Without fans, there would be no music industry. Most people in the music industry understand this -- certainly the artists do.
But apparently not the lawyers who work for them.
An ardent fan of the New Pornographers (a great Canadian indie rock band that includes Neko Case,...

More than 350 pages describing investigative missteps that the FBI considered disclosing to the Intelligence Oversight Board, which receives reports on intelligence gathering activities that violate guidelines, laws, or presidential orders. (See Parts 4, 5, and 6 of the FOIA documents, all PDFs.) These pages detail...

On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Act gave weight to a principle that is fundamental to any democracy: The right of the people to know what the government is doing. Forty-one years later, FOIA remains an essential tool used...

Slashdot and Wired Compiler ran posts yesterday about Privatunes, a program that claims to remove personally identifying information from iTunes Plus files (the current version is closed source and Windows only, thought the site says that this will change in the future).
Privatunes 0.9 overwrites the...

Having voted to authorize subpoenas for information on the NSA spying program last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee has now officially issued them.
"Chairman Leahy issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice, the Office of the White House, the Office of the Vice President and the National Security...

During a public speech last week, the judge who presided over the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from 1995 to 2002 criticized the Bush Administration's warrantless domestic surveillance.
Judge Royce Lamberth made a simple point that bears repeating: "[J]udges understand the war has to be fought, but...

Former FISA Judge Criticizes Wiretap ProgramJudge Lamberth says "you can't trust the executive."
Video of Judge Lamberth's speech:
Justice Dept. vs. States on Phone PrivacyCan the feds stop states from investigating whether telcos
helped the NSA spy on Americans?
Google TransparencyGoogle's new...