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		<title>Some Big Providers To Quietly Begin Monitoring Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people who want control over the Internet are nothing if not persistent. They are quite capable of learning from their mistakes, too. So it should perhaps come as no surprise that they have licked their wounds and regathered their forces after the resounding defeat of SOPA. They’ve come up with a new scheme to protect their precious copyrights; a kinder, gentler version of SOPA that, while it enables spying, supposedly has education more in mind than punishment. <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/providers-monitor-users/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CISPA: The Fight for Privacy Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swcp.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance. That has been demonstrated once again in the ongoing legal struggle over privacy on the Internet. The celebration and congratulations among the people who united to defeat SOPA, the &#8220;Stop Online Piracy Act&#8220;, the last proposed draconian legislation aimed at protecting copyright and intellectual property, had not even ended before another such bill was proposed. This one is called CISPA, the &#8220;Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act&#8220;, which indicates it&#8217;s a somewhat different beast than SOPA, directed against hackers rather than file-sharers. (You can download a PDF of the actual bill, H.R. 3523, here.) It&#8217;s not quite SOPA risen like a zombie from the grave, but it is written in such ambiguous language that many privacy advocates consider it even more insidious and potentially harmful. CISPA, opponents claim, allow &#8220;cyber entities&#8221; such as ISPs, social networks, and cell phone and other service providers, to circumvent Internet privacy laws. It allows the government to monitor online communications if it suspects any kind of cybersecurity threat to be involved. And since the bill does not really define cybersecurity, that leaves the door wide open, allowing virtually anyone to be spied on for any reason. Not only the government is given this power. If a cyber entity thinks a threat is involved, it can take action. The only safeguard built in is that it cannot be done for &#8220;unfair competitive advantage&#8221;. All that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/cispa-privacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ACTA: The Internet Fight Goes International</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet activists who are celebrating the apparent defeat of the SOPA and PIPA bills have found their party already interrupted by the appearance, or rather, re-appearance of a piece of legislation that could have an even more significant effect: ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Whereas SOPA and PIPA were merely proposed US laws, ACTA is an international treaty, so its scope is much wider. It will become law for all signatory states and override any contrary provisions in US codes. On January 26, the European Union and 22 member states formally signed ACTA, and apparently it now goes before the European Parliament. Last, October, ACTA was signed by 10 nations, including the US which helped sponsor it. However, though the President signed it as an executive agreement, constitutionally the treaty must still be ratified by the US Senate. Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Cyprus, and Slovakia are some of the most important nations that have still not signed on. There is a huge amount of suspicion across the Internet surrounding the treaty because it was negotiated in secrecy by industry and government trade representatives of some of the richest countries without any input from anyone else. In fact, time after time, parliaments and interest groups around the world were told they could not see it while it was being worked on. For a long time the only information about the provisions of the proposed treaty came through diplomatic cables &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/acta-internet-fight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight over Copyright and Net Neutrality Will Shape the Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first battle over copyright on record was an actual physical battle. Around 560, Columba, an Irish monk, copied out a book of psalms, intending to keep it for himself. This was disputed by St. Finnian, owner of the original volume who had lent it to him to read. The saint was supported by the court which said that the reproduction rightfully belonged to him as sure as a calf does to its mother. It being the Dark Ages, there was nothing for it then but to fight it out. Columba’s side won the melee; in grief over the ensuing deaths, however, the monk left Ireland forever. During his lifelong exile, he founded the great monastery of Iona where the magnificent Book of Kells was later made, was the first known witness of the Loch Ness Monster, and ultimately became a saint, too, so it all worked out pretty well for him in the long run. A millennium and a half later, however, copyright conflicts are still being fought almost as viciously in the courts. But while modern media could not even be imagined by the scribes of old, the issues would be quite familiar. Now, as then, the greatest disagreements are often caused by the use of new technologies to do things previously impossible — be it with a goose-quill pen and parchment back then, or mouse and keyboard now. No rational person would disagree that artists should receive &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/copyright-net-neutrality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What about the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA)?</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/sopa-pipa-piracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a customer wrote in for more information on these two important pieces of legislation. Here&#8217;s the response from SWCP President Mark Costlow, that we thought was so good, it deserved to be posted: SOPA and PROTECT-IP are both very bad ideas. They are attempts to address something that is a real problem (theft of intellectual property) but they do it in such a flawed way that the cure would be much worse than the disease. One can argue back and forth about how much of a problem piracy really is. Both sides tend to blow their positions out of proportion. But giving people the power to turn off (read: destroy) web sites at will, without due process, is irresponsible and dangerous. The existing mechanisms for removing infringing material from the internet already have &#8220;baby vs bathwater&#8221; problems, and these bills would make it worse. Here&#8217;s one example. DMCA Takedowns are routinely used to remove videos from YouTube which are deemed to contain a media company&#8217;s copyrighted material, when in fact the usage is in a news or commentary context and therefore covered under the Fair Use doctrine. The harmed party can protest the takedown and get it reversed, but that process is lengthy. For someone who makes their living commenting on current events, the takedown essentially nullifies the content.  It&#8217;s almost useless when they restore it 2 weeks later. Here&#8217;s a write-up of a recent case of this, but it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/sopa-pipa-piracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Risks and Rewards of File Sharing</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/file-sharing-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often when people hear the term “peer-to-peer file sharing”, they think of torrents, illegal swapping of the latest movies and music, and resulting lawsuits by the record or movie industries for piracy.  That does happen; however, file sharing encompasses much more than ripping off the latest hits. Peer-to-Peer, or P2P, is the most widely used form of file sharing. It has become a big and growing part of the Internet, already accounting for 50-70% of consumer network traffic, with millions of P2P clients downloaded and in use.  In 2004, an estimated 70 million people were busily sharing files, and doubtless many more now. But P2P is not the only means to share files over the Net. It should not be confused with file hosting, which uses the more familiar client-server architecture of the Internet to stream files to users from big, centralized Web servers. In its purest form, Peer-to-Peer is strictly that: users’ computers directly linked across the Net to their peers; that is, other users’ computers.  They join in a network of equals, each machine devoting some fraction of its computing power, bandwidth, and memory to the network, ideally without any need for a central coordinator. In fact, P2P works pretty much the way the Web was originally intended to function. Collaborative computing Civilization is the story of how ever-larger tasks can be done, and done much more efficiently, with cooperation. As a form of collaborative computing between users, &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/file-sharing-risks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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