Thad Anderson

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  www.jayday.org/miscellaneous/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/29/2002    Last Visited: 1/20/2008  

  Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law in Queens, New York, has launched a website that makes hundreds of government documents available for "sharing," just as Kazaa allows users to swap mp3 files.According to this article in Wired ...

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  www.packetnexus.com/intel.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/29/2003    Last Visited: 7/30/2004  

  Peer to Peer Politics Here's an idea the RIAA can get behind: Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law, has launched a peer-to-peer network that allows users to access and share government documents.More than 600 court and government documents, including memos, communications and reports, are available on his OutragedModerates.org site, and can be accessed through the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks.

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  techlawadvisor.com/induce/2005/03/outragedmoderates-cit - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/23/2005    Last Visited: 11/12/2007  

  Queens, NY - Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law, learned that his political blog is cited in two of the amici curiae briefs submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the MGM v. Grokster case (scheduled for March 29th).
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  According to the Wired article: "Anderson said that seeing the documents themselves, rather than reading about them through the filter of a news article, has a greater impact. 'It's a very direct and primary source when you read (these documents) without any spin,' he said. 'Unlike a Michael Moore film, there is no dramatic music being played.You're sitting there looking at it on your computer, and it's a great way for people to make up their own minds about things.'"
  
  Despite the high-tech nature of the MGM v. Grokster legal battle, Anderson says that he inherited his belief in freedom of speech and open government from a decidedly old-fashioned source: his family's roots in North Carolina.Anderson was born and raised in Raleigh, NC, and his grandfather and great-grandfather are characters in Tim Tyson's critically-acclaimed 'Blood Done Sign My Name," which tells the story of a racially-motivated murder in Oxford, North Carolina.

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  techlawadvisor.com/2004/07/downloading-for-democracy.ht - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/1/2004    Last Visited: 11/12/2007  

  The site is run by Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's Law School.Thad has aggregated more than 600 government and court documents and made them available for download through P2P networks: Anderson didn't intend to make a statement by using P2P networks, but his use of the networks to deliver the data counters the usual government and entertainment industry arguments that P2P networks have no value, apart from stealing copyright works, and therefore should be outlawed.
  
  In this case, the P2P networks are promoting public knowledge and doing so in a way that makes it easy for people to obtain all related documents swiftly with a single mouseclick.
  
  Although all of the documents on Anderson's site are available elsewhere, they are buried deep in government and court sites or scattered among the sites of various government watchdog groups and media outlets.It took Anderson about four hours and 2,000 mouseclicks to download more than 13,000 documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force from the National Resources Defense Council's website and from Judicial Watch.

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  Archives | MetaFilter - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/1/2004    Last Visited: 3/12/2005  

  Peer to Peer Politics Here's an idea the RIAA can get behind: Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law, has launched a peer-to-peer network that allows users to access and share government documents.

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  Cosmopolitan University Science Links: POLITICAL... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/24/2006    Last Visited: 6/20/2008  

  Thad Anderson a Law student at St. John's School of Law in Queens writes : "During the last four years, the Bush administration's policies have gone against everything I've ever learned about how America is supposed to work: as a political science major, as an Eagle Scout, and as a member of a family that has lived in the American South since before the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed"

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  Downloading for Democracy- By Kim Zetter [Archive] -... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/19/2004    Last Visited: 6/6/2009  

  Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law in Queens, New York, said he was driven to launch the site by what he says is the current administration's disregard for fundamental democratic structures and its increasing practice of withholding information from the public. He wanted to give people access to crucial data about what elected officials were doing.
  
  "I really think this is a crucial point, during my lifetime, for people to really look at what's going on with the government and make it be more accountable for what it's doing," he said. "The president and vice president have used executive privilege to withhold documents that almost every president for the last 30 or 40 years has released."
  
  Anderson didn't intend to make a statement by using P2P networks, but his use of the networks to deliver the data counters the usual government and entertainment industry arguments that P2P networks have no value, apart from stealing copyright works, and therefore should be outlawed.
  
  In this case, the P2P networks are promoting public knowledge and doing so in a way that makes it easy for people to obtain all related documents swiftly with a single mouseclick.
  
  Although all of the documents on Anderson's site are available elsewhere, they are buried deep in government and court sites or scattered among the sites of various government watchdog groups and media outlets. It took Anderson about four hours and 2,000 mouseclicks to download more than 13,000 documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force from the National Resources Defense Council's website and from Judicial Watch.
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  But the entire document and other documents were redacted so heavily there was really no point in the Energy Department releasing it," Anderson said. Anderson said that seeing the documents themselves, rather than reading about them through the filter of a news article, has a greater impact.
  
  "It's a very direct and primary source when you read (these documents) without any spin," he said.
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  Although Anderson is a Democrat, his site supports no particular political stance. It doesn't need to, he says, because the principles behind it find support among people of all political beliefs.
  
  "There's a lot of people of both parties and independent parties who are saying that the things Bush has done on a number of issues is going beyond what mainstream Americans are willing to go along with," Anderson said.
  
  Anderson said his goal is to help people obtain the information they need to speak up about what the government is doing wrong. He's encouraged that more and more people are doing so.

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  Gnutella.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/30/2004    Last Visited: 3/28/2005  

  Queens, NY - Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law, was stunned to learn that his political blog is cited in two of the amici curiae briefs submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the MGM v. Grokster case (scheduled for March 29th).

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  Groonk's Newsmine 2.0: USA Archives - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/11/2004    Last Visited: 11/28/2005  

  Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law in Queens, New York, said he was driven to launch the site by what he says is the current administration's disregard for fundamental democratic structures and its increasing practice of withholding information from the public.He wanted to give people access to crucial data about what elected officials were doing.
  
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  Anderson said that seeing the documents themselves, rather than reading about them through the filter of a news article, has a greater impact.
  
  "It's a very direct and primary source when you read (these documents) without any spin," he said.

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  Hit & Run: July 18, 2004 - July 24, 2004 Archives - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2004    Last Visited: 7/20/2004  

  Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law in Queens, New York, said he was driven to launch the site by what he says is the current administration's disregard for fundamental democratic structures and its increasing practice of withholding information from the public. ...Anderson didn't intend to make a statement by using P2P networks, but his use of the networks to deliver the data counters the usual government and entertainment industry arguments that P2P networks have no value, apart from stealing copyright works, and therefore should be outlawed.

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