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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One of the trendy ideas these days is challenge-response (CR) anti-spam technologies. The idea is simple: incoming email is intercepted before you see it, and a “challenge” email is returned…
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Kerr on Cybercrime Laws
Orin Kerr has written an.interesting paper, “Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting ‘Access’ and ‘Authorization’ in Computer Misuse Statutes,” in which he argues for a new way of understanding the prohibition, in the…
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Super-DMCA Update (Texas)
The Texas version of the Super-DMCA has been passed by the relevant committees in both the state House and Senate. It will probably come to a vote in the Senate…
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iLoo: Joke, Blunder, or Both?
Business Week reports on the saga of iLoo, the Internet-enabled portable toilet announced last week by a British subsidiary of Microsoft. Microsoft is now claiming that this was just an…
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New Media: Success or Failure?
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…