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.""

Comments

Re:REGISTRATION REQUIRED???!!!

[sholton]

Can't we at least be warned about such things?

Slashdot does a better job than most at warning readers that a linked-to site may require registration, or contain sensitive subject matter, etc.

However, you should realize, due to the nature of the internet, that there is no guarantee that the object you will find at this location[does not exist] will be anything like what it was when I gave you the reference by posting it here, or even that the site will let you access it at all.

In other words, yeah, registration sucks, but don't blame the messenger.

Re:Linux' involved

[sholton]

The post is posting number 2767034 and posted at 06:51 AM in my timezone. It was in response to an article posted at 6:48 in the reference timezone.

The first response to this story was post number 2767032 posted at 6:51 in the reference timezone.

The post contains approximately 500 words, posted 3 minutes after the story was posted. If we neglect the time spent reading the story, the linked story, and all network delays, and presuming the post was not proofread, this still amounts to a raw typing speed of over 150 words per minute; impressive by any standard.

Clearly, this was a pre-written screed against Linux by some individual with more interest in destroying the Linux community than in building their own. It was clearly tied to an automated system to post this pre-written reply in response to any slashdot story meeting it's criteria.

It's a bit unusual, not at all unexpected, and clearly counterproductive to even their own objectives. I wonder where the author expects to be once the internet becomes nothing more than a battleground for competing perl scripts. After all, you can't market to a robot.

Then again, some people are just idiots.