SCOTUS to Take RIAA Case?

It looks like the Supreme Court could soon grant cert to an RIAA file-sharing case testing the “innocent infringer” defense to copyright infringement.

One Web Day: Tomorrow

Celebrate the Web tomorrow.

Celebrate the Web’s openness on Facebook. Celebrate #onewebday on Twitter.

One. Web. Day. Thanks Susan.

Four Essays on Cyber Security

Jack Goldsmith, at LawFare, recommended four essays, on issues like use of force, attribution, cyber command, and general Internet governance and security. Looking forward to reading them.

Obama’s FCC: One Year of Empty Promises

Josh Silver of Free Press notes the FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has wasted a year on empty net neutrality promises. Genachowski’s chairmanship has been unbelievably pathetic and disappointing. He has no major accomplishments of any kind. His net neutrality activity consists of nothing more than big promises and flowery press releases followed by repeated shows of moral and political cowardice.

Free Press also issued this report, listing the empty promises and inaction.

A Very Short History of Content Regulation

Jillian York over at ONI has a brief piece which features ONI’s Rob Faris discussing the evolution of content regulation on the Internet.

Suspected cyber skirmishes as South China Sea dispute continues

Agence France-Presse on the Japanese government’s suspicions that cyber attacks on government websites in the past week may have been conducted by Chinese hackers.

Cyber rally disrupts US recording industry website

Members of 4chan online forum that promotes users remaining anonymous organized distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on websites for the (RIAA) and the  (MPAA).

Cybercrime is world’s most dangerous criminal threat

A crime epidemic is silently sweeping the globe as criminals turn our ever-increasing dependence on computers against us.

Stuxnet worm a weapon against Iran’s nuclear program?

Robert McMillan on the growing speculation that the sophisticated Stuxnet worm  may have been specifically designed for critical targets within Iran.

Anti-Piracy Bill on the Hill

A bipartisan Senate bill hopes to combat internet piracy, copyright infringement, and counterfeiting.