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Friday, May 24, 2002

MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!
Posted by jamie on Friday May 24, @09:30AM
from the op-amp dept.
A month ago, the MPAA filed its report [PDF] with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terrors of analog copying. I quote: "in order to help plug the hole, watermark detectors would be required in" -- are you sitting down? -- "all devices that perform analog to digital conversions." At their page Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age, the Senate lays out the issues they'll be looking at, including briefs from corporate groups, and provides a comment form so your opinion can be heard as well. As Cory Doctorow writes: "this is a much more sweeping (and less visible) power-grab than the Hollings Bill, and it's going forward virtually unopposed. ...the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group is bare weeks away from turning over a veto on new technologies to Hollywood." Doctorow's article on the "analog hole" for the EFF does a great job of explaining the issues to non-electrical-engineers, and has many thought-provoking examples of how requiring such technology would be a giant step backwards.

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1:11:41 PM

Yahoo Drops Auctions in Most of Europe. Failing to eclipse its major rival in the online auction market overseas, Yahoo said that it would stop offering its own auctions in six European countries and promote eBay instead. By Suzanne Kapner. [New York Times: Technology]
1:03:34 PM

Five Best Practices for Content Management Application Development. Godfrey Baker of Organic reveals five best practices for content management application development. Proper planning, education, and a scalable taxonomy are key to a successful CMA rollout. 0524 [WebReference News]
12:59:37 PM

FBI Seeks Pearl Video Ban on Net. FBI agents say Internet service providers could be in legal hot water unless they delete the videotape of reporter Daniel Pearl being murdered. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
12:58:58 PM

7-Eleven puts Net shopping in stores. The chain is putting special kiosks in its stores that will let people shop online using cash. But for the convenience, consumers may soon have to pay up. [CNET News.com]
12:54:03 PM

DVD site climbs on Wall Street debut. Online DVD rental company Netflix gets a thumbs-up from investors, opening at $16.19 and rising as high as $17.40, or 16 percent. [CNET News.com]
12:49:41 PM

DeCSS' Continuing Saga

DeCSS' Continuing Saga
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 23, @03:33PM
from the hanging-int-he-balance dept.
blankmange writes "Newsbytes is carrying a followup on the DeCSS and 2600's court cases: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems." Maybe it's not over yet..."

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12:49:25 PM