My earlier blog entry questioning CacheLogic’s statistics about BitTorrent and peer-to-peer usage on today’s Internet stirred up a small controversy. I was criticized in private e-mail and even in a public posting to Dave Farber’s list. In a snarky public attack, Brett Glass said folks should be skeptical of me since I’m an “advocate […]

I flew down to Austin, Texas, at the end of last week to help argue for maintaining the elected editor position at the The Daily Texan. There’s a decent Austin American-Statesman account of the whole controversy here, and a pic of me trying to make a point (or demonstrating the hula) here in the […]

I attended the 2005 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in Seattle, and was struck by a couple of things. First of all, the conference was fairly sedate — in many and perhaps most previous years of the 15-year-old conference, the week’s events have been punctuated by some external event that created lots of attention. […]

I think it remains appropriate to be skeptical about CacheLogic’s claims that BitTorrent or other P2P applications are taking up 60-80 percent of all Internet bandwidth. Why? Because their “studies” making such claims seem to be nothing more than press releases about their proprietary products that they hope to persuade ISPs and others to […]

Any of us who’ve had to deal over the years with the law relating to pornography necessarily has had to deal with the writings of Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Now that Dworkin has just died , it’s as good a time as any to reflect on her work and how it helped or […]

What with last week’s hectic schedule — the oral argument in the Supreme Court over the Grokster case, last-minute filings in the broadcast-flag challenge, and various concerns over the student newspaper at my alma mater — I didn’t get much of a chance to blog last week.
Still, I have had the chance to read what […]