The Senate Judiciary Committee, responding to the hail of brickbats that greeted Senator Hatch's "Induce Act," asked the Copyright Office to propose something that would be more popular with the technology community. Here's the heart of what it came up with: Whoever manufactures, offers to the public, provides, or otherwise...

When NYC Independent Media Center's ISP, Calyx Internet Access, was served with a grand jury subpoena last week, their lawyers' job was made considerably easier by Indymedia's no-logging policy. Calyx got the subpoena in connection with a Justice Department investigation into the posting of an RNC delegate...

Tech support for Microsoft's new MSN Music service is responding to the incompatibility between its downloads and the iPod by advising its customers to burn the downloads to CD, then rip the CD to a compatible format: Although Apple computers and Apple iPods do not support the PC standard...

The New York Times runs an editorial on the MGM v. Grokster decision that gets to the heart of why EFF took the case on behalf of Grokster co-defendant StreamCast Networks: It is impossible to strike down software like Grokster for its use in illegal file-sharing without also...

The LA Times has an article [reg. req.] carrying news that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially confirmed what we've long known: the controversial CAPPS II passenger profiling system didn't die. It simply spent its summer vacation at the clinic and spa, getting a...

Deep in the darkest heart of your servers, there live files known as logs. They contain all manner of intensely revealing information about people who use your systems. Web server logs might show which URLs somebody has visited, for how long, and what they wrote on an anonymous message board...