On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
According to vnunet.com, a member of the band Switchfoot published information about how to bypass digital rights management (DRM) technology for their most rec…
To anyone even remotely familiar with blogging, websites etc its pretty obvious that a blog isn't a formal statement by the blogger on ANYTHING. Even more…
CNet reports a CORRECTION to the Reuters story discussed below; I reproduce it in full: Correction: This story was misleading in its description of eDonkey'…
How could I forget such cataclysmic news? My sincere apologies. The Yanks -- my beloved underdogs -- are back in first place. It'll be an interesting run…
A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that the pace of the growth of broadband's usage slowed in the first six months of 2005,…
I guess it should be no surprise, in the wake of the US Supreme Court's Grokster decision and its endorsement of an "inducement" theory of liabili…
As I said in my previous blog entry, the Telkom/Helkom dispute has been settled. Its interesting to look at the copyright issue and compare; the Telkom image:…
Chinese Search Site Baidu.com Ordered To Cease Offering Links to Sound Recordings…
Illinois attorney David Fish has filed a class action lawsuit against infamous spyware/adware company 1800Solutions Inc. Last month Fish survived a motion to d…
For those who think that it's ok for US companies to help the Chinese government, police and courts crack down on dissidents, here's a reality check.…
Before reading on (and thanks if you do -- you really, really care!), I should make two disclosures: first, as I mention in my bio, I am an active and ardent su…
I was talking to a friend recently (not a lawyer, but a well-informed techie), and our conversation turned indirectly to natural right theories of intellectual…