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“Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau’s (IBB) Anonymizer Service in Iran,” April 28, 2004. [Link] See also this related CNet article by Declan McCullagh.
A new data memo from the Pew Internet Project notes a decline in the rate of music downloading from its heyday in 2003, but millions of Americans continue to obtain music using filing sharing applications. Many users have been deterred from downloading however by the highly publicized anti-piracy campaign waged by the music industry.
The New York Times has an overview of the students, program, and legal community evaluation of Concord Law School, the online program launched in 1998 by Kaplan Educational Centers, that graduated its first class last fall.
A study by the Economist Intelligence Unit says the United States now ranks sixth in E-readiness: “The U.S. ranks sixth on this year’s E-readiness list of 50 developed countries. E-readiness measures a nation’s E-business milieu to determine how open it is to Internet-based opportunities.” (the 2004 e-readiness rankings report, 30 pages, pdf) In last year’s …
Libraries Wired, and Reborn. See also this article from The Guardian (UK), on the latest e-book technology innovations from Sony, and this one from the New York Times.
“The American Library Association, along with other library and education associations, has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing a Department of Justice attempt to bring all broadband access to the Internet within the scope of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).” [Link]
From Tax-News.com a report on offshore tax return preparation, and the response, by IRS commissioner Mark Everson, to concerns expressed in this letter to him by Rep. Edward J. Markey, a member of the Congressional Privacy Caucus. [JURIST’s Paper Chase] See also this February 15, 2004 New York Times article, Outsourcing Abroad Applies to Tax …
The National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) released a new study, Exporting the Law: A Legal Analysis of State and Federal Outsourcing Legislation (pdf, 32 pages) [Donna Cavallini] “Legislators in at least 36 states have introduced more than 100 bills to restrict overseas outsourcing, and legislation on the issue has also proliferated at the federal …
From the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), Vulnerability Advisory Notice 236929, issued April 20, 2004. “The vulnerability described in this advisory affects implementations of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that comply with the Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETFs) Requests For Comments (RFCs) for TCP…TCP is a core network protocol used in the majority …
Who Pays for Open Access? by Helen Doyle, Andy Gass, Rebecca Kennison. “Here we address…the perception that the publication-charge model puts an unfair burden on authors. Subsequently, we will address concerns about the long-term economic viability of the open-access model, the integrity and quality of work published in open-access journals, and the effect that open …
Broadband Penetration on the Upswing: 55% of Adult Internet Users Have Broadband at Home or Work. “As of March 1, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 68 million adult Americans log on via broadband either at home or work. Fully 48 million adult Americans have broadband connections at home.”
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