Josh Kroll, Ian Davey and I have a new paper on the dynamics of Bitcoin, which we’re going to release in a few days. This post is the first in a series exploring our paper’s analysis of why Bitcoin works and what could derail it. Consensus drives Bitcoin. Like any fiat currency (a currency not […]
Joel Reidenberg Named the Inaugural Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy
June 3, 2013 by
The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton is pleased to announce the appointment of the first-ever Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy. Professor Joel Reidenberg of Fordham Law School is a well-known scholar in internet law, privacy, and cybersecurity. While visiting, he will collaborate on research with the CITP community and teach an […]
Internet Voting Snafu at USRowing
May 29, 2013 by
USRowing, the governing body for the sport of rowing in the U.S., recently announced the discovery of likely fraud in one of its leadership elections. Further investigation into this region’s voting resulted in the determination that fraudulent ballots were cast in the Mid-Atlantic election that directly affected the outcome of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of […]
Arlington v. FCC: What it Means for Net Neutrality
May 24, 2013 by
[Cross-posted on my blog, Managing Miracles] On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Arlington v. FCC. At issue was a very abstract legal question: whether the FCC has the right to interpret the scope of its own authority in cases in which congress has left the contours of their jurisdiction ambiguous. In […]
Open-Source 3D Printing and Copyright Reform: It’s Time to Revisit Personal Use Copying
May 21, 2013 by
Last week, I attended MSU’s Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law, where I saw a wonderful presentation by Joshua Pearce, an engineering and material sciences professor from Michigan Tech, on “distributed open-source digital manufacturing” (a.k.a. open-source 3D printing). The hardware Joshua presented is called RepRap: RepRap takes the form of a free desktop […]
