Globalisation
Judge Cameron Lecture now online
Judge Cameron’s excellent lecture at the University of Edinburgh is now online.
Governance
More about Bush’s website international blocking
The Register comments on the strange blocking of international addresses by Bush’s website. For one, it is thought that this may try to prevent attacks from Denial-of-Service attacks. Could it be simply that Bush doesn’t know that the rest of Read more…
Cybercrime
Spammer trial begins
Three people are being charged in Virginia for breaking the state’s anti-spam legislation. They could get up to fifteen years sentence if convicted. We don’t like spammers, but 15 years? Seems a bit excessive! And no Monty Python jokes please.
Governance
Bush doesn’t like them foreigners!
I guess it is because they have long unpronounceable names, and they don’t clap him adoringly at the UN.
e-commerce
Interesting eBay case
Grace v eBay is a new case in California (where else?) that is posing some interesting questions about intermediary liability, unfair contract clauses and online defamation. The case was brought by Roger Grace, an eBay seller who was subjected to Read more…
Governance
European domain name goes live
(Warning: The link requires registration. Are your tired of all of those sites that require registration? Why not use Bugmenot?). The Times Law section has a great article about the registration process for the .eu top level domain name. The Read more…
Litigation
Music download case in Australia
This is a new case against a site that offered MP3 music. The problem is that the article is not clear on the type of technlogy that was being used to serve the files. It seems that the accused was Read more…
Web 2.0
Wikipedia Rulez, OK?
Seems like Wikipedia has finally been discovered by the mainstream, the article in The Guardian actually does a decent job in describing the strenghts and weaknesses of the encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a great resource because the articles are written, edited Read more…
P2P
CD sales and music downloads
This is an oldish study, but we believe that it deserves all of the attention that it can get. The study analyses the economic impact to CD sales of music downloads. The study confirms what many of us music downloaders Read more…
e-commerce
Fun eBay listings.
eBay has been a lot in the news recently with reports of some rather interesting listings. There is the great one about a guy in Aberdeen flogging a wedding invite: Everything is being sold on eBay these days, but one Read more…