A new challenge to the DMCA

According to this this NEWS.COM report, the ACLU have challenged the DMCA using an ingenious angle. A Harvard researcher investigating the encrypted block-lists used by filtering software companies wants to crack the encryption so that he can assess how effective the programs are. But that would constitute creating an anti-circumvention device, wouldn’t it? See you in court.

Ah, the poor, coy New York Times — cannot bring itself to say ‘fuckedcompany.com’

“The publisher of the Web site whose name is a vulgarism for “failed company” plans to spin off part of that site into a new unit. Drawing from a deep well of material sent by fans of corporate comeuppance, Philip J. Kaplan said he would roll out a new site, InternalMemos.com, this morning.

On it, readers can sample some of the more than 800 examples of internal business correspondence sent to Mr. Kaplan over the last three years by aggrieved employees of various companies. …”. [More.]