Access

Bibliography

01-11-05-RollCall-E-Congress.txt
01-12-00-MITTechRev-UIMetaphors.txt
02-01-07-BBC-EVoting.txt
02-01-21-Ubiquity-EGovernment.txt
02-02-04-Ubiquity-Badre-UIs.txt
02-03-07-SJMerc-HomeNetAccessStats.txt
02-03-12-Ubiquity-EGovernment-2.txt
02-04-08-EWeek-EGovTechChallenges.txt
02-04-18-WashPost-DigtialDivideStillExists.txt
02-05-24-BBBriefings-BBTelecomAct-.txt
02-05-30-SJMerc-BushAdminCutsAccess-DigDivide.txt
02-06-03-ERCIM-UI4ALL-Workshop.txt
02-06-21-Wired-AccessibilityProgress.txt
02-07-11-SJMerc-BroadbandWidensDigitalDivide.txt
02-08-14-SJMerc-PDA-likeComputerClosesDigitalDivide.txt
02-09-02-AP-LawsuitChargesATTIgnoredMinorities.txt
02-09-11-Mercuri-ProblemsWithTouchscreenVotingMachines.txt
02-11-00-TechReview-ExperiencesWithOnlineVoting.txt
02-11-05-PCWorld-OnlineVoting.txt
02-11-21-WashPost-DOEShutsDownFreeWebInfoSearchSite.txt
02-12-02-UMD-EvaluationOfMDsEVotingMachine.txt
02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt
03-01-24-DDill-VotingMachinesMustProvideVoterAuditTrail.txt
03-01-26-ADT-MirrorWorlds-Gelernter-DesktopNotUsefulForInfoO.txt
03-02-06-NYT-WiFiToBeUsedInRuralFrance.txt
03-02-19-ACMUbiquity-LFCranor-Privacy-Surveillence-Voting.txt
03-02-20-Salon-ProblemsWithElectronicVotingMachines.txt
03-02-21-NationalJ-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVot.txt
03-02-21-SecurityFocus-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScree.txt
03-02-22-BusinessWeek-Raskin-NewInterface-CommandLineWithVis.txt
03-02-25-BlackBoxVoting-WhistleBlowerSuesVotingMachineCompan.txt
03-02-25-MSNBC-ComputerScientistsConcernedAboutEVoting.txt
03-02-26-SJMerc-CountyEVotingPlansAdvanceInSpiteOfConcerns.txt
03-03-03-SFGate-ComputerScientistsQuestionEVoting.txt
03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt
03-03-13-ALA-S609RestoreFOIAWouldEliminateSomeExemptions.txt
03-03-24-InfoWeek-CompaniesBringingEmailToFactoryWorkers.txt
03-03-28-WashPost-ComputerScientistsDisputeTouchScreenVoting.txt
03-03-30-SJMerc-SpeedAndAccuracyLimitSpeechRecognition.txt
03-04-00-WUSTL-WebAccessForTheVisuallyImpaired.txt
03-04-17-SJMerc-WhiteHouseCreatesEgovernmentOffice.txt
03-04-17-USAToday-WiFiGivesDevelopingNationsInternetAccess.txt
03-04-21-SJMerc-AskTheWhiteHouseWebsiteMainlyForPR.txt
03-04-21-SJMerc-FCCPlansStricterRulesOnE-RateNetAccess.txt
03-04-28-IHT-ManySayEVotingUnsafe.txt
03-05-07-MapCruzin-NebraskaElectronicVotingProblems.txt
03-05-09-Wired-VotingMachinesWithPaperTrailIntroduced.txt
03-05-15-NYT-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt
03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt
03-05-19-EWeek-WebAccessForTheImpaired.txt
03-05-23-UMD-EVotingSystemUsabilityIssues.txt
03-05-30-USACM-LetterToCongHoltOnEVoting.txt
03-06-24-ABCNews-DODProposesEVotingForMilitary.txt
03-06-30-SJMerc-OnLinePublicRecordsTooAccessible.txt
03-11-10-CUU2003-ConfOnUniversalUsability.txt




==========> 01-11-05-RollCall-E-Congress.txt==========

November 05, 2001 

   E-Congress: Possible? Yes. Likely? No. 
   By Amy Keller 

   As lawmakers and their staffs cope with disruptions related to the
   anthrax scare on Capitol Hill and warnings of potential terrorist attacks,
   some in Washington are pondering the idea of creating a so-called
   "virtual Congress" as an alternative to legislating in the flesh.



==========> 01-12-00-MITTechRev-UIMetaphors.txt==========

The Next Computer Interface

Technology Review, December 2001
By Claire Tristram

The desktop metaphor was a brilliant innovation30 years ago. Now it's an 
unmanageable mess, and the search is on for a better way to handle information.

"The desktop is dead," declares David Gelernter. Gelernter is referring to the 
"desktop metaphor"the term frequently used for the hierarchical system of 


==========> 02-01-07-BBC-EVoting.txt==========

Monday, 7 January, 2002, 12:42 GMT 
E-voting: A load of old ballots?
          
The UK should be the first country to hold its
general elections online, says Robin Cook, leader
of the Commons. But BBC News Online's
technology correspondent Mark Ward says it is
not going to be easy. 

You can order a pizza via the net, visit a webcam to


==========> 02-01-21-Ubiquity-EGovernment.txt==========

Observations from the Trenches of Electronic Government
               By Gord Jenkins


Infrastructure, political mandate, and internal organization influence how a 
country manages e-government. One author discovered seven common themes among 
five different e-government implementations. 

The following observations are based on my experience in
electronic government (e-gov) while living and working in Sweden,


==========> 02-02-04-Ubiquity-Badre-UIs.txt==========

Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context

By Albert N. Badre

Optimizing the user experience should be the ultimate aim of the Web usability 
designer.

Chapter 1: Human Computer Interaction for the Web

The billboards loomed over America's highways and byways,


==========> 02-03-07-SJMerc-HomeNetAccessStats.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2811195.htm

  Posted on Thu, Mar. 07, 2002
  Report: Half a billion people have home Internet access

  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nearly half a billion people around the world had 
access to the Internet from their homes by the end of last year, 
Nielsen/NetRatings said on Thursday.

  The Internet measurement firm said some 498 million people could surf the web 


==========> 02-03-12-Ubiquity-EGovernment-2.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_jenkins_2.html

Lessons From the Trenches of E-Gov: Part 2
By Gordon Jenkins

For the countries that have it, e-government is helpful but has yet to fulfill 
its potential.

