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A new kind of broadcast flag?

Recently, a U.S. patent application by Philips was published. Philips seeks a patent for an "apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel d…

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How to Succeed in Punditry

Ezra Klein on the art of being a pundit: "Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with…

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Nuturing the African Commons

icommons Africa is a new project dedicated to Nurturing the African Commons. Africans living in a continent so rich in culture and heritage, often struggle to…

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Tarleton Gillespie

Monday April 17, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served DRM strategies for technical copy protection regulate the use of con…

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Help needed: History of 'Share'

I am working on a small genealogy of sharing in the context of computers. Surprisingly there is very little literature on this phenomenon. The word 'share&#…

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Poorly written terms of service agreements

I recently created an American Airlines frequent flyer account online. Here is one of the oddest parts of the Terms of Service agreement displayed when you open…

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The Empirical Impact of Filesharing

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) recently released a study suggesting that illegal downloading cost the British music industry 1.8 billion pounds over th…

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Assault on the privacy of your harddrive

Microsoft recently 'helped' Oklahoma craft a spyware protection act. They conveniently wrote in broad exceptions to make sure they and other content and…

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Complaint Filed

Student Megan Adams drafted and filed this complaint alleging that CBP failed to comply with the FOIA by failing to conduct an adequate search and wrongfully wi…

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Boyle-esque puzzle

Okay, y'all have already thought of this, but it just came to me: What would happen if we passed a law that said it was illegal to have been convicted of a…