CS 3111
Computer Ethics
| Fall 2009
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Writing Assignments
Links
- Resources
- News articles
- Can You Patent a Cat and a Laser Pointer?
The Supreme Court takes on frivolous patents, and might end up eliminating protection for software.article
- Bootleg Nation
How strict are Chinese copyright laws?article
- China Expands Cyberspying in U.S., Report Says:
Congressional Advisory Panel in Washington Cites Apparent Campaign by Beijing to Steal Information From American Firmsarticle
- Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?: How does fair-use law work, anyway? article
- Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen ‘Nook’ E-Reader (Updated); article
- Finland makes broadband access a legal right; article
- Net Cemetery: Comcast, the biggest threat to free speech since Nixon; article
- Gang of 100 Phishers Charged in U.S., Egypt; article
- PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account for Distributing Hacking Tools; article
- Former Teen Stock Swindler Pleads to New Hacking Charges; article
- FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records; article
- Save the Google Book Search Deal!; article
- Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project; article
- FCC's Genachowski Proposes Modest Net Neutrality Expansion; article
- Piracy kiosk pops up in Germany; article
- Hacking the Regime: How the Falun Gong empowered the Iranian uprising; article
- 1.2bn population of India to be given biometric ID cards; article
- Obama Embraces Patriot Act; As Senator, He Was Skeptical; article
- The Globalization of Censorship; article
- Learn how to protect yourself from identity theft; article
- Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe; article
- 3.9M or 7M? Behind the UK's dodgy file-sharing numbers; article
- ''Anonymized'' data really isn't -- and here's why not; article
- Goodbye, DRM; hello ''stealable'' Digital Personal Property; article
- RIAA Lawsuit Campaign Losing Credibility: Releases Comprehensive Report on Five Years of File-Sharing Litigation; article
- Don't Bet on It:
The Silly War on Internet Gambling; article
- Wal-Mart Latest Music Store to Deactivate DRM; article
- Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid; article
- Apple in legal hot water in Norway because of iTunes DRM; article
- Test Center: Sandbox security versus the evil Web; article
- Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe; article
- Online poker fraud revealed; article
- Congress poised to pass Internet radio legislation; article
- Microsoft, Washington state sue over 'scareware' pop-up ads; article
- Spam king's conviction reversed; article
- DECE -- Lipstick on the DRM pig; article
- Government elaborates, slightly, on cybersecurity plan; article
- Ars puts Spore DRM to the test -- with a surprising result; article
- Google Chrome's open-source ally: Microsoft; article
- Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack; article
- Tim Berners Lee goes postal on spam; article
- $1bn lawsuit takes novel approach in fighting spam; article
- Transformers ... Now in Streaming Video!: The latest trend in online movie piracy; article
- Diddy Could Save Sampling: Why hasn't he or any other big-name rapper even tried?; article
- Lessons vary from Radiohead experiment; article
- Viacom's true desire: one copyright filter to rule them all; article
- The Dog Ate My Evidence: What happens when the government can't re-create the case against you?;
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- The conjurer's dilemma; how magicians protect their tricks; article
- American lawbreaking: how laws die; article
- Google's evil eye: does the big G know too much about us?; article
- AP sues US news aggregator for copyright infringement and trademark abuse;
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- P2P researchers: use a blocklist or you will be tracked...100% of the time;
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- Civil Disobedience on the web: British bloggers stand up to threats of libel lawsuits; href="http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/">article
- RIAA trial verdict is in: jury finds Thomas liable for infringement; article
- Minnesota jury orders woman to pay RIAA $222,000 for illegal music sharing; article
- The rise of the 'good enough' technology economy; article
- Analysis: RIAA wants universities to do its dirty work; article
- Experts rank Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts; article
- MPAA wants deeper relationship (read: content filtering) with ISPs ; article