Introduction



==========> 02-04-08-EWeek-EGovTechChallenges.txt==========

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D709%2526a%253D25089,00.asp

April 8, 2002
eGov Challenges Tech

By  John Taschek 

  The U.S. Government is going electronic but may be setting policy ahead of 
available technology. A series of initiatives, most of them passed during the 
Clinton administration, mandates that government agenciesand the hundreds of 


==========> 02-04-18-WashPost-DigtialDivideStillExists.txt==========

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176000.html
 
Larry Irving: Digital Divide Lives, Few People Care 
By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
18 Apr 2002, 9:14 PM CST

The digital divide still is very much alive, but U.S. corporations and the 
federal government have unfairly abdicated their roles in helping to bring the 
Internet to U.S. citizens regardless of their race or class, said former U.S. 


==========> 02-05-24-BBBriefings-BBTelecomAct-.txt==========

Subject: Broadband Briefings: The Bells' Future
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:53:56 -0600 (MDT)
From: Audrie Krause 

Published by NetAction            Issue No. 24              May 24, 2002

Two Takes On Bridging the Digital Divide

Two bills that take dramatically different approaches to bridging the
digital divide were introduced recently in the U.S. Senate. Both


==========> 02-05-30-SJMerc-BushAdminCutsAccess-DigDivide.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3366306.htm

  Posted on Thu, May. 30, 2002

  Consumer groups attack Bush administrations position on Internet digital 
divide

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is wrong to declare that the 
digital divide is narrowing and should focus on expanding Internet access for 
the poor and less educated in their homes, leading consumer groups said 


==========> 02-06-03-ERCIM-UI4ALL-Workshop.txt==========

7th ERCIM WORKSHOP "USER INTERFACES FOR ALL"

23 - 25 October 2002

http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/workshop2002

Paris (Chantilly), France
Golf Hotel de Mont Griffon, R.D. 909 - 95270 Luzarches
http://www.golfhotelparis.com



==========> 02-06-21-Wired-AccessibilityProgress.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53376,00.html

Tech Access Law: Slow Progress 
By Kendra Mayfield 

2:00 a.m. June 21, 2002 PDT 

A year ago, a new law introduced strict technological accessibility standards 
to make government websites, as well as major commercial hardware and software 
products, more accessible to federal workers and other users with disabilities. 


==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-BroadbandWidensDigitalDivide.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641835.htm

  Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002
  Study: As more use broadband, digital divide widens
  By Sam Diaz
  Mercury News

  John Hong has been high-speed surfing the Web for more than three years, 
first as a subscriber of ISDN services and now as a subscriber of DSL.



==========> 02-08-14-SJMerc-PDA-likeComputerClosesDigitalDivide.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3866244.htm

Posted on Wed, Aug. 14, 2002
Mike Langberg: Simple computer helps close digital divide
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

  I've always been a digital-divide cynic, suspecting all the talk about 
transforming the lives of poor people through Internet access to be 
self-serving narcissism from Silicon Valley technologists seeking a 


==========> 02-09-02-AP-LawsuitChargesATTIgnoredMinorities.txt==========

Associated Press
Suit Alleges AT&T Ignored Minorities
Fri Aug 30,11:51 PM ET
By JILL BARTON, AP Business Writer
09/03/02

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A lawsuit against AT&T Broadband alleges the
company intentionally denied high-speed Internet access to minority and
poor neighborhoods and overcharged other customers for services.



==========> 02-09-11-Mercuri-ProblemsWithTouchscreenVotingMachines.txt==========

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.24.html#subj1

Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
Volume 22: Issue 24
Weds 11 September 2002
Florida Primary 2002: Back to the Future 
Rebecca Mercuri
Florida Primary 2002: Back to the Future
"Rebecca Mercuri"  


==========> 02-11-00-TechReview-ExperiencesWithOnlineVoting.txt==========

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation11102.asp

Venturing to Vote Online
Innovation   By Julie Claire Diop   
November 2002
European governments experiment with Internet elections

Who will ever forget the endless examinations of Florida’s paper ballots and 
the debates over "hanging" and "pregnant" chads after the 2000 U.S. 
presidential vote? Florida’s saga continued in September as technical glitches 


==========> 02-11-05-PCWorld-OnlineVoting.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106734,00.asp

Dreaming of a Digital Democracy
Advocates say it's just a matter of time--and security--before we log on to 
cast ballots.
Michelle Madigan, Medill News Service
Tuesday, November 05, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Americans are trekking to the polls to cast their votes by 
touching a screen or punching a card. In an Internet-dominated society, some 


==========> 02-11-21-WashPost-DOEShutsDownFreeWebInfoSearchSite.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html

Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page E01 

The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet
site that catalogued government and academic science
research, in response to corporate complaints that it


==========> 02-12-02-UMD-EvaluationOfMDsEVotingMachine.txt==========

ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2002-25html/2002-25
.html

AN EVALUATION OF MARYLAND’S NEW VOTING MACHINE
The Center for American Politics and Citizenship
Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 December 2, 2002

Executive Summary



==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt==========

Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues
By TechNews.com Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM

In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out
with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock
performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks
and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech
business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes


==========> 03-01-24-DDill-VotingMachinesMustProvideVoterAuditTrail.txt==========

http://verify.stanford.edu/evote.html

Voting machines must provide a voter-verifiable audit trail 

I, David Dill, am trying to organize opposition to unauditable
 electronic voting machines by technologists, especially computer
science researchers. I have written a statement, for which I 
would like to recruit endorsements. (Here is the current list of
endorsements) 



==========> 03-01-26-ADT-MirrorWorlds-Gelernter-DesktopNotUsefulForInfoO.txt==========

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7187

Software innovator David Gelernter says the desktop is obsolete
By Jack Vaughan

[January 28, 2003 - ADT's Programmers Report] - David Gelernter's Mirror
Worlds Technologies Inc. recently announced the beta version of software aimed
at vastly improving the end user's computer experience. Under development since
Mirror Worlds was formed in 1997, and now available free for download,
Scopeware Vision Professional is a visual information management system that


==========> 03-02-06-NYT-WiFiToBeUsedInRuralFrance.txt==========

New York Times
February 6, 2003
Wi-Fi as Savior? France's Farm Dwellers Hope So
By KRISTEN HINMAN

PARIS NEAR Sillé-le-Guillaume, a rural patch of western France, Ginette
Sybille moves some 8,000 fowls, 150 swine and 120 head of cattle on and off
her 395-acre farm each year. She conducts most of her business with
slaughterhouses in the region, but each time an animal changes hands, Mrs.
Sybille has to register the transaction online with the government.


==========> 03-02-19-ACMUbiquity-LFCranor-Privacy-Surveillence-Voting.txt==========

At the Crossroads of Technology and Policy
  Lorrie Cranor on privacy, online voting and Internet censorship.

Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Principal Technical Staff Member at
AT&T Labs-Research, where she has done work in a variety of
areas where technology and policy issues interact -- including online
privacy, electronic voting and spam. She is chair of the Platform for
Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at
the World Wide Web Consortium and author of the book Web
Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002).


==========> 03-02-20-Salon-ProblemsWithElectronicVotingMachines.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html

Hacking democracy?
Computerized vote-counting machines are sweeping the country. But they can
be hacked -- and right now there's no way to be sure they haven't been.
By Farhad Manjoo

Feb. 20, 2003  |  During the past five
months, Bev Harris has e-mailed to
news organizations a series of reports


==========> 03-02-21-NationalJ-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVot.txt==========

National Journal's Tech Daily
The Vote Against Touch-Screen Voting
by Maureen Sirhal

A group of technologists and academics is protesting the potential
introduction of new voting machines in the heart of Silicon Valley because
they say the move will lead to questionable election results.

Led by Stanford University computer-science professor David Dill, more than
300 computer scientists, students, technology professionals and others have


==========> 03-02-21-SecurityFocus-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScree.txt==========

E-Voting security debate comes home
SecurityFocus
By Kevin Poulsen

Should electronic ballots decide the next presidential election? Some
respected computer scientists and security experts say the risks posed by
malicious hackers, equipment failure or subtle programming errors make
fully-electronic voting systems a bad idea. On Friday, they're taking that
fight to their own backyard, trying to stop local officials from
introducing the systems into 5,000 voting booths in the heart of


==========> 03-02-22-BusinessWeek-Raskin-NewInterface-CommandLineWithVis.txt==========

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030122_7027.htm

JANUARY 22, 2003 
BYTE OF THE APPLE 
By Alex Salkever 

THE Key to User-Friendly Computers?
Jef Raskin, who helped design Apple's classic user interface, is working on
a new system, THE, that could be a big improvement 



==========> 03-02-25-BlackBoxVoting-WhistleBlowerSuesVotingMachineCompan.txt==========

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/votehere-lawsuit-1.html

LAWSUIT: Voting Machine Engineer Sues, Alleges Machine Design Flaws 
WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT: Insider Sues Voting Machine Company 

Full text of lawsuit: http://www.blackboxvoting.com/votehere-lawsuit-1.html 
2/25/2003 -- Dan Spillane, a voting machine test engineer, has filed a lawsuit
against his former employer, DRE touch-screen voting machine manufacturer

Spillane's lawsuit charges wrongful and retaliatory termination; 


==========> 03-02-25-MSNBC-ComputerScientistsConcernedAboutEVoting.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/877280.asp?cp1=1

Critics call for electronic voting halt
Computer scientists say systems too vulnerable to fraud
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 25  At least one in 10 voters
nationwide cast ballots in the last presidential
election on electronic voting machines, whose
popularity is growing as counties replace the


==========> 03-02-26-SJMerc-CountyEVotingPlansAdvanceInSpiteOfConcerns.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5266490.htm

Posted on Wed, Feb. 26, 2003
County lets e-voting plan advance without paper backup
By Karen de Sá
Mercury News

Santa Clara County supervisors rejected pleas from computer scientists
Tuesday that they require new electronic voting machines to produce a
paper trail after each touch-screen vote is cast, leaving that decision to the


==========> 03-03-03-SFGate-ComputerScientistsQuestionEVoting.txt==========

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BU1
22767.DTL&type=tech

Scientists question electronic voting
Henry Norr 
Monday, March 3, 2003 

Oddly enough, Silicon Valley has been a laggard when it comes to
applying the technology it's famous for to the election process.
Now it's finally beginning to catch up, and it has suddenly become


==========> 03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5354264.htm

Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2003
Success of Weblogs Heralds Big Future
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - The online diaries known as Weblogs, or "blogs,"
seemed like a lot of inconsequential chatter when they surfaced a few
years ago.


==========> 03-03-13-ALA-S609RestoreFOIAWouldEliminateSomeExemptions.txt==========

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:11:10 -0500
From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" 
To: ALA Washington Office Newsline 
Subject: [ALA-WO:802] SENATE INTRODUCES RESTORE FOIA

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 22
March 13, 2003

In This Issue: Senators Introduce the Restore Freedom of Information


==========> 03-03-24-InfoWeek-CompaniesBringingEmailToFactoryWorkers.txt==========

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030321S0009

E-Mail For Everyone March 24, 2003
Companies are experimenting with low-cost,
stripped-down E-mail that all employees--from
bank tellers to factory workers--can access
By Tony Kontzer

Ken Mitchell, a shift manager at Mannington Mills
Inc.'s commercial flooring plant, relies on E-mail to


==========> 03-03-28-WashPost-ComputerScientistsDisputeTouchScreenVoting.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39241-2003Mar27.html

"New Voting Systems Assailed"
Washington Post (03/28/03) P. A12; Keating, Dan 

Over 300 computer scientists and experts have joined a campaign that
disputes the reliability and security of new touch-screen voting machines that
have been installed throughout several U.S. states in response to election
reforms. They argue that such systems are susceptible to human error,
malfunctions, and interference, while their biggest disadvantage lies in not


==========> 03-03-30-SJMerc-SpeedAndAccuracyLimitSpeechRecognition.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech
nology/5065162.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003
Speech-recognition software an impediment to work
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

Like many a veteran computer user, I've been talking to my PC for years.
For once, I'd like it to respond.


==========> 03-04-00-WUSTL-WebAccessForTheVisuallyImpaired.txt==========

http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/142.html

Blind and visually impaired Web users offered taste of multimedia future
By Liam Otten

St. Louis, Mo., April 2003 - Blind and visually impaired Web users can 
experience
some of the Internet's increasingly expansive potential thanks to a group of 
senior
design students at Washington University in St. Louis. 


==========> 03-04-17-SJMerc-WhiteHouseCreatesEgovernmentOffice.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5654418.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003
E-government office set up in White House
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Efforts to make Uncle Sam more accessible to citizens online
will get a boost today with the creation of an Office of Electronic Government
within the White House.


==========> 03-04-17-USAToday-WiFiGivesDevelopingNationsInternetAccess.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/iraq/2003-04-16-wifi_x.htm

Posted 4/17/2003 8:28 AM 
Wi-Fi could let Iraq skip steps to leap into broadband
By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO  When Iraq is rebuilt, an
emerging wireless Internet technology may let it avoid the
broadband woes that have plagued the USA for years.



