CIVIL LIBERTIES & JUSTICE
APPEAL TO JUDGE'S DECISION ON APPLE REVELATIONS
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/03/22/eff_files_for_appeal_in_apple_v_does.php
BOING BOING - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an appeal in the Apple V Doe case, where Apple is trying to use the law to get online journalists to reveal their sources despite the constitutional protection of reporters' sources. EFF filed a petition for appeal in Apple v. Does, arguing that the central issue in the case is not "the merits of Apple's trade secret claim nor even the potential liability of these non-Party reporters should Apple ever sue them (it has not). Rather, the question is only whether Apple may ride roughshod over the reporter's privilege and the reporter's shield in its eagerness to obtain evidence."
"In other words, can Apple do an end-run around the California reporter's shield and the journalist's privilege under the federal First Amendment by forcing a third party to divulge a reporter's confidential sources? If so, can it do so without first exhausting all other means of securing the information?
"Remember, these reporters did not steal any information from Apple, bribe any Apple employees, or break any non-disclosure agreement. They are not defendants in any criminal action, and no criminal investigation is underway. Yet the trial court applied the constitutional reporter's privilege as though this were a criminal case. It even compared these journalists to 'fences' in stolen goods."
POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA .
NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS POLICE TO SCAN YOUR LICENSE PLATE AS YOU DRIVE AND DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH YOU
http://boingboing.net/
BOING BOING - Now, tow truck companies have a new way to make money. They drive around with a setup called Bootfinder. The system consists of a digital camera, character recognition software, and a laptop with a database that has information tagged to license plates. The tow truck drivers cruise around streets, scanning plates, looking for people who haven't paid various city fees and taxes. When the the laptop beeps, they hitch the car to the truck and tow it away.
FORBES - Andrew Bucholz had invented what he thought was a great idea for tracking down stolen vehicles: a camera that scans license plates on cars moving at 60mph on multilane highways. He formed a company, G2 Tactics, in Alexandria, Va. last year and began hawking the camera to police departments for $25,000 each. Zero interest. Cops were leery of new toys and unenthused about spending on an insurance-industry problem. But it turned out that another department in local government loved the camera: the tax collectors. Since last April Virginia's Arlington County has collected $90,000 by using the camera, called the Boot Finder, to identify people with outstanding parking tickets and personal property taxes--including $8,000 from the driver of a Jaguar parked outside a restaurant. In New Haven, Conn. the Boot Finder has fared even better. Since September the camera has generated $500,000 for the city in overdue parking tickets and motor vehicle taxes.
http://forbesbest.com/business/smallbusiness/forbes/2005/0228/044.html
THE NEWSPAPER - Arlington, Virginia has taken the next step in automated camera enforcement. Next month, it will expand its use of "Boot Finder," a camera device that scans license plates of parked cars and compares it against a database of unpaid fines. If the car's owner is listed as delinquent, the car can be towed -- and if the owner doesn't pay within 10 days the car is auctioned. . . New Haven, Connecticut has towed 1,800 cars and collected $1,000,000 with its Boot Finder. Bridgeport is ready to get on board as well.
The system uses a $25,000 camera mounted in a laptop-equipped minivan and is capable of taking a thousand photos every minute. Arlington County Treasurer Frank O'Leary told the Washington Times, "We're just always looking for new ways to skin the cat."
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/196.asp
GROKSTER GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax/countdown/index.php
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION - Ever since the Betamax ruling in 1984, inventors have been free to create new copying technologies as long as they are capable of substantial non-infringing (legal) uses. But by the end of this year, all that could change. In MGM v. Grokster, Hollywood and the recording industry are asking for the power to sue out of existence any technology that appears to be a threat, even if it passes the Betamax test. That puts at risk any copying technology that Betamax currently protects as well as any new technologies Hollywood doesn't like.
To raise awareness about what's at stake in the Grokster case, EFF is profiling one Betamax-protected gadget every weekday until the oral arguments before the Supreme Court on March 29. . .
