For a while there, it looked like TiVo could avoid (some of) the copyright battles that felled the competition by playing nice with the content industry. But as this MSNBC Washington Post article shows, sometimes even asking for permission to innovate isn't enough:

Hollywood studios and the National...

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld a preliminary injunction in the COPA case, it's time to turn our attention to another important obscenity case that has broad implications for the future of online anonymity.
Within the next year, a federal court in New York City will...

The controversial passenger-profiling system has officially been cancelled, but critics remain appropriately skeptical about what its "death" means. Below, a brief sampling of perspectives:
Edward Hasbrouck @ The Practical Nomad: "Hours after announcing that the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling and monitoring system would be ...

Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a new report to Congress singing its praises.
As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report, entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act...

The fearless folks @ FreeCulture.org have just announced "Barbie-in-a-Blender Day," a unique campaign to support fair use and free expression.
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Mattel isn't a big fan of free speech -- at least not when it applies to their products. So when Utah artist Tom Forsythe took...

Three good pieces on the state of email privacy post-U.S. v. Councilman and the need for an update to "wiretap" laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA):
StarTribune.com: "Until Congress updates the laws it wrote when email was still in infancy, users ought to pause...

The RIAA has been touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement.
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