==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-AskTheWhiteHouseWebsiteMainlyForPR.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5680998.htm

Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003
`Ask the White House' makes Internet debut
By Bob Kemper
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON -The Bush administration, which has developed an
array of communications strategies that bypass the traditional
White House press corps, now has a new Internet feature that allows


==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-FCCPlansStricterRulesOnE-RateNetAccess.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5680997.htm

Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003
FCC plans stricter rules on 'e-rate' Net-access program
By Jube Shiver Jr.
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -The Federal Communications Commission this week is
expected to tighten rules for the third time on a program that provides
Subsidized Internet access to schools and libraries, but has been


==========> 03-04-28-IHT-ManySayEVotingUnsafe.txt==========

http://www.iht.com/articles/94643.htm

Internet Voting - A Fixers Dream
Lee Dembart/IHT IHT 
Monday, April 28, 2003 

PARIS More than 1.5 million Britons will have a chance to vote
Thursday in 17 local elections using electronic voting systems that
computer security experts on both sides of the Atlantic say are
fraught with danger and an invitation to fraud.


==========> 03-05-07-MapCruzin-NebraskaElectronicVotingProblems.txt==========

http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/bush041603b.htm

Massive cyberfraud by Republicans in Nebraska?

``...former conservative radio talk-show host and now Republican U.S.
Senator Chuck Hagel was the head of, and continues to own part interest
in, the company that owns the company that installed, programmed, and
largely ran the voting machines that were used by most of the citizens
of Nebraska. When Democrat Charlie Matulka requested a hand count of
the vote in the election he lost to Hagel, his request was denied


==========> 03-05-09-Wired-VotingMachinesWithPaperTrailIntroduced.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58738,00.html

Voting Machine Leaves Paper Trail  
By Joanna Glasner  
02:00 AM May. 09, 2003 PT

Voting machines that print individual ballots -- an 
election accessory many computer scientists have clamored for -- are moving a
step closer to widespread availability.



==========> 03-05-15-NYT-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt==========

"To Register Doubts, Press Here"
       New York Times (05/15/03) P. E1; Lubell, Sam 

       Electronic voting machines have gotten a boost since the controversial 
2000
       presidential elections, but the momentum is being countered by a group of
       technologists who warn that such systems are less secure than paper-based
       ones. Stanford University computer scientist David Dill is leading a 
group of
       more than 100 academic and commercial experts, including ACM, who say


==========> 03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5889390.htm

Posted on Sun, May. 18, 2003
Dan Gillmor: A new brand of journalism is taking root in South Korea
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

SEOUL - Lee Bong-Ryul has a day job as an engineer at a semiconductor
company. In his spare time, he's helping to shape tomorrow's journalism.



==========> 03-05-19-EWeek-WebAccessForTheImpaired.txt==========

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1090387,00.asp

May 19, 2003 
Web Access for All
By Debra Donston

The economy, war, the economy, security patches, the economy, natural and 
unnatural
disasters, the economy, SARSthere are dozens of reasons why Web accessibility
may not be high on organizations' priority lists right now (did we mention the


==========> 03-05-23-UMD-EVotingSystemUsabilityIssues.txt==========

ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2002-23html/2002-23
.html

Electronic Voting System Usability Issues
Benjamin B. Bederson,  Bongshin Lee,  Robert M. Sherman
Human-Computer Interaction Lab Computer Science Department, 
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Univ. of Maryland,  College Park, MD 
20742

ABSTRACT


==========> 03-05-30-USACM-LetterToCongHoltOnEVoting.txt==========

May 30, 2003

The Honorable Rush Holt
1019 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Congressman Holt,

As the Co-Chairs of USACM, the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the
Association for Computing Machinery, we are writing to commend you for your


==========> 03-06-24-ABCNews-DODProposesEVotingForMilitary.txt==========

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/FutureTech/netvoting030624.html

  An Internet-based voting system would allow millions of absentee
 ballots from Americans living and working overseas to be
 counted in "real time." But, could a national electronic
 voting system help or hurt the U.S. election process?
 (ABCNEWS.com) 
Virtual Voting United States Prepares E-Ballot System
Trial for 2004 Elections
By Paul Eng


==========> 03-06-30-SJMerc-OnLinePublicRecordsTooAccessible.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6201466.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2003
Are public court records too public in cyberspace?
DAVID KRAVETS
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - Courthouses have long been considered stodgy institutions, 
foreign to the public they serve. The Internet has made them a little less 
detached, offering the ability to pay tickets, attend traffic school, even 


==========> 03-11-10-CUU2003-ConfOnUniversalUsability.txt==========

Call for papers CUU 2003

We invite submissions (due May 12, 2003) for the second ACM Conference on
Universal Usability, to be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 10 - 11,
2003. We seek work in any area whose aim is to enable the widest range of
users to successfully use technology for information, communications,
entertainment, education, e-commerce, civic systems and government services
.

Challenges include the diversity of users (experts and novices, old and

Cryptography

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02-01-08-WashPost-Bernstein.txt
02-01-09-NewsFactor-ErasableKeys.txt
02-01-23-ZDNet-ZimmermanPGP.txt
02-02-04-Salon-Terrorists.txt
02-05-02-NewScientist-RIPA-AntiSnoopingOS.txt
02-05-02-NewsFactor-QuantumCrypto.txt
02-05-27-ComputerWorld-CryptofortheMasses.txt
02-06-20-NYT-Markoff-TCPA-Issues.txt
02-06-24-InfoWorld-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-24-TheRegister-2-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-24-TheRegister-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-25-TheRegister-Palladium-GPL.txt
02-06-26-ExtremeTech-MS-Palladium-AMD-MotherboardDesign.txt
02-06-26-RossAnderson-TCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt
02-07-01-Newsweek-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-07-09-RossAnderson-UpdatedTCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt
02-07-10-SJMerc-OutlookPGPPluginBug.txt
02-07-20-SJMerc-DG-MSPalladium.txt
02-09-00-AtlanticMonthly-SchneierProfile-CryptoSecurityRevie.txt
02-10-21-Cryptome-ReviewOfMSPalladiumMITTalk.txt
02-10-21-NewsForge-Stallman-trustedComputing.txt
02-11-15-Wired-WiFiCryptoFix-WPA-NotPerfect.txt
02-11-15-ZDNetNews-QuantumCrypto.txt
03-01-13-FedCompWeek-WiFiProtectedAccess-WPA-BetterThanWEP.txt
03-03-31-USAToday-Patriot2-CryptoUseWouldExtendedSentences.txt
03-04-10-SFGate-CFP03FocussesonCivilLibertiesIssues.txt
03-05-26-PCWorld-PGPUsedByTerroristsAndRightsActivists.txt
03-06-29-NYT-TrustedComputingIssues.txt




==========> 01-11-20-MSNBC-FBICarnivore.txt==========

FBI software cracks encryption wall
‘Magic Lantern’ part of new ‘Enhanced Carnivore Project’
          By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC

Nov. 20  The FBI is developing software capable
of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect’s
machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source
familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The
software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables


==========> 01-12-05-WashPost-AESStd.txt==========

Federal Government Picks New Encryption Standard 

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
05 Dec 2001, 1:49 PM CST

The U.S. government has approved a new data encryption standard to protect 
sensitive information in federal computer systems, replacing a dated and now 
insecure standard implemented in 1977. 



