April 27, 2001
Salon: Is the RIAA running scared?
Felten's decision can be seen as eminently savvy -- and not because he chose to avoid litigation. His actions, along with the shortsighted bullying tactics of the RIAA, set a precedent that could potentially undermine the widely disparaged DMCA.
Washington Post: Uncopyable CD Strikes the Wrong Note.
Then you have to prove you own the CD -- in my case, by entering the last words in the eighth, ninth and 10th paragraphs of the liner notes. (I got this wrong the first time because the title, for some reason, was counted as a paragraph.)
NY Times: Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
Does fair use, which has its roots in the First Amendment, entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work in the first place -- -- especially when the material is guarded by a technological device designed to prevent digital piracy?
ZDNN: Many wireless networks open to attack.
Despite outward appearances, Messrs. Shipley and Peterson aren’t malevolent hackers. To the contrary, their aim is utterly benign: to expose one of the newest and potentially most dangerous security holes in U.S. business, in the form of wireless computer networks.
Internet World: AOL and Swatch Will Develop Web Watches.
While many observers see these kinds of devices as a joke, and many of the devices never get past the prototype stage, Swatch has already begun shipping one, the Net.Invader, and is developing another, the Syncro.Beat, which it expects to launch later this year.
The Economist: Scents and sensibility.
One such group is based at Xerox’s PARC in California, and is led by Ed Chi and Stuart Card. Dr Chi and Dr Card take their inspiration from the science of ecology. Dr Card reckons that a user “forages” through a website in search of a piece of information...
MIT Technology Review: The Router Stuff.
You love wireless, but you don't love the way today's wide-area service providers lock you into slow data rates and one-size-fits-all gadgets. A "personal router" project at the MIT promises to break your chains, opening up rich choices of attractive new devices and local-area wireless options.
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