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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Sorry for the outage yesterday. A Slashdot item about Fritz’s Hit List drove enough traffic here to use up our full bandwidth allocation for the month. I’ve put another quarter…
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Fritz's Hit List #9
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: digital hearing aids. These hearing aids receive, process, and retransmit audio in digital form, so they qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the…
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"Digital Media Device" Definition from the Hollings CBDTPA
Several readers have asked me to post the precise definition of “digital media device” from the Hollings CBDTPA. Here it is: DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICE. – The term “digital media device”…
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Fritz's Hit List #8
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the TinkleToonz Musical Potty. This handy toilet training aid offers a “magical, musical land of potty training,” by playing a tune whenever liquid is deposited…
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Technology: Unknown or Unknowable?
I’ve been reading what various Washington people are saying about the Berman-Coble peer-to-peer hacking bill. Many people agree that if the bill is passed, a sort of arms race will…
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Fritz's Hit List #7
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the Shop With Me Barbie toy cash register. This product, which plays digital audio, qualifies for regulation as a “digital media device” under the Hollings…
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Fritz's Hit List #6
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: digital answering machines (like this one). These products, which record and replay digital audio, qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the Hollings CBDTPA.…
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What Hollywood Wants to Do To P2P Users
The written version of Randy Saaf’s testimony at yesterday’s Berman-Coble hearings is now available. It is longer than his oral statement and answers a key technical question. Saaf runs a…
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Sprigman on Reverse Engineering and Licenses
Interesting legal commentary by Chris Sprigman at FindLaw, on the legal status of reverse engineering in relation to software licenses. [link credit: FurdLog]
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Fritz's Hit List #5
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the Sony Aibo robot dog. This product, which sends, receives, and digitally processes audio, qualifies for regulation as a “digital media device” under the Hollings…