Ben Edelman - Media Coverage

This is an archived page, listing content as of January 2004.

Ben Edelman Media Coverage [ Bio | Publications | Media Coverage | Invited Presentations ]

The listings below reflect a portion of media coverage and other citations of Ben's recent work.

Expert Report, Testimony, and Appendices for Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al. challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act. (October 2001 - April 2002)

• "Filter schmilter." Caslon Analytics Analysphere. November 5, 2001.
• "The Filtering Follies." Crawford at Large. December 2001.
• "The Filtering/Censorware Follies." Crawford at Large. April 2003.
• "Children's Internet Protection Act voided; Judges: Internet filters used by libraries too crude to be effective." Cox News Service. May 31, 2002.
• "Student Testifies in Internet Suit." Harvard Crimson. April 4, 2002.
• "Study in CIPA Case: Filters Inevitably Flawed." Library Journal. November 7, 2001.
• Letter to the Editor. Los Angeles Times. June 12, 2002.
• "Filters, Schools Like Oil, Water." Wired. September 6, 2002.
• "Full Assault on Filter Software." Wired. April 3, 2002.
• Opinion in Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. May 31, 2002.

Domains Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content: A Case Study of "Tina's Free Live Webcam" (March - April 2002)

• "'Porn-napping' riles Internet users as hijacked sites multiply." Agence France Presse. May 30, 2002.
• CNN Headline News. April 24, 2002.
• IP Law, Politics, and Technology on the Net. Copyfight. April 25, 2002.
• "Expired domains present opportunity for Net porn." Detroit Free Press. May 16, 2002.
• "Porn Outfit Pounces on Web Site of Detroit Club." Detroit Free Press. September 19, 2002.
• "Best of the Web - Four Stars." Emerald Abstracts. June, 2002.
• "'Porn-napping' is rubbing users the wrong way." Independent Online - South Africa. May 30, 2002.
• "Daily Update." Polygon, the Dancing Bear. May 14, 2002.
• "Tina's forgotten domain." The Times (London). May 1, 2002.
• "Over 4,500 Domains Point Users To Webcam Porn Site." Washington Post Newsbytes. April 22, 2002.
• "Ivy Leaguer Uncovers Interesting Domain Data." Adult Video News Online. May 24, 2002.
• "Pedro Latorre Beroiz v. Domain Strategy, Inc. (UDRP Decision)." WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. August 5, 2002.
• Coverage also available in Bulgarian, French (1, 2), German, Korean, Russian, Spanish (1, 2), and Turkish.

Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia. (May - July 2002)

• "Porno Alert - Government condemns website. The Accra Mail. August 27, 2002.
• "Saudis block 2,000 websites." BBC News. July 31, 2002.
• "US software firm aids Saudi censors." The Boston Globe. July 17, 2002.
• "How to Break The Net Without Really Trying." Broadband Networking News. July 30, 2002.
• "Saudi Arabia Blocks Religious Websites." Christianity Today. August 7, 2002.
• "Boycott: The Right Move?" eWeek. July 22, 2002.
• "Filtering the Filters." Network World Fusion. July 25, 2002.
• "Saudi Censorship of Web Ranges Far Beyond Tenets of Islam, Study Finds." New York Times. August 29, 2002.
• "The Islamic Terrorism Club." The Weekly Standard. November 10, 2003.
• "Can This Marriage Be Saved?." New York Times. November 1, 2002.
• "Why Countries Make Sites Unseen." Wired News. July 18, 2002.
• "Harvard study cites Saudis as leading Internet censor." World Tribune. October 23, 2002.
• "Go Digital." BBC News Radio. July 29, 2002.
• "Future Tense." Minnesota Public Radio. July 29, 2002. Broadcast and unedited interview.
• Coverage also available in Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, and Spanish.

Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China and Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China. (March 2002 - January 2003)

