An article from the Washington Post discusses some of the possible implications of a opinion by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which vacates an FCC ruling that cable modem internet services are an "information service" as opposed to a "telecommunications service" and thus are not subject …

An article from BBC News reports that the High Court (one step down from the Court of Appeals in the UK) has let stand a law that calls for consent of both parents when using a frozen embryo. The case involves two women who are now incapable of bearing children …

Karl Auerbach (all-around good guy, former ICANN at-large member, California lawyer) points out in his latest weblog entry that Network Solutions (purveyors of SiteFinder, that place everyone now goes when they type in the wrong domain name) has started a new web site aimed at domain information privacy called InternetPrivacyAdvocate …

Earlier this week, CNN posted an article that finally focussed some national attention on the use of the USA Patriot Act by the government against "common criminals." The article contained a number of good examples of why such broad-reaching authority needs to be meted out in an even-handed way with …

According to an article from the New York Times, SBC (a regional Bell derivative serving mostly the western states) continues to hold out against subpoenas from the RIAA. With the Federal District Court in Washington expected to hear oral arguments today in Verizon's continuing effort to get the subpoenas struck …

Microsoft is hardly a beloved name in the computer industry, but when software patents are in question, everybody rallies to the support of the defendant. The latest example of this is a blog entry from Ray Ozzie (formerly of Lotus and currently of Groove Networks). Microsoft in August fell prey …

A site has been established by the attorneys general of the states involved in the anti-trust legislation against Microsoft to provide information about the settlements and to gather information about possible infringement.

In a speech yesterday (reported by the Washington Post), President Bush asked the public to "untie the hands of our law enforcement officials." In his speech, Bush has called for extensions to the USA Patriot Act to give the government additional powers which he claims would bring anti- terrorism enforcement …

IDG News Service reports (courtesy of MacCentral) that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee) raised questions yesterday about the DMCA's subpoena provisions. Unfortunately, he is still taking the RIAA side in the intellectual property vs. privacy debate. Although he indicated that the DMCA is "not perfect," he …

In a move intended to prove a point, defendants sued earlier this year by EMarketersAmerica.org have decided to continue the lawsuit to its conclusion despite a motion by the plaintiffs to drop the lawsuit voluntarily. The defendants are determined to win a judgment and get court costs for the …

An article on Wired this morning indicates that the RIAA has settled a lawsuit with one of the newly sued people. This one is a 12-year old and they are letting her off with a fine of $2,000. Fortunately, this move has sparked some new resistance to the DMCA's …

As the second anniversary of the September 11th attacks looms, the Washington Post has an article about questions being raised by a key piece of legislative fallout, the USA Patriot Act. Those familiar with the act recall that not only does it provide significant new powers for the federal government …

For those of you wondering about the effects of the DMCA on the availability of information on the Internet, consider the page from Chilling Effects about requests to remove content from Google. For those unfamiliar with Chilling Effects, it is a site dedicated to watching the DMCA and other mechanisms …

The Washington Post is reporting this morning about a program started at Northwestern University a couple of years ago to put Supreme Court audio online. The site, Oyez.org, has been running for the past few years, but the effort began in the early 1980's when a bunch of Chicago …

The New York Times has an article about Julian Green, 45, of the UK who was recently acquitted on a charge of child pornography by using a virus as a defense. Apparently, the man's computer started "acting up" due to a virus and became unstable. However, not only was it …

Because no bad idea (or bad name) remains unused for long, the state of Florida has been working to create an information network that gathers information about its residents to aid in "anti-terrorism" and law enforcement. According to this article in the Washington Post, Florida is now working to go …

If the folks at Red Hat needed any more proof for their allegations in a Deleware court that SCO is using scare tactics to frighten customers away from their 'wares, they got it today when the company announced their pricing for Linux users. According to an article from CNet, the …

The Belgian legislature has voted to change the controversial human rights prosecution law such the court now only has jurisdiction when Belgian citizens or property are involved. According to this article from BBC News, the only thing standing in the way of this bill becoming law is the formal signature …

According to an article from CNet this morning that Minnesota Republican, Norm Coleman has sent a letter to the RIAA asking for specifics about their subpoena operation. The lawmaker has said that he is concerned that the industry is using a "shotgun" approach that could harm innocent people. For their …

In a story that just continues to get larger and stranger, yet another Baby Bell (this time Pac Bell) is standing up for your rights to privacy. On the heals of Verizon standing firm until an appeals loss earlier this year, PacBell has filed suit against the RIAA claiming that …