I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
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…
It's great to be here deep in the center of the Center for Internet and Society, and to have my blog up and running too. As you can see in my bio, I come h…
Simon Wiesenthal , the great Nazi hunter who helped capture Adolf Eichmann and many other former Nazis, has died at age 96 . Wiesenthal's life and achievem…
Well, we have arrived in London. I will start blogging again very soon.…
Its not too hard in the world of music and music piracy to say: "yes, stealing is bad." What is more difficult to say is: here is a solution to avert…
So everyone's trying to nail down exactly what GoogleNet will be. A wifi network, a VPN, both? Slashdot is buzzing. I agree with Engaget who says: Its get…
A friend pointed out that New Orleans' legendary jazz music venue Preservation Hall is selling t-shirts that say "Do you know what it means . . .?"…