==========> 01-12-17-SJMerc-802.11Crypto.txt==========

Posted at 4:47 a.m. PST Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 

RSA announces fix for wireless network security hole

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - RSA Security Inc. Monday will announce
new technology designed to improve the security of wireless networks used
within buildings and protect them from so-called ``drive-by hacks.''

Bedford, Massachusetts-based RSA and Hifn of Los Gatos, California, have
developed a technology patch for the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP)


==========> 01-12-19-Wired-Steganography-2DBarCodes.txt==========

Steganography, Next Generation 
By Tania Hershman 
2:00 a.m. Dec. 19, 2001 PST 

Steganography, the science of burying secret messages within something 
innocuous, has endured bad publicity recently, with unsubstantiated rumors of 
missives from Osama bin Laden hidden in images on websites. 

But the good guys can play, too. A new steganography-based technique hides 
barcodes inside pictures and could help create forgery-proof identity 


==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-Bernstein.txt==========

Prof Renews Free Speech Fight Against US Encryption Law 

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
08 Jan 2002, 5:28 PM CST

A computer science professor is renewing a constitutional challenge to U.S. 
encryption laws, arguing that the government's policy on restricting the export 
of domestic cryptographic research violates the First Amendment. 



==========> 02-01-09-NewsFactor-ErasableKeys.txt==========

NewsFactor Network Technology's Home Page 

New Data Encryption Method Throws Away the Keys
Jay Lyman
January 09, 2002

 Last week, a U.S. District Court told the Justice Department that it could 
keep its keystroke logging technology under wraps, even as the Feds used 
information gathered by the snoopware as evidence in the trial of alleged Mafia 
defendant Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. 


==========> 02-01-23-ZDNet-ZimmermanPGP.txt==========

PGP creator: Snooping must be curbed
By ZDNet News Staff 
ZDNet News
January 23, 2002, 10:40 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-821078.html 

Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption--better known as 
PGP--was
in Italy this week for the InfoSecurity conference. ZDNet Italy caught up with 
him to discuss the technical, social and politic implications of his encryption 


==========> 02-02-04-Salon-Terrorists.txt==========

The encrypted jihad
We can't stop terrorists from using uncrackable codes. So we shouldn't even try.

By Barak Jolish

Feb. 4, 2002 | Here's a tip for Treasury Department agents
tracking al-Qaida's finances: You might want to pay a visit to the
volume discount department at Dell Computer. Al-Qaida, it
seems, has been an avid consumer of computers over the last
several years, and is especially fond of laptops. It isn't hard to


==========> 02-05-02-NewScientist-RIPA-AntiSnoopingOS.txt==========

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992335
 
Anti-snooping operating system close to launch 
16:28 28 May 02
Will Knight
 
Computer activists in Britain are close to completing an operating system that 
could undermine government efforts to the wiretap the internet. The UK Home 
Office has condemned the project as potentially providing a new tool for 
criminals.


==========> 02-05-02-NewsFactor-QuantumCrypto.txt==========

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17553.html

Unbreakable Code Could Thwart Cyber Crooks
By Lou Hirsh
NewsFactor Sci::Tech, 
Part of the NewsFactor Network
May 02, 2002

Encryption is literally about to make a quantum leap, thanks to a method that 
its designers describe as an "unbreakable code" that keeps keys to information 


==========> 02-05-27-ComputerWorld-CryptofortheMasses.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,71442,00.html

You may retrieve this story by entering QuickLink# 29731
Cryptography For the Masses
By GARY H. ANTHES 
MAY 27, 2002

Cryptography expert Martin Hellman, co-inventor of Diffie- Hellman public-key 
encryption, says he never encrypts his e-mail. It's just too much trouble. 



==========> 02-06-20-NYT-Markoff-TCPA-Issues.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/20CODE.html

June 20, 2002
Fears of Misuse of Encryption System Are Voiced
By JOHN MARKOFF

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19  A leading European computer security and privacy 
advocate is challenging an effort by the American computer industry to create a 
standard to protect software and digital content, calling the plan a smoke 
screen by established companies to protect their existing markets.


==========> 02-06-24-InfoWorld-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/24/020624hnpalladium.xml

June 24, 2002 11:32 AM 
Microsoft plans new security system in future Windows 
By Sam Costello and Peter Sayer 

MICROSOFT WANTS TO change the fundamental architecture of the PC,
adding security hardware to a future release of its Windows operating system, 
the
company acknowledged Monday, after a media report and an analyst briefed by the


==========> 02-06-24-TheRegister-2-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html

The register
MS to micro-manage your computer
By Richard Forno
Posted: 24/06/2002 at 05:04 GMT

A recent MSNBC article by techno-pundit Steven Levy discusses
Microsoft's plans for a new computer operating environment
(code-named "Palladium") that links hardware, software, and data into a neat


==========> 02-06-24-TheRegister-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html

The Register
MS DRM OS, retagged 'secure OS' to ship with Longhorn?
By John Lettice
Posted: 24/06/2002 at 08:59 GMT

The Microsoft Secure PC project is rolling out, and could be with us as early
as the next major version of Windows, Longhorn. The whole idea of a
computer that just plain won't let you steal other people's stuff is of course a


==========> 02-06-25-TheRegister-Palladium-GPL.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html

The Register
MS to eradicate GPL, hence Linux
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 25/06/2002 at 22:30 GMT

Yesterday, as we all know, Microsoft fed an 'exclusive' story about its new
'Palladium' DRM/PKI Trust Machine to Newsweek hack Steven Levy (a guy
who writes without irony of "high-level encryption"), presumably because they


==========> 02-06-26-ExtremeTech-MS-Palladium-AMD-MotherboardDesign.txt==========

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,282114,00.asp

June 26, 2002 
Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design 
By  Mark Hachman 

  A two-year-old white paper authored by AMD and encryption firm Wave Systems
  may offer additional clues to the design of PCs incorporating Palladium,
  Microsoft's new security initiative. 



