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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I have written before about the danger posed by the Super-DMCA’s ban on concealing the origin or destination of communication. I want to turn your attention now to a much…
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Reports from Today's Massachusetts Super-DMCA Hearing
A Massachusetts legislative committee held a hearing today about their super-DMCA bill. By all reports, the committee got the message loud and clear about the drawbacks of the bill. John…
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ABA Group Tries to Understand WiFi
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing discusses an amazing document in which an American Bar Association panel lays out their view of the future of WiFi. High-order cluelessness pervades.
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MPAA Circulating Model Super-DMCA Legislation
The Super-DMCA bills are based on model legislation that has been circulated by the MPAA. I now have the text of the model legislation (Word format; PDF), along with a…
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Colorado Super-DMCA Delayed
The Colorado Senate’s consideration of their Super-DMCA bill, originally scheduled for yesterday, has now been deferred until April 7. There is some indication this may have been due to calls…
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Important New Internet Standard
Internet security guru Steve Bellovin proposed today an important new Internet standard, RFC 3514, which creates a new “evil bit” in Internet Protocol packet headers. The evil bit is required…
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Super-DMCA Already Law in Several States
Louis Trager at the Washington Internet Daily reports that Super-DMCA bills have already passed in several states: The low-profile lobbying effort was under way about 2 years before it burst…
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Intent and the Super-DMCAs
Most of the reponses to my super-DMCA postings have been supportive, but a few people have disagreed. Some of the disagreements say, essentially, that there is no problem, because the…
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NYT on Concealing Origin of Communications
Thursday’s New York Times ran an article by Thomas J. Fitzgerald about how to protect your privacy on-line. Here is an excerpt: The tools and techniques that can be used…
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Super-DMCA Page Available
I have created a page at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html with information about the state Super-DMCA bills and laws. I will update the page with status information as it comes in, and later…