Tenenbaum and Statutory Damages
I’ve been thinking about the implications of Judge Gertner’s ruling in Sony v. Tenenbaum, and have had the good fortune to discuss it with copyright expert Thinh Nguyen. One unexpected effect of the...
View ArticleEasterbrook was wrong
There is such thing as Law of the Horse. Lessig 1, Easterbrook 0!
View ArticleLegal Thuggery, or Law as Transaction Cost
(Via JZ) BoingBoing has a neat, infuriating post about a ridiculous takedown threat they received over a post about autism. The threat-0-gram is from The Academic Advantage, by way of their personal...
View ArticleEgypt Goes Off the Net
Last night, Egypt severed its connections with the wider Internet. (Coverage from the New York Times and Global Voices, for example, and see coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks.)...
View ArticleMedia Cloud Relaunched
If you are looking for a fascinating and enlightening time-suck (and my fellow academics now grading final exams, I am looking at you), then I have just the thing for you. The Berkman Center recently...
View ArticleMalware, MacOS, and Mayhem
It’s Alliteration Monday here at Info/Law! Ars Technica has a great write-up on the Mac Defender malware that’s been infecting hipsters‘ MacBooks left and right. Apple started by ignoring the problem,...
View ArticleProtecting Hackers From Lawyers
Oliver Day and I are giving a talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School (our former home) on our proposed shield law to protect software security research. (The longer...
View ArticleProtecting Hackers from Lawyers
Oliver Day and I presented the idea behind our article The Hacker’s Aegis (now available from Emory Law Journal – the cite, for law nerds, is 60 Emory L.J. 1051 (2011)) at the Berkman Center for...
View ArticleHow Not To Secure the Net
In the wake of credible allegations of hacking of a water utility, including physical damage, attention has turned to software security weaknesses. One might think that we’d want independent experts –...
View ArticleCensorship at Yale
The first rule of censorship conferences is… do not talk about censorship conferences. Ignoring that, I encourage you to tune in to Yale’s Global Censorship Conference – it is an awesome group of...
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