NM judge says students can respond to RIAA John Doe suits

Wednesday, 06. 20. 2007  –  Category: News

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 [...]

reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

Friday, 06. 1. 2007  –  Category: News

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 [...]