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VoIP Regulation in America: A View from the Trenches VoIP is undergoing incredible growth right now, and in the next year there will likely be dozens of firms offering what only a few offer today, as far as VoIP-to-PSTN delivery. The regulatory environment is stable at the moment, but far from certain. In this op-ed piece, John Todd discusses why he believes regulatory stances need to be established now, while the industry is still small, and why old ideas of technology need to be removed from regulatory wording. Weigh in with your thoughts at the end of the article. [ Policy DevCenter]
Internet Perspectives
Incredible Movies -- Free!
Almost 2,000 ephemeral films (industrial, educational, and advertising) from the early 1900s through the 1960s are available for free on the Net, thanks to film archivist Rick Prelinger.
[ Policy DevCenter]
Internet Perspectives
Spam Busters
Spam has become a $10 billion problem for American businesses, and liability concerns could push that amount even higher. To help enterprise recipients fight back the rising tide, ActiveState convened a task force of open source spam fighters to address the problem.
[O'Reilly Network]
Internet Perspectives
The Next Revolution: Smart Mobs
What do you get when you mix together millions of cell phones and P2P-enabled computers with wireless Internet floating in the air and users reviewing products, sellers, and each other? Smart mobs. That's what Howard Rheingold, a keynoter at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference, calls these folks. Read what he has to say about this third computing revolution.
[openp2p.com]
Platform Independent
Structure and Service: Illuminations from a Trip to the Forest
What do end users really want? Andy Oram got some answers talking to an unusual individual in the woods of Northern Oregon while on a mission to drum up new attendees for O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. The bottom line: give users rich interactions mediated by a format of their own choosing. Perhaps we'll find those adventurous developers who will be able to satisfy these needs at this spring's conference. Be there--you never know who might show up.
[ Policy DevCenter]
Internet Perspectives
Cory Doctorow's Bitchun' World: P2P Gone Wild
In the world of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, you're always on the Net, reputation matters more than cash, and your life is on a hard disk. Sound familiar? Richard Koman interviews the author.
[ Policy DevCenter]
Internet Perspectives
Robin Gross Seeks International IP Justice
The U.S. copyright industry's demands for legal protection have extended into Europe and the rest of the world. Richard Koman speaks with Robin Gross, an attorney working to help stem the wave of anti-consumer legislation.
[ Policy DevCenter]
Platform Independent
Media is Ripe for a Convergence of a Different Sort
New technology always presents a range of possible new practices. Andy Oram summarizes the ways that various observers have suggested handling the onslaught of the digital age in media. But are studios ready for constructive alternatives to the DMCA?
[O'Reilly Network]
Eldred Opinion Met with Anger, Determination The Eldred v. Ashcroft decision, the most important intellectual property case in a generation, is having a huge impact in the halls of Congress and along the byways of cyberspace. Richard Koman reports on the fallout. [O'Reilly Network]
Internet Perspectives
Boucher: DMCA-Fixing Bill "Will Win"
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is "one of the biggest barriers to innovation" ever adopted, says Representative Rick Boucher. To tear down those barriers, he has introduced a bill to decriminalize fair use copying. Richard Koman talks to the congressman.
[O'Reilly Network]
Returning Creativity to the Commons Richard Koman reports from the launch event of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons. This new organization hopes to increase what's available in the public domain by enabling creators to either give their works to the public domain, or to limit the terms of their copyright protection. [O'Reilly Network]
Platform Independent
Applications, User Interfaces, and Servers in the Soup
The standalone application, once the central fixture of computer use, is dissolving into a soup of servers, application fragments, and user interfaces. Andy Oram looks at new trends that could predict where applications are going.
[O'Reilly Network]
Karl Auerbach: ICANN "Out of Control" Richard Koman talks to Karl Auerbach, a public board member of ICANN and one of the Internet governing body's strongest critics. [O'Reilly Network]
Lessons from the Internet Bookmobile Cruising in a high-tech-equipped bus, Richard Koman joined Brewster Kahle on a cross-country crusade in the Internet Bookmobile to provide lessons to school kids in the applications of the public domain. Read their experiences as they stopped at various schools--taking ASCII text versions of public domain works available online and letting the kids turn them into books. [O'Reilly Network]
Help! IE6 Is Blocking My Cookies Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies. [Web Development DevCenter]
The Near Future of Digital Rights Management Daniel Steinberg looks at the ramifications of Hollywood's desire to turn the PC into a trusted digital appliance, in this report from the DRM panel at the Mac OS X Conference. [MacDevCenter.com]
Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002 In his keynote address to a packed house at OSCON 2002, Lawrence Lessig challenges the open source audience to get more involved in the political process. Read the complete transcript of Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002. [Policy DevCenter]
P3P: Privacy Primer The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) provides a standard way for Web sites to communicate about their practices regarding the collection, use, and distribution of personal information. This article describes the platform, shows how Microsoft IE 6 implements it, and gives examples of markup code for web designers. [O'Reilly Network]
Working Without Copyleft The GNU General Public License, which aims to keep code open and free, brings its own limitations on code. For these authors who are software developers, those restrictions led them to seek out other licenses and abandon copyleft. [Policy DevCenter]
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Mac vs. PC, a small cost comparison experiment [François Joseph de Kermadec] Covert attempt to undermine EU Software Patent Legislation underway [Kevin Bedell] Back-to-Iraq goes back to Iraq [brian d foy] Why I won't buy a so-called "cost efficient" computer [François Joseph de Kermadec] Apple rejects iMix playlist [brian d foy] DRM and the False Privacy of Email [David Sklar] California bans digital voting machine [brian d foy] Glushko Speaks [Rick Jelliffe] |
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