The New Freedom

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 […]

What do China, Thailand and the United States all have in common? Government imposed censorship of the whiste-blower/investigative journalism website, Wikileaks.
The creation of Wikileaks was one of the first things I ever wrote about on this site, and since its creation just over a year ago it has been incredibly successful in exposing corruption and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hooollyyy shiiiit.
Yesterday, I mentioned the blog post I saw which was repeatedly censored by an IP address owned by the Department of Homeland security. This morning, I got an email from Rob, the author, saying that he’d been taken an involuntary trip to his local FBI building where he was held and interrogated for […]

I noticed something very peculiar last night. I saw a link on Reddit which said “The DHS edited my freakin’ blog!”. I clicked on it and it linked to a post on a blog called Stolen Bikes Ride Faster: The musings and adventures of a secretly insane (but not necessarily mad) scientist.

The original post was […]

TV-Links (now dead) is a site which links to sites like Google Video and YouTube, which host clips of TV shows. Today, the Gloucestershire County Council, in association with a group called the FACT, raided the site’s servers and arrested the 26 year old man from Cheltenham who ran the site.

A man is now in […]

Same shit, different asshole.
Honestly, I don’t even feel compelled to comment on this one because what he wants is just so absurd I don’t think it could actually pass, he hasn’t actually filed any paperwork yet, and TorrentFreak’s write-up says everything that needs to be said.
Quoth the Blog:
“When it comes to legislation, the Internet is, […]

It was bad enough when it was the industry versus college students. Now the federal government is getting involved.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to get his own amendment attached to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. His amendment would require universities to do the following things:
* Report annually to […]