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The Year In Tech Law
Selanit writes "CNet has an article rounding up the year in IP law. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this article is that the SCO case gets only one paragraph out of a fairly lengthy article. It's good to get a reminder that there are other issues out there, including content filtering in libraries, the potential for a tax on Internet access, pop-up ads, domain name legislation, and of course file-sharing."
Not really a tech issue. A hundred years ago, that case would have been just as relevant.
The criminal arena. The first ever "felony" spam arrest, followed by two more spammers surrendering.
A cybersquatter goes to prison for pr0n linking to mis-spelled children specific sites. Not trying to be redundant, but this article is informative.
My personal favorite, "DVD Jon" acquitted.
Case law gets made when somebody loses their case, it goes up to a court of appeals, and the appellate court either affirms or reverses, issuing an opinion. So it's neither interesting nor surprising that the SCO v Linux case isn't mentioned in the article, that case is still at the trial court level.
You do know, with Mozilla, you can exempt some sites from pop-up blocking right??