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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Mary Hodder at bIPlog points to Steve Lohr’s odd piece, “New Media: Ready for the Dustbin of History?” in Sunday’s New York Times. Mary argues that Lohr’s thesis – that…
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Declan on Spam
Don’t miss Declan McCullagh’s column this week, in which he offers a particularly astute view of how to address the spam problem. In a nutshell, he argues that we need…
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Reputation
Big copyright owners have apparently had some degree of success in their efforts to flood file-sharing networks with decoy files, thereby frustrating users’ attempts to find copyrighted works. Conventional wisdom…
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Trade Agreement
Donna Wentworth at Copyfight reports that the U.S. has signed a trade agreement with Singapore that requires the U.S. to refrain from repealing the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium…
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RIAA Hackathon Not Likely
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s much-discussed article in Saturday’s New York Times details planning by the record industry to launch aggressive cyber-attacks against suspected copyright infringers. Some of the world’s biggest record…
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RIAA-Student Lawsuits Settle
The RIAA has settled its lawsuits against four college students, dropping the suits in exchange for a payment of between $12,000 and $17,500 from each student. The settlements did not…
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Copyright Factions
Eric Rescorla, in response to my previous entry on music economics, offers an analysis of the politics of copyright. Roughly speaking, there are two camps working to loosen (or at…
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RIAA-Student Suits to Be Settled?
In today’s Daily Princetonian, Josh Brodie reports that an “announcement” will be probably made today regarding the RIAA lawsuit against Princeton student Dan Peng. Reading between the lines, it appears…
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RIAA IM-Spams Kazaa/Grokster Users
Many reports are circulating about the RIAA’s use of instant-messaging features of Kazaa and Grokster to send warning messsages yesterday to users of those systems. Conventional wisdom in blogland seems…
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Where the Money Goes
Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy points to Terry Fisher’s data on where the $18 paid for a typical music CD goes: $7.00 to the retailer, $1.50 to the distributor,…