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the end of the wireless sanctuary
This NYT article explains how millions of wireless users are signing contracts where the fine print allows providers to add them to a phone directory. I like t…
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Copy Left
Excellent summary- style piece in the NYT: The Tyranny of Copyright. The type of piece you can give your mother to read so she understands why you are not '…
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FOIA's documents
You can find the documents that NASA turned over to EPIC, as well as other information about the Northwest discosures of Passenger data at the EPIC website.…
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Op-Ed Columnist: Democracy at Risk
On January 23, 2004, Paul Krugman wrote in a column for the NYT: Internal e-mail from Diebold, the most prominent maker of electronic voting machines (though n…
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Flexibility in Sentencing?
From the Houston Chronicle we learn that Judge Larry Standly ordered a man convicted of slapping his wife to take a yoga class as a condition of his probation,…
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Court Denies Ampex's Motion, Orders More Briefing. Hearing Set for February 3, 2004
The Court issued this order denying Ampex's motion to strike the costs awarded by the Court of Appeal. The Court ordered supplemental briefing on the issue…
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Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer's Legal Tags…
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Creating a World Economy for MMPOGs
In a fascinating article, BBC News describes services which allow players of massively multi-player online games (MMPOGs) such as Everquest to exchange currenci…
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Santa Clara -The Digital Challenge to Copyright Law Symposium
I just noticed that the Computer and High Tech Law Journal at University of Santa Clara is having a conference on digital copyright on February 5 and 6. In add…
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Owner Override III, or: TCG Liability Rules
A few months ago, Klaus Kursawe and Christian Stüble have published a paper that includes several proposals to improve the TCG specification. One of their propo…
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Update on NWA Passenger IDing
In a follow-up to an earlier story, a shocking new development! NWA's unauthorized disclosure of passenger information has led to a class-action lawsuit. Ga…
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MMOG currency exchange online
The BBC has a fascinating story about a new exchange that permits one to exchance currencies among some of the various massively-multiplayer online games that a…