shouting loudly

Senator John McCain faces two major political problems surrounding the issue of retroactive immunity for telecommunications firms that complied with the Bush administration’s warrantless (and thus, illegal) wiretapping program. Both point to larger weaknesses in the McCain campaign. First, McCain has been consistently inconsistent on whether he thinks companies should be let off the hook [...]

In a study of copyright holders’ automated tools for generating DMCA takedown notices, University of Washington researchers successfully demonstrate that these automated methods are hardly sound evidence of actual infringement. For the study, “Tracking the Trackers,” the researchers framed several innocent IP addresses, making it look like they were using BitTorrent to trade copyrighted content. [...]

I have a new article up on video game ratings and sales regulation at the International Journal of Communication, titled “Seeking Truth in Video Game Ratings: Content Considerations for Media Regulation.” This follows up and expands upon some of what I’ve been writing about here on Shouting Loudly (see posts here, here, and here). For [...]

Art Brodsky at Public Knowledge has a great post today assailing the Washington Post’s weekend editorial opposing mandated network neutrality. The line-by-line refutation is solid, but about halfway through, Brodsky points out that the Post has a big finger in the ISP pie. Through subsidiary Cable ONE, the Post made over $600m in 2007, much [...]