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A Message From Lawrence Lessig Today: An Urgent Plea

Lawrence published this message last night from New Zealand:
Winning Tuesday: An urgent plea to Obama supporters.

I awoke in New Zealand today to an article in the New Zealand Herald,
and I had a strange sense of deja vu. It is still Monday in America.
And like the Monday before the 2004 election, and the Monday before
the 2000 election, there is enormous confidence among Democrats that
we are going to win this.
But as with 2000, and 2004, I have become a bit terrified about where
we’ll be Tuesday. For as presented by the New Zealand Herald, however
optimistic the static view of the swing states is, the dynamic view

Does Anyone Have The Lessig West Wing Episode?

Hi guys,
I’m trying to locate either a small clip or the entire West Wing episode where Larry Lessig is portrayed.
I’ve been contacted by a lot of folks looking for it, and I’d love to have it in the library, so please gimmie a ping if you have it and we can coordinate getting me a copy so I can make it available for everyone.
thanks!
lisa
lisarein@finetuning.com

Video And Audio Of Party From “Meet Ro Khanna” Party At Larry Lessig’s House

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Larry Lessig threw a party at his house Monday night for Congressional Candidate Ro Khanna.
Here’s the audio and video from the party.
The files are named so you can tell what they are. They include introductions by Larry Lessig and Jeff Bleich, Ro’s speech, a clip of Ro talking about the Patriot Act, and Ro conducting and Q and A session after his speech. The “all” files contain everything.

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ILAW 2003 – Day 2 – July 1, 2003 AM 2 Of 2 – Lawrence Lessig On The Importance Of The Web’s End To End Architecture

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The most important point:

End to end character of the web.
How this was a design choice.
Intelligence is at the edges. Network is simple.
Dominant monopoly can’t control/discriminate.
Can’t see who people are.
Can’t forbid certain uses.
This was a fundamental architectural choice.


Larry On End-to-End – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 69 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 59 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 74 MB)























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ILAW 2003 – Day 1 – June 30, 2003 – PM 1 of 2 – Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain On Jurisdiction

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In this session, Larry and Jonathan tag team in order to play devil’s advocate across an array of Jurisdictional issues, using the situation of accessing porn over the internet and all of the case law surrounding it as the basis for discussion.
Ack! These links were bad this am – should be fixed now!
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 53 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 50 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 5 of 5 (Small – 53 MB)













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ILAW 2003 – Day 1 – June 30, 2003 – AM 2 of 2 – Lawrence Lessig – Regulation In Meatspace and Cyberspace

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About these notes and videos — how the files are named, etc.
Here’s Lessig’s own description of the Monday morning sessions:

“The point (of Jonathan’s session) is to layout some framework for the technology. And the objective of this second part of the morning is to lay out the framework about how to think through these questions of regulation in the context of cyberspace by thinking through a little bit about the question of regulation in real space.”

Larry June 30 – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 41 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 45 MB)

















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Q and A With Felten and Lessig At Law And Tech of DRM 2003 Panel

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Here’s the Q and A session that followed the presentations I posted earlier from Felten and Lessig.
It’s full of the usual jewels of wisdom and insight that tend to show up when these two are around. Plus, food for thought from Hal Albeson and Hewlett-Packard’s John Erickson.
Q and A With Felten, Lessig, Albeson and Erickson – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 16 MB)
Q and A With Felten, Lessig, Albeson and Erickson Part 2 of 2 (Small – 12 MB)
Here’s a transcript.