• "China blocks off tenth of Internet." Agence France Presse. December 5, 2002.
• "Harvard student finds China blocks hundreds of websites." Agence France Presse. September 6, 2002.
• "TECHSPLOITATION: Public Domain." Alternet. September 16, 2002.
• "China's Internet censorship focus of study." Australian Broadcasting Corporation. December 5, 2002.
• "China using more sophisticated censorship technology to control Internet." Associated Press. September 11, 2002.
• "Taiwan Sites Among Most Blocked in China." Associated Press. December 3, 2002.
• "Net sites blocked by China go from expected to bizarre." Boston Globe. December 5, 2002.
• "Is Your Web Site Available in China?." Business Week Online. September 16, 2002.
• "The Great Firewall of China." Business Week. September 23, 2002.
• "China Net Filtering." BBC's The World. December 11, 2002.
• "China blocks news not porn online." BBC News. December 5, 2002.
• "China 'blocks 10% of websites'." BBC News. December 4, 2002.
• "China 'blocking Google'." BBC News. September 2, 2002.
• "The Internet: Beyond the Great Firewall" China Economic Quarterly. November 11, 2002.
• "Tech Watch: China's Firewall." CNN. February 27, 2003.
• "Tens of thousands of web sites now blocked in China." The Enquirer. December 3, 2002.
• "Chinese government blocks Web sites like Amnesty, the BBC." The Enquirer. August 31, 2002.
• "HLS Team Shows Chinese Web Filtering Widespread." The Harvard Crimson. October 4, 2002.
• "Through a Filter, Darkly." Harvard Law Bulletin. Summer 2003.
• "China's 'Great Firewall' limits Internet." The International Herald Tribune. October 1, 2002.
• "China's Filtering Tech Evolving." internetnews.com. December 5, 2002.
• "China Authorities Battle Hard to Tighten the Web." Los Angeles Times. January 13, 2004.
• "Experts Discuss China's 'two-edged' Approach to Internet." National Journal Technology Daily. March 14, 2003.
• "Google mirror beats Great Firewall of China." New Scientist. September 6, 2002.
• "Google keywords knock Chinese surfers offline." New Scientist. September 13, 2002.
• "On-off access for Google in China." New Scientist. September 13, 2002.
• "China Has World's Tightest Internet Censorship, Study Finds." New York Times. December 4, 2002.
• "Web Writer's Block: Investigating Internet Censorship Around the World." New York Times Learning Network. December 5, 2002.
• "A World Map to Outwit Web Censors." New York Times Learning Network. June 26, 2003.
• "China blocks ABC website." News Interactive. September 19, 2002.
• "China pressed on ABC ban." News Interactive. September 24, 2002.
• "The Shrinking Frontiers." Online Journalism Review. November 21, 2002.
• "China's Great net Firewall fans flames of censorship." The Observer. December 8, 2002.
• "Filter Tips: What Europe can learn from China's censors." Reason Online. December 5, 2002.
• "China Blocks Internet 'Blog' Sites, Users Say." Reuters. January 14, 2003.
• "Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters." Slashdot. August 31, 2002.
• "Google Disappears in China." Slashdot. September 2, 2002.
• "Probe into blocked Net sites." The South China Morning Post. September 4, 2002.
• "China says asta la vista to Altavista." VNUNET. September 6, 2002.
• "Study: Chinese Government Blocks Thousands of Websites." Voice of America News. December 4, 2002.
• "New Study Finds Internet May Not Be Opening Up China." Voice of America News. December 17, 2002.
• "China Blocks Web Search Engines." Washington Post. September 12, 2002.
• "In China, Some Regain Access to Google Site." Washington Post. September 13, 2002.
• "Caught in the Web." The Weekly Standard. December 19, 2002.
• "An Inside Look at China Filters." Wired News. December 4, 2002.
• Coverage also available in Dutch, French, German (1, 2, 3, 4), Japanese (1, 2, 3), Korean, and Spanish (1, 2).

Edelman v. N2H2, Inc. (July 2002)

• Civil liberties group sues over 'flawed' web filters. Ananova. July 26, 2002.
• Judge dismisses suit challenging technology copyright law. Associated Press. April 9, 2003.
• ACLU Challenges Digital Copyright Law. Associated Press. July 25, 2002.
• ACLU Files Suit vs. Tech Copyright. Associated Press. July 25, 2002.
• N2H2 Sued by ACLU over Internet Filter Program. Bloomberg News. July 25, 2002.
• ACLU sues firm over its filtering software. Boston Globe. July 26, 2002.
• ACLU wants list showing banned sites. Boston Herald. July 26, 2002.
• Law Student Sues Web-Filtering Company in a Challenge to Millennium Copyright Act. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 26, 2002.
• Logging in with... Benjamin Edelman. Chronicle of Higher Education. August 2, 2002.
• Web-Filtering Company Asks Judge to Throw Out Law Student's Suit. The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 3, 2002.
• ACLU loses digital copyright battle. c|net cews.com. April 9, 2003.
• On trial: Digital copyright law. c|net news.com. July 25, 2002.
• Digital copyright law on trial. c|net news.com. October 30, 2002.
• Suit Says First Amendment Allows Reverse Engineering Of 'Censorware.' Computer & Online Industry Litigation Reporter. August 27, 2002
• Edelman vs. N2H2: Can He Hack It? Copyfight. July 25, 2002.
• ACLU Sues to Get Internet Blocking List. Family News In Focus. July 31, 2002.
• ACLU Represents Harvard Student in Internet Filtering Case. Harvard Crimson. August 2, 2002.
• ACLU challenging '98 copyright law. Hollywood Reporter. July 26, 2002.
• ACLU takes on copyright law over block lists. IDG News. July 25, 2002.
• Minnow mounts legal challenge to Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Inquirer. November 1, 2002.
• Suit Says First Amendment Allows Reverse Engineering of Censorware. Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter. September 3, 2002.
• New challenge to copyright law. Internet Magazine. October 31, 2002.
• Bill for Anti-Piracy Sheild Proposed. Los Angeles Times. July 26, 2002.
• Interview (RealAudio). Future Tense with John Gordon. Minnesota Public Radio. July 26, 2002.
• PM Update - Courts. National Journal Technology Daily. July 25, 2002.
• Filtering Firm Asks Judge To Dismiss Student's Lawsuit. National Journal's Technology Daily. October 4, 2002.
• Technology Briefing: Internet. New York Times. July 26, 2002.
• Web Filtering Lawsuit Challenges U.S. Copyright Law. Reuters. July 25, 2002.
• Net-filter firm N2H2 is sued by the ACLU. Seattle Post Intelligencer. July 26, 2002.
• ACLU Challenges Censorware, DMCA. 2600 News. July 27, 2002.
• US Union Defends Hacker Code. vnunet. July 26, 2002.
• ACLU Takes on Copyright Law. Wall Street Journal. July 26, 2002.
• Researcher Seeks Permission to Crack Internet Filtering Software. Washington Internet Daily. July 26, 2002.

