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In the latest bit of DMCA lunacy, copyright guru David Nimmer turned me onto a case that his firm is defending, where a garage door opener company (The Chamberlain Group) has leveled a DMCA claim (among other claims) against the maker of universal garage door remotes (Skylink). Yet another case where the anti-circumvention provisions of…

The .mil domain is to be locked down so as to prevent terrorists gaining acces to sensitive information, Donald Rumsfeld has said. I hope they tighten it up good because there is an awful lot of information available at defenselink.mil.

A guy who once worked for the RIAA, has revealed their methods for monitoring peer to peer networks like the now defunct Napster, and new Gnutella, Morpheus and Kazaa programs. He admits that he suggested poisoning the networks with bogus files so as to disrupt and frustrate file sharing on the Internet. Interesting reading.

Two MIT students have found that hard drives can reveal lots of information about their previous owners. In a study they found that most hard drives still have information on them even after deletion or formatting. So next time you sell a hard drive to somebody make sure you write over all that porn.