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• How stupid are you? Give away your ID info (576)
  An article on how susceptible people are to giving away their personal information - enough to allow the recipient to gain access to their credit cards and bank accounts - for the chance of winning theatre tickets or even less.
• Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 (495)
  Overbearing anti-piracy legislation introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) in the US Senate
• Earthlink Spy Audit (495)
  More information on spyware and privacy concerns
• Making an Airbus A380 video (482)
  A 7 minute video of the assembly of an Airbus A380 Aircraft - awsome!
• Patent Information (472)
  Groklaw's new page on Patent law
• The role of digital rights management in Open Access (462)
  Abstract: Growing conviction that scientific progress will significantly benefit if scholarly articles and research papers are made freely available on the Web has given rise to the Open Access (OA) movement. While there is some awareness that OA articles may require digital rights management (DRM), there is currently only low-level interest in the topic, with many OA advocates maintaining that it has no relevance to OA. The issue is complicated by the fact that there are currently two ways in which research papers are made OA, each of which has different implications from a rights point of view.
  
• How to Start a Startup (460)
  A great article that mirrors many of my experiences in the various startups I've been involved in.
• Educause Security Home Page (447)
  The Web site is intended to be a focal point of information and resources on computer and network security for the higher education community.
• Excellent talk on why DRM is not useful today (414)
  From a talk to Microsoft's DRM group, this gets into more detail than I do, and is worth reading if you have even the slightest interest in why you can't copy a DVD to VHS or why scientists and researchers are being thrown in jail for telling us why something is broken (and why some country's researchers are not going to the USA to give talks anymore.)
• Deconstructing stupidity (399)
  In two earlier columns on Europe’s database directive, and European public information, I pointed out that our policy-process is almost evidence-free. New rights are created on the basis of anecdote and scaremongering. There are other examples and they are not confined to Europe.