Archive for June, 2007

NM judge says students can respond to RIAA John Doe suits

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 June 20, 2007parker

In a victory for college students who are also file-sharers (at last count, nearly all) and the American justice system, a judge in New Mexico has issued a ruling that blocks the RIAA’s usual method issuing subpoenas to identify file-sharers. Basically, the RIAA would usually file ex parte applications to reveal the identity of […]

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reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

Friday, June 1st, 2007 June 1, 2007Fred

Well this is very cool. Andrew showed me reCAPTCHA. The idea is to use a little test that kills two birds with one stone. One of the birds is comment spam (though Akismet and Spam Karma 2 have been doing a wonderful job here). And the other bird is the hard-to-recognize digitizations of public domain […]

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