Entries Tagged as 'copyfight'

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Anomos: Anonymous and Encrypted BitTorrent

John has just done a hell of a write-up of the Anomos protocol we came up with last summer, complete with pretty pictures of fancy graphs. This is just a teaser for before we drop the real-deal, of course, but at least we can let the protocol be publicly audited and publicized. FTA:
Anomos is a […]

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Fighting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and PRO-IP Act

There is an imminent threat to all internet users in westernized countries! If two pieces of proposed legislation go through, which they likely will unless we really, really fight against them, file-sharing copyright infringement will essentially change from being a civil offense to a criminal offense and will create a body to enforce those laws. […]

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Stanford University Actively Reporting Students to the RIAA; Hamfisted Government Journalism

Stanford University, once home to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, has just changed it’s campus network policy to actively report all DMCA infringements to the copyright overlords.
According to my friend George, a Stanford freshman: dude. shit is fffffucked up at stanford
This article from the Stanford Daily covers today’s story.

This drastic change now requires the university […]

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Pandora.com Founder Tim Westergren coming to speak at BU; MediaSentry cited for not having a license

(This part is a cross-post from the BU Free Culture blog.)
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora.com, which provides custom radio stations based on user preferences is coming to speak on 2/27 at Morse Auditorium! Here’s the info from the facebook invite:

Name:
Pandora.com Founder Tim Westergren Talks about Digital Music
Tagline:
Radio, Access, Industry, Internet and Music!
Host:
BU Free Culture
Type:
Music/Arts - […]

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Linking is Not a Crime!: More on Jukebox

I sent an email to Sam Bayard of the Citizen Media Law Project telling him about Paul’s RIAA woes. I asked him if linking was a crime and his verdict was no. Of course, this is still just one man’s opinion, but he is a very well informed man.
I’m assuming he’s not going to mind […]

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

RIAA sends DMCA takenown notice to developer of the Jukebox Facebook application

My friend and housemate Paul Sawaya is the author one of the better Facebook applications, Jukebox, which lets users add an MP3 player to their profiles with a nice user interface (and thankfully no autoplay). It’s a nice, quick way to recommend and play music for your friends, and it has ~30,000 users.
Yesterday, Paul received […]

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Bill requiring network filtering on college campuses clears house

HR4137, a bill requiring colleges to implement network filtering passed the house. Learn more about it here on OpenCongress. Ars Technica has done the best write-up covering the story, so you should read about it here:Controversial college funding bill passed—P2P proviso intact.
I was interviewed for our college paper about this before it passed. That article […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

All NIH Funded Research to be Made Publicly Available

Excellent news, science fans!
A new law, HR2764, has been passed and signed by the Presdient (link to the press release), requiring all research funded by the National Institute of Health to be openly accessible to the public via PubMed within a year. This seems to be largely in part due to a group (which I’d […]

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Boston University Free Culture Blog, First Meeting

The BUFC Blog is up and running, and our first meeting will be this Thursday. Check the blog and the flier for more info!

I’ve got a couple of articles I really want to write about international torrenting and about possible improvements to the Science Commons, but I’m really bogged down by school and Star Trek […]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Boston University Free Culture

I’m proud to announce that Free Culture has just received a go-ahead from BU. I’ll be starting a teacher’s rights campaign to give teachers and researchers the right and the methods to grant open access to their lectures and materials. More details once things start rolling..

Anyway, I got a note from the ORG/EFF about the […]