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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John Schwartz at the New York Times reports on a blockbuster piece of research by cryptographer Matt Blaze. Matt applied the principles of cryptography to good old fashioned door locks…
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Copyright and Rhetoric
In a much-acclaimed blog posting, Doc Searls writes that the limited-copyright folks are losing the rhetorical battle to the copyright expansionists. I believe Hollywood won because they have successfully repositioned…
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Court Orders Verizon to Reveal Customer's Identity
U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates has ordered Verizon to turn over to the RIAA the identity of a Verizon customer who allegedly used Verizon’s ISP service to infringe…
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More on Court Tossing No-Reviews EULA Clause
The EFF has posted a copy of the New York state court’s ruling in the Network Associates case that I wrote about previously. The court’s ruling makes three main points.…
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RIAA: ISPs Should Pay For File Sharing
A Reuters story quotes RIAA head Hilary Rosen as saying that ISPs should be held responsible for their users’ file sharing: “We will hold ISPs more accountable,” said Hillary Rosen,…
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Court Throws Out No-Reviews Clause in EULA
A court has thrown out a software contract clause prohibiting customers from publishing reviews of a product, report Matt Richtel at the New York Times and Lisa Bowman at CNet.…
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Siva's Multimedia Blitz
Siva Vaidhyanathan offers a post-Eldred perspective over at Salon. He’s on television tonight too, talking about copyright, on “NOW with Bill Moyers,” airing on most PBS stations at 9:00 PM.…
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Eldred Loses
The Supreme Court has ruled in the Eldred case, upholding the copyright term extension by a 7-2 vote. More later, once I get a chance to read the opinions. majority…
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When is a Mandate Not a Mandate?
The conventional wisdom is that yesterday’s deal between the RIAA and tech companies includes an agreement to oppose government mandates of DRM such as the Hollings CBDTPA. But look at…
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When Is a Regulation Not a Regulation?
Often, when people say they oppose regulation, what they really mean is that they like the regulation we already have and don’t want it changed. By implicitly defining “regulation” to…