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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Ted Bridis at the Associated Press reports that Friday’s rulings on the Microsoft case put on the Court’s website at 2:40 PM, about two hours before their official release. As…
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Fritz's Hit List #29
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: logic analyzers. These devices, which are standard equipment in electronics laboratories, record electrical signals in digital form, so they qualify for regulation as “digital media…
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Microsoft Decisions Tomorrow
Judge Kollar-Kotelly has announced that she will release her decisions in the Microsoft antitrust case tomorrow at 4:30 Eastern time.
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Intentia vs. Reuters: A (Slightly) Contrarian View
The recent dispute between Intentia and Reuters has gotten lots of online attention, most of it scornful of Intentia’s position. I think Intentia is wrong, but it’s a closer call…
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Fritz's Real Hit List
Seth Finkelstein suggests that I should reexamine my “Fritz’s Hit List” feature in light of the “leeway” concept. Seth says, in effect, that it is possible, or at least it…
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Fritz's Hit List #28
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: cockpit voice recorders. These devices, which are part of an airplane’s “black box,” record the sounds audible in an plane’s cockpit, for forensic use in…
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Microsoft Decision Upcoming?
We’re still waiting for Judge Kollar-Kotelly to rule on the two outstanding issues in the Microsoft antitrust case: whether to approve the settlement between Microsoft, the DOJ, and the settling…
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How Much Progress?
Dan Gillmor quotes Ray Kurzweil as saying that: The rate of change … is accelerating exponentially. We are “doubling the paradigm shift rate” on a constant basis. This century will…
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Too Stupid to Look the Other Way
David Weinberger explains the value of “leeway,” or small decisions not to enforce the rules in cases where enforcement wouldn’t be reasonable. Imagine that your mother were visiting your apartment,…
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Wiley's Super-Worm
Brandon Wiley writes about the possibility of a “super-worm” that would use sophisticated methods to infect a large fraction of Internet hosts, and to maintain and evolve the infection over…