Localized Google Search Result Exclusions. (October 2002)

• "Report: Sites Missing from Google." Associated Press. October 24, 2002.
• "Google censoring web content." BBC News. October 25, 2002.
• "Harvard researches find Google censoring controversial info." Boston Globe. October 25, 2002.
• "Google excluding controversial sites." c|net news.com. October 24, 2002.
• "Racist sites excluded from Google listings." Europe Media News. October 25, 2002.
• "Google Found Censoring Extremist Websites." The Harvard Crimson. October 28, 2002.
• "Google excludes sites from French, German listings." IDG News Service. October 25, 2002.
• "Google Filters Sites in France and Germany." internetnews.com. October 24, 2002.
• "The World According to Google." Newsweek. December 16, 2002.
• "Study Tallies Sites Blocked by Google." New York Times. October 25, 2002.
• "Google Filters Sites in France and Germany." Newsfactor Network. October 25, 2002.
• "Lawyers criticise Google for 'secret' censorship." South Africa Broadcasting Corporation. November 3, 2002.
• "Google vs. Evil." Wired. January 2003.
• "Future Tense." Minnesota Public Radio. October 25, 2002.
• Coverage also available in Danish, French (1, 2), German (1, 2, 3, 4), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese (1, 2), and Spanish (1, 2).

Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses: Prevalence and Significance. (February 2003)

• "Civil liberties group to protest Internet blocking law." Associated Press. February 19, 2003.
• "Court ponders Web site-blocking law." c|net news.com. Janaury 6, 2004
• "Group questions state site-blocking law." c|net news.com. April 23, 2003.
• "Net Blocking Threatens Legitimate Sites." c|net news.com. February 19, 2003.
• "Foes of Site-Blocking Law Win a Round." c|net news.com. September 9, 2003.
• "The Filtering/Censorware Follies." Crawford at Large. April 2003.
• "CDT Report Calls Pennsylvania ISP Law Unconstitutional." National Journal Technology Daily. February 20, 2003.
• "CDT attacks anti-child porn law." Online Casino News. February 20, 2003.
• "Net Blocking Threatens I-Gaming Sites." The Register. February 20, 2003.
• "Pa. Won't Force Providers to Block Porn." Associated Press. September 9, 2003.
• Testimony of Stewart Baker in Hearing on Proposals to Regulate Illegal Internet Gambling. U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. March 18, 2003.

Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting. (May 2003)

• "Harvard study wrestles with Gator." c|net news.com. May 22, 2003.
• "Harvard only understands 20% of pure evil." Gamers with Jobs. May 23, 2003.
• "Somebody's Watching." Financial Times Information / Global News Wire. June 18, 2003.
• "Pop-ups Prove Profitable, Persistent." MSNBC. November 20, 2003.
• "Gator Examined." Slashdot. May 23, 2003.
• "Loose Wire: Online Ad Attack - It's Pop-Up Hell." Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2003. (Paid registration required)
• Additional coverage in German (1, 2), Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish.

Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch. (April 2003)

• "Google Filters Gaggle Non-Porn Sites: Report." Adult Video News. April 10, 2003.
• "Report Criticizes Google's Porn Filters." c|net news.com. April 10, 2003.
• "Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter." Search Engine Watch. April 16, 2003.
• "Future Tense." Minnesota Public Radio. April 11, 2003. Broadcast.
• Coverage also available in Dutch, French, German, and Japanese
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Intentionally Invalid Whois Data. (September 2003)

• "Lawmakers: Domain name oversight too lax." Reuters. September 4, 2003.

