• Sununu: FCC Tech Mandates Must Be Banned
  Republican Senator proposes law that would stop broadcast,
  audio flags in their tracks.
  
• How to Save the Classics
  If libraries dump the classics, the real solution is the
  public domain.
  
• Sealand for Sale
  One used crypto-utopia, going cheap.
  
• Studios OK DeCSS on Movie Downloads
  Requires new blank DVDs, new burners - and probably
  reprogramming of the audience's wishes.
  
• Eight Internet Losers in 2006
  With the Goodmail furor and its Data Valdez, AOL tops the
  charts, beating even Senator Stevens.
  
• Face Recognition for Photo Searches Sparks Privacy Fears
  Growing concerns over new pattern-matching technologies.
  
• Music Business Set to Relax Digital Restrictions
  More indications that DRM has reached its high-tide mark:
  though the flood damage will take years to fix.
  
• New Lawsuits Challenge Apple's DRM
  Antitrust versus DRM.
  
• Ed Felten's World of the (Near) Future
  He and his team give their predictions for 2007.
  
• Gerald Ford: Privacy Godfather?
  President Ford's mixed attempts to fix privacy in the
  United States.
  
• Italian Law Mandates Content Blocking
  Italian ISPs are required to block sites within six hours
  of being told to do so -but is that compatible with EU law?
  
• Sony Fined by French Court for DRM Music
  Sony's use of its ATRAC DRM on its online music store was
  an illegal tying practice, says French court.