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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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.…
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RIAA to Grant Semi-Amnesty
The RIAA is reportedly planning to offer amnesty to file sharers. According to the reports, just after the RIAA launches its upcoming flurry of lawsuits against file sharers, it will…
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Ruling in Garage-Door-Opener Case
An important ruling was issued yesterday in the Chamberlain v. Skylink lawsuit. (See this previous post for a summary of the case.) The court denied Chamberlain’s motion for summary judgment.…
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Hacking, by Subpoena
James Grimmelmann at LawMeme explains a recent opinion by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that a party that used an obviously improper subpoena to get information from a…
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The Scopes Trial, Revisited
This week, the Economist ran an odd piece comparing the SCO/IBM dispute to the Scopes “Monkey Trial.” SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced “skoh”,…
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Software Customer Bill of Rights
Cem Kaner has written a Software Customer Bill of Rights. His general approach is to require that customers have roughly the same rights when they buy software as when they…
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Business Week Interview
Business Week Online is running an interview with me, done by reporter Heather Green.
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Comments
I’m thinking about turning on the Comments feature, so that readers can react to my postings right here on the site. So far I haven’t allowed comments, because I prefer…
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Trade Secrets and Free Speech
Yesterday the California Supreme Court issued its ruling in DVDCCA v. Bunner, a case pitting trade secrets against freedom of speech. The court ruled that an injunction against disclosure of…
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It's Ten O'Clock. Do You Know What Your Computer is Doing?
Last week saw a scary story about a British man who was acquitted of the charge of possessing child pr0n. [Deliberate misspelling to keep dumb censorware tools from blocking this…