Russ Kick’s site has been re-launched, to fill all your FOIA and secret Government document needs.
Announcement.
The Memory Hole.
For newbs:
The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. This includes:
• Government files
• Corporate memos
• Court documents (incl. lawsuits and [...]

From Craig Newmark:
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those [...]

Background/original story: NBC “accidentally” distributed American Gladiators with the Broadcast Flag turned on.
EFF podcast/discussion:

Alan Wexelblat:
I’m talking about traveling back in time to late 2005 when the ‘net was buzzing - angrily—about a Cartel proposal to require DRM to be embedded in every broadcast signal. The end of ‘free’ TV? No more time-shifting allowed? You remember [...]

YouTomb documents copyright takedowns on YouTube.
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the [...]

Seth Schoen at the EFF has posted the group’s concerns about the forthcoming implementation of DRM for Flash video. But is it really “DRM” in the strictest sense? Some clarifications from Flashcomguru:
…I think the author has missed the point here, or does not understand the purpose of RTMPE, the new encrypted flavor of Adobe’s Real [...]

WMG has decided to test the DMCA Safe-Harbor provisions once again by suing Seeqpod.
The safe harbor principle is the same one that prevents major search engines from being sued every time they link to illegal information or content (though it hasn’t prevented porn purveyor Perfect 10 from going after both Google and Microsoft over the [...]

from The Boston Globe:
Beginning Friday and running through the following Monday, the Harvard Film Archive will unveil a choice sampling of pre-Code transgressions, “Vice vs. Virtue in Pre-Code Hollywood.” Besides a rare opportunity to see the films in their 35mm glory, the eye-opening program offers a startling glimpse into a road not taken by Hollywood [...]