THE XEROX MACHINE: This machine makes perfect replicas of printed pages. It can expand or contract the images on those pages, change their colors, and collate batches of pages into various configurations. It is ideal for copying pages from books, creating posters, and duplicating pictures.
THE WEBLOG, OR BLOG: Blogging tools make it trivial for anyone to publish their thoughts and opinions as text, images, photos, video, and audio on the Web, and come with a suite of functions to simplify linking to other blogs, copying blog posts from one blog to another, and syndicating the content of blogs to other websites.
THE VCR: This machine makes copies of over-the-air television broadcasts and can also play back copies made or sold by others. It allows users to record television programs and movies for viewing at their leisure, thus upsetting the careful pricing structure for television shows and advertising based upon the time of viewing. It also allows users to keep copies of shows and movies and watch them multiple times, without paying for each viewing, a process known as "librarying." Two machines can also be hooked up together to allow copying of copies, a process that can be used for commercial infringement as well as noncommercial infringement.
EMAIL - Email allows any Internet user (the sender) to send text messages, or any other kind of file, to one or more other Internet users (the recipients). If they choose, the recipients may then respond to the sender by drafting a subsequent email message.
AMERICAN TALIBAN: UTAH BANS INTERNET PORN SITES
DECLAN MCCULLAGH, CNET - Utah's governor signed a bill that would require Internet providers to block Web sites deemed pornographic and could also target e-mail providers and search engines. The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors." Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges.
Technology companies had urged Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman not to sign the bill, saying it was constitutionally suspect and worded so vaguely its full impact is still unclear. . . A federal judge struck down a similar law in Pennsylvania last year
WORDS
BILL MAHER - Senate Republicans are so committed to keeping this women alive that as a last ditch tactic today they subpoenaed her because it is a federal crime to harm someone who is called to testify before Congress. They said they didn't think she'd be a great witness but she had to be better then Mark McGwire.
GEORGE W. BUSH - That's how interest works. It compounds. It grows. Now, people say, what does that mean, a personal savings account? Can I take the money and go right down to the road where I was staying in this part of the world and put it in the slots? - Shreveport, Louisiana, Mar. 11. . .
There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not. But it's -- I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table. Washington, D.C., Mar. 16
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/03/22/eff_files_for_appeal_in_apple_v_does.php
BOING BOING - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an appeal in the Apple V Doe case, where Apple is trying to use the law to get online journalists to reveal their sources despite the constitutional protection of reporters' sources. EFF filed a petition for appeal in Apple v. Does, arguing that the central issue in the case is not "the merits of Apple's trade secret claim nor even the potential liability of these non-Party reporters should Apple ever sue them (it has not). Rather, the question is only whether Apple may ride roughshod over the reporter's privilege and the reporter's shield in its eagerness to obtain evidence."
"In other words, can Apple do an end-run around the California reporter's shield and the journalist's privilege under the federal First Amendment by forcing a third party to divulge a reporter's confidential sources? If so, can it do so without first exhausting all other means of securing the information?
"Remember, these reporters did not steal any information from Apple, bribe any Apple employees, or break any non-disclosure agreement. They are not defendants in any criminal action, and no criminal investigation is underway. Yet the trial court applied the constitutional reporter's privilege as though this were a criminal case. It even compared these journalists to 'fences' in stolen goods."
POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA .
NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS POLICE TO SCAN YOUR LICENSE PLATE AS YOU DRIVE AND DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH YOU
http://boingboing.net/
BOING BOING - Now, tow truck companies have a new way to make money. They drive around with a setup called Bootfinder. The system consists of a digital camera, character recognition software, and a laptop with a database that has information tagged to license plates. The tow truck drivers cruise around streets, scanning plates, looking for people who haven't paid various city fees and taxes. When the the laptop beeps, they hitch the car to the truck and tow it away.
