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Guest on This Week in Law #72

Kevin A. Thompson — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:03:29 +0000

I was pleased to be asked back on Denise Howell‘s excellent show, This Week In Law.

The other guests were Alex Macgillivray and Jonathan Bailey.

To download Episode 72 in either audio or video formats please follow the link here, or search for the show in iTunes. Or watch it on YouTube.

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Are Open Source Toyotas Neutrally Networked?

Kevin A. Thompson — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:16:44 +0000

I was pleased to be asked back on the This Week In Law podcast for Episode #60, entitled “Open Source Toyotas.” Here’s a link to the audio – http://www.twit.tv/twil60. Video is available on Blip.

Denise Howell is the host, and guests are myself, Marty Schwimmer, and Xeni Jardin. It was fun!

Also, I was pleased to speak today to the Chicago Bar Association‘s Cyber Law and Data Privacy Committee regarding Network Neutrality along with my friend Evan Brown. Thanks to Chris McGeehan for the invitation.

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Guest on This Week In Law Podcast #59

Kevin A. Thompson — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:57:08 +0000

I was pleased to be asked to participate in the This Week In Law Podcast, Episode #59. The episode is entitled “Praying at the Bar.”

The hosts were Denise Howell and Evan Brown, and my co-guest was Marty Schwimmer. It was quite a panel!

For the audio and the show notes: http://twit.tv/twil59

For the video: http://blip.tv/file/3595192/

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Guest on Lawyer 2 Lawyer Podcast: “Privacy and Piracy: Viacom v. YouTube”

Kevin A. Thompson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:42 +0000

I was honored to be asked to participate on the excellent Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on the topic of the recent stipulation entered into between Viacom and YouTube (Google) over user data that the Judge in that case ordered to be turned over to Viacom. My fellow guest was Lauren Gelman, the Executive Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, and the discussion was very good. Of course, the hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, did their typically great job as well. I regularly listen to show during my commute, so it was fun to be on it for a change.

Please feel free to leave comments on the podcast here.

Here is a link to the show page, where you can download the show or listen online. You can also use the links on the left side of the page to subscribe to the show in Itunes.

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Compelling audio – Interview with Kevin Werbach

Kevin A. Thompson — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:10:34 +0000

I’m interested in the impact of the digital world on our society. In an interview with Tech Nation, Kevin Werbach of Wharton College and founder of the Supernova conference touches on that impact. He also touches on some mistakes made during his tenure with the FCC, such as the Communications Decency Act. Of course, that particular failure isn’t his fault, but he does he have an interesting perspective.

All in all, it’s an entertaining 20 minutes. Too bad some of the issues aren’t covered in more depth, but it still is worth a listen.

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Open Source: Craigslist

Kevin A. Thompson — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:51:58 +0000

Christopher Lydon’s outstanding public radio show called Open Source is available as a podcast. This morning on my commute I listened to the February 7th show about Craigslist and its implications for generating community on the Internet. Here is a link to the show which you can download and listen on any MP3 player or personal computer.

What struck me was the community generated around sites like Craigslist, there is some discussion on the show of its societal impact. One of the guests, Tom Sander, had this to say:

There are two potential benefits of a site like Craigslist. One is that it actually enables new connections to form, whether it’s a backgammon partner, or a friend with benefits, or a missed connection that becomes a connection. But I think the other value is that … if people have 20 different micro transactions, one who returns their ipod, and a nanny that they hire that seems trustworthy, and a person to meet for sushi on Tuesday night, that all those things together start to change their nature about other people in their community…

Many other Internet technologies are isolating, allowing people to get more done without having to socialize with real people. Craigslist is different – it builds a sense of community and lets people interact. At the end of the show, David Cleaves, a Mandolin player in Lowell, MA played beautifully. The show had placed an ad in the local Craigslist looking for a musician, and found one willing to come in to the studio. Now *that’s* community.

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Participatory Panopticon

Kevin A. Thompson — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:01:43 +0000

Jamais Cascio’s talk from Mesh Forum 2005 entitled “participatory panopticon” is very interesting, it regards the societal changes that come from mobile phones with digital cameras and other always on mobile networked tools. The Panopticon was Jeremy Bentham’s proposed prison where the inmates could be watched all the time. Mr. Cascio’s idea is that we will be soon living in a ‘participatory’ panopticon where the people voluntarily take the part of the warden. Instead of big brother, there are a lot of little brothers and sisters with cell phones.

As cell phones get better, imagine a world where politicians won’t know whether they are being recorded at any particular time. Look at what happened with Abu Ghraib – individuals with a digital camera and network access changed the public perception of the war in Iraq. Look at Rodney King – an individual with a video camera changed the public perception of the police. Recently, a plane crash in Miami was recorded by a man on vacation who happened to be recording at the time.

An interesting new concept is personal memory assistance. A first generation device allows you to record the last thirty seconds of what you have seen. It’s bulky and has a limited battery life. As these get better, imagine the copyright issues. Since meat memories are imperfect, nobody cares if you remember a copyrighted song imperfectly. When memories become perfect, then you could enter a situation where a license is needed to remember. Memory assistance devices would be required to be deactivated in movie theaters and other performance spaces. The backlash could come only when people feel restricted on their ability to remember. The more the people feel these devices are important to their lifestyle the less likely that they will accept restrictions on their use.

Always on networked devices that can record important events are an important tool to implement an ethos of citizen journalism. When the average person can record, upload, and share easily, as these devices become ubiquitous, then we come closer to the world envisioned by Mr. Cascio.

UPDATED TO ADD: Geek Press has a link to a great article on the use of cameras on public property.

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Guest on Internet Cases Podcast

Kevin A. Thompson — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:31:01 +0000

My thanks to Evan Brown who asked me to be a guest on his InternetCases.com podcast to discuss the recent controversy over RSS Hijacking. I’ve written about hijacking here and here. Also interviewed is Rick Klau, the Vice President of Business Development for Feedburner. I was fortunate to meet Rick at Blawgthink 2005.

The podcast can be downloaded from this link: InternetCases.com December 7, 2005 Podcast

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Firestorm over Sony DRM continues

Kevin A. Thompson — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:29:30 +0000

So, just what was Sony thinking? Now that the first class-action lawsuit has been filed in California, I’m sure more details on that topic will eventually emerge. Since Sony licenses the software from First 4, it may not have known all of the niceties of just how the software worked. I would not be surprised if First 4 will be required to indemnify Sony from the lawsuits over the use of its software.

So what else has happened since my last post?

A trojan is circulating via email that takes advantage of the poorly-written Sony DRM software to hide itself .

The uninstaller isn’t perfect. From Marc Russinovich, the first person to write about the software, the following flaws remain:

There is no way for customers to find the patch from Sony BMG’s main web page

The patch decloaks in an unsafe manner that can crash Windows, despite my warning to the First 4 Internet developers

Access to the uninstaller is gated by two forms and an ActiveX control

The uninstaller is locked to a single computer, preventing deployment in a corporation

The DRM apparently “phones home” to a Sony server, allowing Sony to keep track of exactly what users are playing on their computers. Add this to the list of “features” not disclosed in Sony’s EULA.

For a fun look at all of the things Sony’s EULA doesn’t let the user legally do, see Cory Doctorow’s excellent skewering on Boing Boing.

According to this article, Microsoft is still analyzing the situation to determine whether its anti-spyware and malware software will detect and remove Sony’s installation.

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