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"Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?"

This fascinating article  appears on the front page of today's Washington Post: Some virtual activities clearly violate the law, like trafficking in sto…

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Amicus filed in U.S. v. Andrus

Paul Ohm and I wrote an amicus brief in the 10th Circuit case of US v. Andrus, the opinion I wrote about in last week's Wired News column. In the case, the…

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Another Victory For Carol Shloss

Most who have followed Professor Carol Shloss's lawsuit against the Estate of James Joyce and its Trustees know she prevailed completely when the Estate agr…

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Effective TPMs the Finnish way

A district court in Finland ruled yesterday that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) - the standard technological protection measure for movies distributed on D…

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U.S. v. Andrus

My Wired News column today is Hack My Son's Computer, Please, a discussion of the Fourth Amendment opinion in U.S. v. Andrus (pdf), issued in April by the T…

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The Assault on Reason

From Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason: "Why has America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned? Faith in the powe…

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The Two Faces Of Perfect 10 v. Google

The Ninth Circuit has issued its long-awaited opinion in Google v. Perfect 10.  Read the decision here.  My initial take is that it's a mixed bag.  On one h…

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(Rejecting) The Human Community

Brooks in the 5/11 NYT : "In April 1999, Blair delivered a speech in Chicago in which he ran down all the features of the globalized world that cross borde…

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Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall

Tom Grubisich, in the May 14th Washington Post: "These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones. There's one massiv…