It would seem that the notion that the defendant's reputation is being defamed in his home state would make sense. No one in CT is going to care about some prison warden in particular, but the people where he is from very well may.
If I can read an online article online then I would have to agree that it *is* being published in my juristiction. I think a simple way around this is creating generic registrations which require a user to log-in. There is no need to specify a name or anything, but a user could specify their country. If they want to lie, go ahead, but at least then they can't sue anywhere but in the juristiction that they specified.
IMO if you are writing an article about someone somewhere else, you still need to be accountable for what you write. Just because they may live half-way around the world doesn't mean you can say whatever you please. If the DJ article wasnt' meant to be read in Australia, then don't allow Australians to read it. Obviously the article was meant to be published in Austratlia (they say the ship print copies there) so they should be accountable for what they say about someone there.
The problem with regulating internet technolgies with legislation is that the technology required can be moved to any location.
If the United States makes it illegal/expensivie to operate an internet radio station, the radio station can simply move its servers to another location (lets say Canada or UK) where the regulation doesn't exist (yet). There is no visible effect on the service to the user, and the American government successfully alienates another new technology. In the mean time other contries will benefit from the short-sightedness of another.
In the end, you cannot continue to support an outmoded business model with legislation and regulation (if this worked in the past it certainly won't work in a "Global Economy").
Here in Canada one of our nation-wide cellphone companies (and the dominant local telco in many areas) is Bell Canada. I used to have a cell phone with them, until my monthly bill started creeping up. Actually it didn't so much creep up as jump up.
For some reason each monthly bill would include a new "service fee" - either a system access fee, a 911 fee, a call display fee - all things that had been previously included in my monthly charge. All in all my $20/month plan was costing me more like $45/month.
So I decided I would cancel my plan and get a Pay-As-You-Go phone where you recharge your minutes as you use them. To my surprise the phone company was quite miffed with me for wanting to cancel my service. I can understand wanting to put down a reason (so maybe they would eventually clue in that they were gouging thier customers) so I said the service was simply too expensive. Well.
That wasn't good enough for my customer support representative. She wanted to know what company I was switching to, how much ther were charging me each month. Did I realize I woudn't be able to use my old phone. Blah, blah, blah. She seemed truly insulted that I would forsake her cellphone company for another. I think she was mad at me.
The funny thing is I still get an "Online Invoice" emailed to me every month for a phone I don't even have anymore.
I think the days for these kind of limited handhelds are numbered. With Sony pumping out full-fledged computers that weigh something like 1kg who would want something a limited as a PDA. I would rather carry around a mini-cell phone and a lite-laptop that lets me browse the web in something like 640x480 instead of like 240xwhatever, and then be able to leave it in the car and just carry my cellphone with me.
Sony should come out with a laptop with a pop-out cell phone that allows web access on the laptop, and a regular cell phone that you can carry with you. Heck - you could even sync the information with the phone when you re-dock it, or place video calls with the laptop (since Sony seems to like putting digital cameras on their laptops).
This really isn't much worse than the hoops that RealPlayer makes you go through to remove it as your default media player. After about 4 "Are you really, really, really sure you want to Disalbe StartCenter" messages it lets you. Besides - they make you upgrade about once a month so that all your preferences get reset to RealPlayer again anyway...
I don't know who would actually PAY for their crappy product.
You wouldn't need a cursor because the cursor would always be where you were looking - the only reason for a cursor is to figure out what the mouse is pointing at...
Wouldn't it make more sense to track your eye movements, if I could *look* at the link on a page (lets say hold it in focus for one second) and follow the link life would be great. There is some technolgy that allows tracking of eye movement - I've seen it used to research how the human brain "reads" a page of text (by scanning all over it quickly).
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If I can read an online article online then I would have to agree that it *is* being published in my juristiction. I think a simple way around this is creating generic registrations which require a user to log-in. There is no need to specify a name or anything, but a user could specify their country. If they want to lie, go ahead, but at least then they can't sue anywhere but in the juristiction that they specified.
IMO if you are writing an article about someone somewhere else, you still need to be accountable for what you write. Just because they may live half-way around the world doesn't mean you can say whatever you please. If the DJ article wasnt' meant to be read in Australia, then don't allow Australians to read it. Obviously the article was meant to be published in Austratlia (they say the ship print copies there) so they should be accountable for what they say about someone there.
Just my 2 cents CDN (about 1 cent USD)
If the United States makes it illegal/expensivie to operate an internet radio station, the radio station can simply move its servers to another location (lets say Canada or UK) where the regulation doesn't exist (yet). There is no visible effect on the service to the user, and the American government successfully alienates another new technology. In the mean time other contries will benefit from the short-sightedness of another.
In the end, you cannot continue to support an outmoded business model with legislation and regulation (if this worked in the past it certainly won't work in a "Global Economy").
For some reason each monthly bill would include a new "service fee" - either a system access fee, a 911 fee, a call display fee - all things that had been previously included in my monthly charge. All in all my $20/month plan was costing me more like $45/month.
So I decided I would cancel my plan and get a Pay-As-You-Go phone where you recharge your minutes as you use them. To my surprise the phone company was quite miffed with me for wanting to cancel my service. I can understand wanting to put down a reason (so maybe they would eventually clue in that they were gouging thier customers) so I said the service was simply too expensive. Well.
That wasn't good enough for my customer support representative. She wanted to know what company I was switching to, how much ther were charging me each month. Did I realize I woudn't be able to use my old phone. Blah, blah, blah. She seemed truly insulted that I would forsake her cellphone company for another. I think she was mad at me.
The funny thing is I still get an "Online Invoice" emailed to me every month for a phone I don't even have anymore.
Thats just my little story :)
Sony should come out with a laptop with a pop-out cell phone that allows web access on the laptop, and a regular cell phone that you can carry with you. Heck - you could even sync the information with the phone when you re-dock it, or place video calls with the laptop (since Sony seems to like putting digital cameras on their laptops).
Why does emusic.ca link to the napster.com website...?
This really isn't much worse than the hoops that RealPlayer makes you go through to remove it as your default media player. After about 4 "Are you really, really, really sure you want to Disalbe StartCenter" messages it lets you. Besides - they make you upgrade about once a month so that all your preferences get reset to RealPlayer again anyway... I don't know who would actually PAY for their crappy product.
You wouldn't need a cursor because the cursor would always be where you were looking - the only reason for a cursor is to figure out what the mouse is pointing at...
Wouldn't it make more sense to track your eye movements, if I could *look* at the link on a page (lets say hold it in focus for one second) and follow the link life would be great. There is some technolgy that allows tracking of eye movement - I've seen it used to research how the human brain "reads" a page of text (by scanning all over it quickly).