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Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
WaPo - Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community’s role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies’ computer systems. Somehow, I am not reassured by this news.
January 2008 / 1 min.
What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common
Concurring Opinions - What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common: As others have already noted, the Atlantic Monthly is now making its articles available online, including browseable issues going ten years back and select articles through most of the twentieth century. I immediately checked it out to see if one of my favorite […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report
JURIST - Paper Chase: Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report: The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released a report Wednesday saying that fair use exceptions to US copyright laws create more than $4.5 trillion in revenue in the US annually, employ millions of workers, and represented one-sixth of the total US […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target – the Second Such Ruling
Threat Level from Wired.com - Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target – the Second Such Ruling : A litigation target of the Recording Industry Association of America has been awarded attorney’s fees after the music business falsely sued an Oregon woman for copyright infringement. It is the second time […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools)
Balkanization - Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools): Interdisciplinary studies are currently the rage in legal academia. An increasing number of law schools are touting their interdisciplinary programs, which include offering courses from other academic disciplines (economics, statistics, anthropology, etc.) in the law school curriculum, […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Who Protects Your Cloud Data?
Web Worker Daily - Who Protects Your Cloud Data?: Yet in a world of imperfect hardware and software, as well as regulatory and legal issues, choosing one company for storage is still ultimately a gamble. It may be unthinkable that an EMC or Amazon or Google could fail, but it’s not impossible. No matter how […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Opinion: 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M
Computerworld Opinion - 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M: The growing number of e-discovery requests associated with the recently updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) is forcing companies to look for ways to automate their e-discovery process (see “FAQ: Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Affect Storage Plans”).
January 2008 / 1 min.
Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State
Balkinization - Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State: In this article with Sandy Levinson and on the pages of this blog I’ve [Professor Balkin] been arguing that the United States is gradually moving from a National Security State to a National Surveillance State, which uses new information technologies and both public action […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Whose bandwidth is being given away?
NetworkWorld.com Community - Whose bandwidth is being given away? : But it’s on the point of ISP terms of service that I believe Schneier’s case falls. First, he expresses no concern whatsoever about others stealing his bandwidth from his open network – “pay it forward,” he suggests. But bandwidth isn’t the only issue here, at […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Steal This Wi-Fi
Wired Security Matters - Steal This Wi-Fi: Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people – and attracts the most criticism – is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see […]
January 2008 / 2 min.