==========> 02-06-26-RossAnderson-TCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt==========

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions 

Version 0.1 26 June 2002 

1. What are TCPA and Palladium? 

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), an initiative 
led by Intel. Their website is here. Their stated goal is `a new computing 


==========> 02-07-01-Newsweek-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1

The Big Secret
An exclusive first look at Microsoft’s ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the 
personal computer to
ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights. Will you buy it? 
By Steven Levy
NEWSWEEK

July 1 issue   In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a


==========> 02-07-09-RossAnderson-UpdatedTCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt==========

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
Version 1.0 - 9 July 2002
Ross Anderson 

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by 
Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that 
will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that 
Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will 


==========> 02-07-10-SJMerc-OutlookPGPPluginBug.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3638319.htm

  Posted on Wed, Jul. 10, 2002
  Security flaw afflicts popular technology for encrypting e-mail

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The world's most popular software for scrambling sensitive 
e-mails suffers from a programming flaw that could allow hackers to attack a 
user's computer and, in some circumstances, unscramble messages.

  The software, called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, is the de facto standard 


==========> 02-07-20-SJMerc-DG-MSPalladium.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/3
703596.htm

Posted on Sat, Jul. 20, 2002
Hollywood, tech make suspicious pairing
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  Last week, some of America's most influential technology executives wrote a 
let's-be-pals letter to the heads of the entertainment industry. Surely, said 


==========> 02-09-00-AtlanticMonthly-SchneierProfile-CryptoSecurityRevie.txt==========

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm

The Atlantic Monthly | September 2002 
Homeland Insecurity 
A top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make 
matters worse. Forget "foolproof" technologywe need systems designed to fail 
smartly
    
                  by Charles C. Mann 
        


==========> 02-10-21-Cryptome-ReviewOfMSPalladiumMITTalk.txt==========

http://cryptome.org/palladium-mit.htm

21 October 2002 
Date:     Friday, Oct 18, 2002
Time:     10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon
Place:    NOTE: NE43-518, 200 Tech Square
Title:    Palladium
Speaker:  Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corp.
Hosts:    Ron Rivest and Hal Abelson



==========> 02-10-21-NewsForge-Stallman-trustedComputing.txt==========

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1449250

Linux.Com
The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source
Can you trust your computer?
2002.10.21 11:14
By Richard Stallman

Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their 
computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call 


==========> 02-11-15-Wired-WiFiCryptoFix-WPA-NotPerfect.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56350,00.html

Wi-Fi Encryption Fix Not Perfect  
By Elisa Batista 
02:00 AM Nov. 15, 2002 PT

The biggest security risk for "Wi-Fi" wireless Internet networks is that users 
sometimes fail to turn on their encryption software. 

But even the responsible ones who use the encryption program -- Wired 


==========> 02-11-15-ZDNetNews-QuantumCrypto.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-965957.html

New light shed on unbreakable encryption
By Sandeep Junnarkar 
Special to ZDNet News
November 15, 2002, 6:59 AM PT

Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of
light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by
breaking the physical laws of nature. 


==========> 03-01-13-FedCompWeek-WiFiProtectedAccess-WPA-BetterThanWEP.txt==========

Federal Computer Week
Gearing up for wireless security
By Brian Robinson
Jan. 13, 2003

If wireless users can endure one more round of debates about security
standards, they may soon be able to buy actual products.

It's no secret that built-in security functions lack current wireless
local-area network products, a situation due largely to the inadequacy of


==========> 03-03-31-USAToday-Patriot2-CryptoUseWouldExtendedSentences.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-03-31-crypto-rights_x.htm

Posted 3/31/2003 9:34 AM 
Proposed encryption laws could prove draconian, many fear

NEW YORK (AP)  Cheating on income taxes or neglecting to pay sales taxes on 
online
shopping could get you five extra years in prison if the government succeeds in 
restricting
data-scrambling technology, encryption-rights advocates fear. 


==========> 03-04-10-SFGate-CFP03FocussesonCivilLibertiesIssues.txt==========

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/04/10/cfp.DTL

War on Electronic Privacy 
Attendees of Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference fight for high tech 
civil liberties 
Annalee Newitz, Special to SF Gate 
Thursday, April 10, 2003 

The giant silver coffee dispensers positioned at the
center of the meeting rooms in the New Yorker Hotel


==========> 03-05-26-PCWorld-PGPUsedByTerroristsAndRightsActivists.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110841,00.asp

PGP Encryption Proves Powerful
 If the police and FBI can't crack the code, is the technology too strong?
Philip Willan, IDG News Service
Monday, May 26, 2003

ROME -- Italian police have seized at least two Psion personal digital 
assistants from
members of the Red Brigades terrorist organization. But the major investigative 


==========> 03-06-29-NYT-TrustedComputingIssues.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/technology/30SECU.html

A Safer System for Home PC's Feels Like Jail to Some Critics
John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
A sample of the code for a more secure version of Microsoft Windows.
John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times

Mario Juarez, left, the group product manager for Microsoft's security business 
unit, discussing with Aaron Verstraete their work on the "trusted computing" 
software within the Windows program.

