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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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…
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NYT: Software Diverts Referral Commissions
Today’s NYT discusses software that horns in on referral commissions (like those from Amazon’s affiliates program) meant for others. Based on the article’s description, it looks like the software lurks…