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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Ernest Miller is on a roll over at LawMeme. His latest post asks why people treat HTTP (i.e., the web) and peer-to-peer systems so differently: P2P and http uploading and…
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Senate Commerce Testimony: Post-Mortem
Today I testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. The issue under discussion was whether (or how) the government should require the inclusion of DRM (anti-copying) technology in digital TV…
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Volokh and Solum Debate IP
Eugene Volokh and Lawrence Solum are having an interesting debate on the theory behind intellectual property. So far there have been four postings: Volokh’s initial posting, explaining via a clever…
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Senate Testimony
I’ll be testifying tomorrow morning at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on “Consumer Privacy and Government Technology Mandates in the Digital Media Marketplace.” The hearing is really about two topics:…
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A Virus Made Me Do It
According to press reports, an Alabama accountant has been acquitted on charges of tax evasion, after he argued that a computer virus had caused him to underreport his income three…
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More RIAA Suits to Come
Louis Trager at the Washington Internet Daily (no link; subscription only) reported yesterday that the RIAA is planning on filing hundreds of additional lawsuits against peer-to-peer users within the next…
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Why So Many Worms?
Many people have remarked on the recent flurry of worms and viruses going around on the Internet. Is this a trend, or just a random blip? A simple model predicts…
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Computers As Graders
One of my least favorite tasks as a professor is grading papers. So there’s good news – of a sort – in J. Greg Phelan’s New York Times article from…
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RIAA Files 261 Suits
The RIAA launched its long-awaited lawsuit storm today. John Borland at CNet news.com reports that 261 copyright infringement suits were filed against individual defendants. Several of the suits have already…
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P2P Porn
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that recording industry lobbyists are shocked, shocked to find porn on popular peer-to-peer networks. Naturally, they think P2P should be heavily regulated as a result.…