DigitalCopyProtect-DRM

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01-11-15-SJMerc-InetTaxBan.txt
01-11-19-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt
01-11-19-SJMerc-Inet-Shop-Complaints.txt
01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt
01-11-28-SJMerc-InternetSalesTax.txt
01-12-21-Kaner-17thUCITAMeeting.txt
01-12-24-InfoWeek-RRubinUCITA.txt
02-01-07-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt
02-01-14-eWeek-SWLiability.txt
02-02-04-ComputerWorld-ABA-UCITA.txt
02-02-10-SJMerc-DG-NetSalesTaxes.txt
02-02-28-PhillyInquirer-ShrinkWrap-ClickOnAgreements.txt
02-03-01-InfoWorld-NYStateCensorshipLawsuit.txt
02-03-05-ComputerWorld-UCITATransferability.txt
02-03-18-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Virginia.txt
02-04-00-TechReview-Simson-National-IDs.txt
02-04-03-ACMUbiquity-UCITA-Bad.txt
02-04-10-NYT-Markoff-MS-ShelvesPersonaSvc.txt
02-04-11-Reuters-NetReducesCorpProfits.txt
02-05-07-SJMerc-EU-VAT-USCompanies.txt
02-06-03-ComputerWorld-UCITA-BackersTryAgain.txt
02-06-27-SJMerc-SpainPassesECommerceLaw.txt
02-06-27-WSJ-CourtRulesSoftwareSold.txt
02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt
02-07-05-SJMerc-EU-AntitrustChiefMarioMonti.txt
02-07-06-SJMerc-CA-OnLinePrivacyPush.txt
02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt
02-07-15-LibertyAlliance-1.0Spec.txt
02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UCITA-StillBad.txt
02-08-06-ALA-NCCUSL-PassesUCITAAmmendments.txt
02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacki.txt
02-08-06-WashPost-NCCUSLApprovesUCITAChanges.txt
02-08-07-SJMerc-DG-MicrosoftEULAsGetWorse.txt
02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt
02-09-16-NYT-UCITA-Battles.txt
02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieS.txt
02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt
02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt
02-10-25-ALA-UCITARidesAgainIn2003.txt
02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt
02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt
02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt
02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt
02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-21-USSenate-McCain'sCommerceCommAgenda.txt
02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt
02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt
02-12-09-ComputerWorld-ABAToVoteOnUCITANextYear.txt
02-12-26-SJMerc-TaxOnInternetSalesCouldHelpStates.txt
02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt
03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt
03-01-18-NYT-NYCourtRulesAgainstSoftwareReviewPolicy.txt
03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt
03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt
03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt
03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt
03-01-30-ACM-USACM-UCITALetter.txt
03-01-30-SJMerc-GovDavisMayBackInternetSalesTaxPlan.txt
03-02-06-SJMerc-CalifControllerBacksInternetSalesAndAccessTa.txt
03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVide.txt
03-02-10-SJMErc-WomanSuesSWMakersOverInabilityToSeeLicenseTe.txt
03-02-11-ALA-UCITAFailsToReceiveABAApproval.txt
03-02-11-NWFusion-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA.txt
03-02-11-SJMerc-CCIAFIlesComplaintAgainstMSWithEU.txt
03-02-12-SJMerc-DG-SomeMerchantsCollectingInternetSalesTaxes.txt
03-02-13-PCWorld-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA-NCCUSLVowsToContinue.txt
03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt
03-02-17-PCMag-Dvorak-UCITA-StillBadNews.txt
03-02-24-PCMag-Dvorak-SalesTaxesOnInternetPurchasesUnconstit.txt
03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImprove.txt
03-03-05-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersFightingUphillBattleAgainstSa.txt
03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetwor.txt
03-03-27-SJMerc-CAJoinsStreamlinedTaxProject.txt
03-03-31-Wyden-SupportsS52-PermanentBanOnInternetTaxes.txt
03-04-01-SJMerc-PayPalGamblingCollectionsViolateUSAPatriotAc.txt
03-04-04-SJMerc-GoogleToProvidePaidSearchingToAmazon.txt
03-04-08-SJMerc-ATTPlansPrepaidWebEcommerceCards.txt
03-04-09-SJMerc-FBI-InternetFraudComplaintsTripleIn2002.txt
03-04-16-InternetSeeks-Dow-JonesonesTestsIMForPremiumContent.txt
03-04-16-SJMerc-DG-Apple-UniversalRecordsDealWouldConstrainO.txt
03-04-21-MotleyFool-AppleShouldBuyUniversalMusic.txt
03-04-28-WSJ-VaryingLawsInhibitInternationalECommerce.txt
03-04-29-SJMerc-AppleiTunesOffers99CentMusicDownloads.txt
03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt
03-05-01-SJMerc-AppleiTunesGoodAndBad.txt
03-05-01-SJMerc-FTC-StatesCrackdownOnInternetAuctionFraud.txt
03-05-01-SJMerc-OnlineAuctionFraud-FTCTakesAction.txt
03-05-01-TheRegister-AppleiTunesProvidesDRM.txt
03-05-01-Wired-CurrentMusicDownloadPricesTooHigh.txt
03-05-14-Apple-iTunesTopsTwoMillionDownloads.txt
03-05-19-TheRegister-RoxioBuysPressplayToRelaunchNapster.txt
03-05-20-SJMerc-PressplayDealToLetNapsterOperateAgain.txt
03-05-27-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersRhapsodyMusicService.txt
03-05-27-CNETNews-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt
03-05-28-SeattlePI-OnlineMusicServices.txt
03-05-28-SeattlePI-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt
03-05-30-ALA-VirginiaEnactsProtectionFromUCITA.txt
03-06-04-ComputerWorld-MassMayAdoptAntiUCITALaw.txt
03-06-05-MSNBC-PearlJamLeavesRecordCoForInternet.txt
03-06-14-FreeToTinker-StatusOfStateSuperDMCALaws.txt
03-06-19-BNA-CalCourt-LimitedDisclosureOfForumNotOK.txt
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==========> 01-10-26-USACM-UCITA-FL.txt==========

FYI - Last week, the Executive Committee of USACM approved the attached
letter to the Florida State Legislature which registers USACM's concerns
regarding the proposed UCITA legislation.  The letter was delivered on
Friday, October 26.
Regards - Jeff Grove, ACM Policy Office

October 26, 2001
State Representative Chris Hart IV
Chairman, Florida House Committee on Information Technology
404 South Monroe Street


==========> 01-11-08-Wired-SalesTax.txt==========

Senate Net Tax Vote Looms 
By Declan McCullagh 
9:40 a.m. Nov. 8, 2001 PST 

WASHINGTON -- The Senate may vote as early as Tuesday on a plan that would 
permit states to collect
Internet sales taxes. 

The bill, championed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), abandons Capitol Hill's 
hands-off approach to online


==========> 01-11-09-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Opp.txt==========

UCITA opposition turns up heat

By Lee Copeland and Patrick Thibodeau

(Nov. 09, 2001) WASHINGTON -- Opponents of the vendor-backed UCITA software 
licensing law will meet here next week to seek major changes, including a 
prohibition of "self-help," which lets a vendor shut down a user's system 
remotely. Although UCITA's backers have signaled a willingness to delete the 
shutoff provision, critics say that alone isn't enough. 



==========> 01-11-14-Kaner-UCITAReview.txt==========

UCITA (the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) is being reviewed at 
the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC this Fri/Sat/Sunday. The meeting is ostensibly to 
consider amendments to UCITA that might increase support for the bill. The 
meeting includes the UCITA Drafting Committee, members of a task force on UCITA 
formed by the American Bar Association, representatives of the leading 
publishers, representatives of the user communities, and a few representatives 
of software development professionals (e.g. Don Gotterbarn, Phil Koopman (an 
expert on embedded software, from CMU), Sharon Roberts (representing 
Independent Computer Consultants Assoc), Fred von Lohmann (from EFF) and me.) 
The motivation for the review is a decision by the American Bar Association to 


==========> 01-11-15-SJMerc-InetTaxBan.txt==========

Europe waffles on spam; holds the cookies 

By Paul Meller

(IDG) -- A Europe-wide measure on direct marketing
via e-mail appeared less likely than ever to win approval Tuesday, as
the European Parliament failed to agree whether marketers should be
allowed to send unsolicited messages to potential customers.

