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The Empirical Impact of Filesharing

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) recently released a study suggesting that illegal downloading cost the British music industry 1.8 billion pounds over th…

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Assault on the privacy of your harddrive

Microsoft recently 'helped' Oklahoma craft a spyware protection act. They conveniently wrote in broad exceptions to make sure they and other content and…

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Complaint Filed

Student Megan Adams drafted and filed this complaint alleging that CBP failed to comply with the FOIA by failing to conduct an adequate search and wrongfully wi…

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Boyle-esque puzzle

Okay, y'all have already thought of this, but it just came to me: What would happen if we passed a law that said it was illegal to have been convicted of a…

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Soft Paternalism

The Economist this week runs a title story called 'Soft Paternalism' http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=6772346 In m book on e-…

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DATING MEGA-SITES ALREADY EXIST

The note about the merger of iTunes and jDate is interesting.  As a person familiar with -- if not necessarily a member of -- both platforms, my sense is that t…

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The perfect new site: JDate meets iTunes

It's nice to see iTunes branching out into new product offerings such as TV show Season Passes and TV movies.  It's also nice to see that an NJG (that i…

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The perfect new site: JDate meets iTunes

It's nice to see iTunes branching out into new product offerings such as TV show Season Passes and TV movies.  It's also nice to see that an NJG (that i…

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The Battle for Peace

General Anthony Zinni, the former commander in charge of U.S. Central Command, was on Meet the Press a week ago, speaking about the Iraq war and his new book, T…

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Colin Rule

Note New date Monday April 10, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 95 Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served As people around the world increasingly interact with e…