Research and commentary on digital technologies in public life
As of today, Fritz’s Hit List is going on hiatus. It’s not that I have run out of examples for the list. I have many good ones left, and a few great ones like a musical chip-and-dip bowl. It’s just that I have made my point and I’m tired of having to write a new entry every day.
I’ll revive Fritz’s Hit List if the Hollings CBDTPA gets any closer to passage, or if a new bill with the same shortcomings is introduced. Until then, the first 29 entries are available in the archives.
Declan McCullagh reports that his Politech server has been blacklisted by SpamCop – for the third time. Longtime readers may recall this site being wrongly blacklisted by SpamCop in its early days. The scary part is that SpamCop is apparently one of the more responsible spam blacklisters.
Amy Wohl reports being on another blacklist.
UPDATE (3pm): Seth Finkelstein thinks he has diagnosed Amy’s Wohl’s problem.
Ted Bridis at the Associated Press reports that Friday’s rulings on the Microsoft case put on the Court’s website at 2:40 PM, about two hours before their official release. As in the Intentia/Reuters incident, the documents were put on the website in a guessable location, but without any links to them being released.
Slashdot published the news about the rulings’ availability at 3:30 PM, still about an hour before they were to be released. At this point, even the DOJ and Microsoft had not seen the rulings. The markets were still open at this point, and the trading price of Microsoft stock predictably went up.
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: logic analyzers.
These devices, which are standard equipment in electronics laboratories, record electrical signals in digital form, so they qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the Hollings CBDTPA. If the CBDTPA passes, any newly manufactured logic analyzers will have to incorporate government-approved copy restriction technology.
Fight piracy – regulate laboratory equipment!
[Thanks to John Zulauf for suggesting this item.]
Judge Kollar-Kotelly has announced that she will release her decisions in the Microsoft antitrust case tomorrow at 4:30 Eastern time.
