The Year in Internet Law

owenPS writes: "This New York Times article has "excerpts from e-mails written by six legal experts about the year's most important developments in law and technology...As in years past, the common element in the experts' responses seemed to be a sense that Internet law -- and cyberspace itself -- is still unfolding and that new battle lines are forming even as old conflicts are settled.""

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Re:REGISTRATION REQUIRED???!!!

[sholton]

owenPS was the author of this story, not slashdot (the community, or the site collective), with michael providing the editorial services, so lets ensure criticism of this story is directed where it should be.

I do not think the author was unaware of the registration required, but it's possible. I would hope all slashdot posters are aware that registration is required for many stories at www.nytimes.com, but one of the features of the World Wide Web is that we see the web through the filtered lense of our own browser, which creates the risk that we will be blind to the way others will view a web object. It's possible that the author, as a registered user, has simply forgotten that not everyone is registered, in the same way that people who send MSWord documents through email often forget that not everyone is licensed to use MSWord (or even on a platform where MSWord is available), or web masters who only use (for example) IE are often unaware that the pages they create are unreadable by other browsers.

For an example closer to home, the "preview" function of slashdot for posting comments is seriously broke for anyone using the Lynx web browser. (Yes, the slashdot coders know about it)

On the other hand, unless you are owenPS, you cannot say that the URL was wrong. I'll accept that there may have been a better way to provide a link to the NYT article; but you must respect the author's choice for the story the author wrote. If you think you can do better, you are encouraged to do so. I'll michael appears to be the only one working today. ;-)

And while we all expect the NYT will continue to require registration for the forseeable future, they could change their policy at any time, and they are in no way required to notify slashdot of this change to their policy.