Tag: Technology and Freedom
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Lessig, DRM, and Palladium
As I noted yesterday, Lessig’s Red Herring piece on Palladium has generated a lot of interesting talk among techno-law-bloggers. (See e.g. Copyfight, Ernie the Attorney, Lessig, and Frank Field.) This is all interesting, but it’s very speculative. As Bruce Schneier points out, in the best technical perspective on Palladium I’ve seen, we really know very…
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Lessig on Microsoft and DRM
Larry Lessig has a provocative piece in Red Herring on Microsoft’s plans regarding DRM and Palladium. Lessig says that Palladium is not as bad as some people say, and that Palladium may in fact benefit consumers (at least compared to the alternatives). This piece has provoked some really interesting discussion over on Copyfight, Ernie the…
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China Stops Blocking Google
AP reports that China is no longer blocking Google. (Ben Edelman’s site at Harvard confirms this.)
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Economist Article
The article on me and my pro-tinkering work, from the June 20th issue of the Economist, is now available on line.
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Dornseif on Source Code and Object Code
Maximillian Dornseif offers another comment on my source code vs. object code posting. He points out, correctly, that we can still define “source code” and “object code” reasonably. We can get some mileage out of these definitions, as long as we remember that a piece of code might be either source code, or object code,…
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More on Berman-Coble's Peer-to-Peer Definition
In a previous posting, I remarked on the overbreadth of the Berman-Coble bill’s definition of “peer to peer file trading network”. The definition has another interesting quirk, which looks to me like an error by the bill’s drafters. Here is the definition: ‘peer to peer file trading network’ means two or more computers which are…
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China Now Re-Routing Google Requests
Reuters reports that, since the weekend, some requests for Google from inside China are being rerouted to other, government-approved search engines. (Link at wirednews.com) UPDATE (3pm EDT, Sept. 10): Ben Edelman now has screenshots of redirected browsers. (Link thanks to greplaw.)
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John Gilmore on Spam and Censorship
Politech has an interesting message from John Gilmore about the effect of anti-spam measures.
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Wireless LANs, Security, and Intrusions
News.com has an article about drive-by spam. The idea is that a spammer will find a building with a wireless LAN. The spammer will then connect to that LAN, without permission, from outside the building, and use the building’s email server to send a big load of spam email. This is abusive behavior. The spammer…