.NAME Registrations Not Conforming to .NAME Registration Restrictions. (May 2002)

• "Domains: The Rules Of The .name Game" National Journal Technology Daily. June 3, 2002.
• "Many Dot-Name Domains Break The Rules - Study." Washington Post Newsbytes. May 31, 2002.
• Afternoon Show with Tracy Romine. c|net Radio. May 31, 2002.
• "Three Member Panel Issues Win To AOL, Important Decision on Supplemental Filings." UDRPlaw.net. June 3, 2002

Survey of Usage of the .BIZ TLD. (June 2002)

• "Internet Week - Firms Keep .BIZ Sites Vacant." VNU NET. July 8, 2002.

Registrations in Open ccTLDs. (June - July 2002)

• "Domain-Statistik - Harvard-Studie ueber Exoten-Domains". DomainValet. August 1, 2002. (in German)

Analysis of Registrations in the ARNI .BIZ Top-Level Domain and Analysis of Registrations in the IOD .WEB Top-Level Domain. (June 2001)

• "New TLDs." Caslon Analytics Analysphere. June 25, 2001.
• "Report Questions Timing of Rollout of Alternate .biz TLD." Washington Internet Daily. June 21, 2001.

Alternative Perspectives on Registrar Market Share: The Fortune 1000, the Forbes International 500, and the Yahoo Directory. (May 2002)

• "Analysts question VeriSign's health." c|net news.com. June 4, 2002.
• "News, May 19, 2002." Netzindex Internetkatalog und Suchmaschine. (in German)

Technical Responses to Unilateral Internet Authority: The Deployment of VeriSign "Site Finder" and ISP Response and Quantifying Traffic to VeriSign Site Finder. (September - October 2003)

• "Many give the slip to VeriSign's "SiteFinder"." c|net news.com. October 6, 2003.
• "VeriSign and Critics Debate Site Finder Stability. Computer Business Review Online. October 16, 2003.
• "Study Reveals How ISPs Responded to Site Finder. Slashdot. October 7, 2003.
• "VeriSign Responds (Publicly) to SiteFinder Outcry." internet.com. September 23, 2003.
• Additional coverage in French.

Expert Declaration in Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, LLC, et al. v. the Gator Corporation. (June 2002)

• "Web sites sue over pop-up ads." Bloomberg News. October 14, 2002.

Initial and Supplemental Expert Declarations in National Football League, et al., v. TVRADIONOW Corporation (iCraveTV). (January - February 2000)

• "U.S. court order keeps iCraveTV off the Internet: 'We'll be back': Canadian Web site mulls appeal, may seek settlement." Financial Post. February 9, 2000.
• "Just like old times." The National Law Journal. April 17, 2000.
• Lawrence Lessig. The Future of Ideas. 2001. (p 190-192)

The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com. (September 2001 - March 2002)

• "Hoopes Prize Winners Announced." Harvard Crimson. May 15, 2002.
• Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize for Best Honors Thesis in Economics

ICANN Public Meeting Webcast & Remote Participation Systems. (November 1999 - November 2001)

• "The show must go on ... the Web." E-Commerce News. March 13, 2001.

Flaws in buy.com privacy and security systems. (October 2000)

• "Glitch reveals Buy.com customer information." c|net news.com. October 12, 2000.
• "Glitch temporarily exposes some Buy.com customer data." CNN. October 17, 2000.
• "Security Breached at Buy.com". eBiz Daily. October 16, 2000.
• "The Bug That Bugged Buy.com." Internet News. October 13, 2000.
• "Security Breach at Buy.com." Wired. October 12, 2000.
• MP3 transmission archive (story begins 3:18 into this file). Internet News Radio. October 12, 2000 - morning show.
• Simson Garfinkel. Web Security, Privacy and Commerce. 2002. (p xii)

My work generally.

• "Computer Whiz-Kid Toils To Save the Internet's Soul." The Wall Street Journal. September 16, 2002. (Paid registration required)
• "Computer Prodigy Settles Down at HLS." Harvard Crimson. April 9, 2003.
• "Campus Briefs: Freedom Fighter." Harvard Law Today. September 2002.
• "Web Writer's Block: Investigating Internet Censorship Around the World." New York Times Learning Network. December 5, 2002.

Miscellaneous.

• "Kazaa's Founder Peddles Software to Speed File Sharing." Wall Street Journal. September 8, 2003.

Testimony transcripts, additional media coverage, and other documents are available upon request.

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