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...great David-and-Goliath story--humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks --but the complexity of the subject matter makes Crypto a slow read: encryption algorithms, export regulations and copyright wrangles, all of it crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don't say we didn't warn you). Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek, has also chosen a difficult hero in Whit Diffie. For all his brilliance, the shy, secretive math geek remains a cipher...
...have had direct, determinative impact on the antitrust case against Microsoft, in which he represented the U.S. government; the half-billion-dollar settlement of a suit by his art-buyer clients against the world's two leading art-auction companies, Sotheby's and Christie's; the essential meaning of copyright on the Internet, which he is trying to establish on behalf of the music website Napster; and, supremely, the Tallahassee passion play. Back at the time of the Pennzoil-Texaco match, cbs general counsel George Vradenburg, who a few years earlier hired Boies to defend the network in a huge...
...then Boies is on his feet, calmly elucidating--without notes, of course--the four essential points of his argument, his hands sometimes shaking the invisible box, his thumbs sometimes making a pair of goalposts. He cites page numbers and percentages and the specific copyright status of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and My Man Godfrey. Then the sun rises in the west: Boies asks the court's forbearance while he looks up a page number he cannot recall...
...legal restriction on a student's access to the Harvard network would be a serious problem. Harvard cannot insulate its students from the consequences of copyright infringement, and students should understand that they proceed at their own risk when they download copyrighted music...
Integrity and copyright issues might also highlight the flaws of online learning, considering the increased challenge of monitoring who has access to the programs...