Seer Systems, Inc. and Stanley Jungleib have issued a written litigation threat to EFF over statements made as part of EFF's Patent Busting Project. EFF responded today, noting that its discussions of Seer and Jungleib were protected by the First Amendment. Both letters are attached below.
The letter arrived...

EDUCAUSE, the nonprofit for information technology in higher education, has posted a one hour conversation with Jim Griffin, the head of Choruss (and member of EFF's advisory board), about the major label effort to create a voluntary collective license for music file-sharing on campus.
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Two weeks ago, the Irish music industry's trade body, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA), wrote to all Irish ISPs — and, apparently accidentally, many other unrelated Internet companies — requiring that the ISPs instigate a "three strikes" policy with their customers, and universally block sites that IRMA...

Change Congress' Lawrence Lessig points to a report from campaign contribution researchers MAPLight.org about H.R. 801, the terrible bill that would cut the public's open access to taxpayer-funded medical research. Lessig writes:[T]he co-sponsors of this bill who sit on the Judiciary Committee received on average two-times the amount...

In an October 23, 2001, Office of Legal Counsel memo released today, the Bush Administration concluded that "the Fourth Amendment does not apply to domestic military operations," including "intercepting electronic or wireless communications" by "employing surveillance methods more powerful and sophisticated than those available to law enforcement agencies." See...