as long as 200 years. We need…
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In Search of Cool Stuff
In mid-August I’m going to a small technical workshop that has a “cool stuff” session, where everybody is invited to demonstrate or explain to the group something cool. It doesn’t…
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Inducing You to Read Ernest Miller
Ernest Miller is on a roll lately, especially on the topic of the INCUDE/IICA Act. I would be saying more about this dangerous bill, but Ernie is saying most of…
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Audible Magic, Revealed
Chris Palmer at the EFF published a piece this week debunking the Audible Magic technology. He focuses on the CopySense technology. Audible Magic’s CopySense
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Industries to Form Yet Another DRM Consortium
A group of large movie and technology companies is about to form yet another consortium to solve the digital copyright problem, according to a John Borland story at news.com. This…