FORBES - Andrew Bucholz had invented what he thought was a great idea for tracking down stolen vehicles: a camera that scans license plates on cars moving at 60mph on multilane highways. He formed a company, G2 Tactics, in Alexandria, Va. last year and began hawking the camera to police departments for $25,000 each. Zero interest. Cops were leery of new toys and unenthused about spending on an insurance-industry problem. But it turned out that another department in local government loved the camera: the tax collectors. Since last April Virginia's Arlington County has collected $90,000 by using the camera, called the Boot Finder, to identify people with outstanding parking tickets and personal property taxes--including $8,000 from the driver of a Jaguar parked outside a restaurant. In New Haven, Conn. the Boot Finder has fared even better. Since September the camera has generated $500,000 for the city in overdue parking tickets and motor vehicle taxes.
http://forbesbest.com/business/smallbusiness/forbes/2005/0228/044.html
THE NEWSPAPER - Arlington, Virginia has taken the next step in automated camera enforcement. Next month, it will expand its use of "Boot Finder," a camera device that scans license plates of parked cars and compares it against a database of unpaid fines. If the car's owner is listed as delinquent, the car can be towed -- and if the owner doesn't pay within 10 days the car is auctioned. . . New Haven, Connecticut has towed 1,800 cars and collected $1,000,000 with its Boot Finder. Bridgeport is ready to get on board as well.
The system uses a $25,000 camera mounted in a laptop-equipped minivan and is capable of taking a thousand photos every minute. Arlington County Treasurer Frank O'Leary told the Washington Times, "We're just always looking for new ways to skin the cat."
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/196.asp
GROKSTER GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax/countdown/index.php
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION - Ever since the Betamax ruling in 1984, inventors have been free to create new copying technologies as long as they are capable of substantial non-infringing (legal) uses. But by the end of this year, all that could change. In MGM v. Grokster, Hollywood and the recording industry are asking for the power to sue out of existence any technology that appears to be a threat, even if it passes the Betamax test. That puts at risk any copying technology that Betamax currently protects as well as any new technologies Hollywood doesn't like.
To raise awareness about what's at stake in the Grokster case, EFF is profiling one Betamax-protected gadget every weekday until the oral arguments before the Supreme Court on March 29. . .
THE XEROX MACHINE: This machine makes perfect replicas of printed pages. It can expand or contract the images on those pages, change their colors, and collate batches of pages into various configurations. It is ideal for copying pages from books, creating posters, and duplicating pictures.
THE WEBLOG, OR BLOG: Blogging tools make it trivial for anyone to publish their thoughts and opinions as text, images, photos, video, and audio on the Web, and come with a suite of functions to simplify linking to other blogs, copying blog posts from one blog to another, and syndicating the content of blogs to other websites.
THE VCR: This machine makes copies of over-the-air television broadcasts and can also play back copies made or sold by others. It allows users to record television programs and movies for viewing at their leisure, thus upsetting the careful pricing structure for television shows and advertising based upon the time of viewing. It also allows users to keep copies of shows and movies and watch them multiple times, without paying for each viewing, a process known as "librarying." Two machines can also be hooked up together to allow copying of copies, a process that can be used for commercial infringement as well as noncommercial infringement.
EMAIL - Email allows any Internet user (the sender) to send text messages, or any other kind of file, to one or more other Internet users (the recipients). If they choose, the recipients may then respond to the sender by drafting a subsequent email message.
AMERICAN TALIBAN: UTAH BANS INTERNET PORN SITES
DECLAN MCCULLAGH, CNET - Utah's governor signed a bill that would require Internet providers to block Web sites deemed pornographic and could also target e-mail providers and search engines. The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors." Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges.
Technology companies had urged Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman not to sign the bill, saying it was constitutionally suspect and worded so vaguely its full impact is still unclear. . . A federal judge struck down a similar law in Pennsylvania last year
WORDS
BILL MAHER - Senate Republicans are so committed to keeping this women alive that as a last ditch tactic today they subpoenaed her because it is a federal crime to harm someone who is called to testify before Congress. They said they didn't think she'd be a great witness but she had to be better then Mark McGwire.
GEORGE W. BUSH - That's how interest works. It compounds. It grows. Now, people say, what does that mean, a personal savings account? Can I take the money and go right down to the road where I was staying in this part of the world and put it in the slots? - Shreveport, Louisiana, Mar. 11. . .
There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not. But it's -- I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table. Washington, D.C., Mar. 16
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