"Neither side won this argument. A political


==========> 01-11-19-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt==========

Bar association hears debate over UCITA

  By Patrick Thibodeau
 
(Nov. 19, 2001) WASHINGTON -- In an unusual forum that ended yesterday, a 
special committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) heard two-and-a-half 
days of arguments over the proposed software licensing law known as UCITA as 
part of its attempt to determine whether it should back the measure. 

The ABA's position is seen as critical to the law's ultimate fate. 


==========> 01-11-19-SJMerc-Inet-Shop-Complaints.txt==========

Posted at 2:07 p.m. PST Monday, Nov. 19, 2001 

Complaints about Internet shopping and services on the rise

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Internet shopping and services have become a
leading source of consumer complaints, joining grievances about auto repair
and telemarketing, a survey finds.

Problems with auto sales and household goods shared the top spot in the
annual list of consumer complaints released Monday by the National


==========> 01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

Thirty Nations Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
26 Nov 2001, 10:04 AM CST

The United States and 29 other nations signed a treaty last Friday establishing 
common tools and rules for fighting Internet crime. 

On Nov. 23, foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan and South 
Africa joined their counterparts in 26 other countries in signing the Council 


==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-InternetSalesTax.txt==========

Posted at 6:30 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 

Bush's signature extends Net tax moratorium for two years

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shoppers who surf the Web can count on
continued tax-free Internet access now that President Bush has signed into
law a two-year extension of the ban on Internet-related taxes.

Bush, who had wanted Congress to send him a longer tax moratorium, signed
the legislation Wednesday to ``ensure that the growth of the Internet is not


==========> 01-12-21-Kaner-17thUCITAMeeting.txt==========

A few weeks ago, Professor Phil Koopman, Sharon Roberts, Professor Don 
Gotterbarn and I went to the 17th meeting of the Uniform Computer 
Information Transactions Act drafting committee (I've attended 16 of these 
meetings).

The drafting committee is under intense pressure to work a political 
compromise, because, after passing in Virginia and Maryland, UCITA has been 
rejected in every state that has considered it and three states have passed 
"bomb shelter" laws designed to keep UCITA-governed contract rules out of 
their states. Additionally, the National Association of Attorneys General 


==========> 01-12-24-InfoWeek-RRubinUCITA.txt==========

Industry Comment: The Necessary Demise Of UCITA
    Dec. 24, 2001

Information Week

Oh say can UCITA? Industry observer Robert
Rubin floodlights pending state legislation that
may severely impact your rights when buying
software.



==========> 02-01-07-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt==========

UCITA Changes Fail to Appease

But opponents welcome ban on remote disabling
By Patrick Thibodeau 
(Jan. 07, 2002) Washington 

The drafters of the controversial UCITA software licensing law have done an 
about-face on some of its key provisions, including recommending a ban on 
remote system shut-offs by software vendors.  But the changes don't appear to 
go far enough to win support from businesses fighting state-by-state adoption 


==========> 02-01-14-eWeek-SWLiability.txt==========

January 14, 2002
Software Liability Gaining Attention
By Dennis Fisher

  Hacker attacks that exploit flaws in commercial software have caused tens of 
billions of dollars in damage in the past year.  The Code Red worm alone is 
estimated to have cost enterprise users more than $2 billion. 

  Software companies have hidden behind user agreements that protect vendors 
from liability for such damages, and few  victims have taken their fight to 


==========> 02-02-04-ComputerWorld-ABA-UCITA.txt==========

ABA: UCITA law confusing, susceptible to litigation
By Patrick Thibodeau 
(Feb. 04, 2002) WASHINGTON -- 

An American Bar Association committee examining UCITA, the software licensing 
law, has released a report (download PDF) calling the controversial measure 
"extremely difficult to understand" and warning that if it isn't redrafted, the 
result will be "considerable controversy and litigation over what its various 
'rules' really mean." 



==========> 02-02-10-SJMerc-DG-NetSalesTaxes.txt==========

Posted on Sun, Feb. 10, 2002

Tax policies give an unfair advantage to online merchants
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

Oh, the irony, proclaimed some commentators on Jan. 22. That was the
day Amazon, the online retailer, announced its first actual quarterly profit.
It was also the day that Kmart, a traditional retailer, filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection.


==========> 02-02-28-PhillyInquirer-ShrinkWrap-ClickOnAgreements.txt==========

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2002/02/28/living/health_science/2762184.htm

  Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2002
  Courts starting to recognize software and Web fine print
  By Anick Jesdanun
  Associated Press

  Read the fine print, and you'll discover you can't use Microsoft's logos and 
cartoons to belittle the software giant. Nor should you use Opera's Web browser 
to pilot an aircraft or a nuclear facility. 


==========> 02-03-01-InfoWorld-NYStateCensorshipLawsuit.txt==========

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/04/020304opfoster.xml

March 1, 2002 01:01 PM PST 
A censorship test case 
Ed Foster 

COULD FREEDOM of speech and freedom of the press be lost to the fine print?
Don't dismiss the possibility. We may have already lost more than any of us 
realize.



==========> 02-03-05-ComputerWorld-UCITATransferability.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68815,00.html

Premier 100: UCITA software transferability rights raise concerns
By Thomas Hoffman 

  (Mar. 05, 2002) Palm Desert, Calif. -- Under Virginia's UCITA-type law, 
companies aren't allowed to assign the rights to software licenses they inherit 
from a merger or acquisition with another company, according to H. Jameson 
Holcombe, CIO at Cambrian Communications LLC in Fairfax, Va. 



==========> 02-03-18-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Virginia.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69198,00.html

Virginia to nix key UCITA provision
Merging firms could be kept from transferring their software licenses
By Patrick Thibodeau 

  (Mar. 18, 2002) The state of Virginia is on the verge of backpedaling on a 
provision in its UCITA law that blocks vendors from holding up software license 
transfers between users involved in mergers or acquisitions. 



==========> 02-04-00-TechReview-Simson-National-IDs.txt==========

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0402.asp

Identity Card Delusions
Technology Review, April 2002
By Simson Garfinkel

Mandatory national ID cards might cut down on underage drinking, but they 
wouldn't have stopped Richard Reid.

More than 200 million Americans carry driver’s licenses with them every day. 


==========> 02-04-03-ACMUbiquity-UCITA-Bad.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_8.html

UCITA: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
By M. E. Kabay

Proposed legislation to protect vendors has potentially high costs for software 
users.

The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was
developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform


==========> 02-04-10-NYT-Markoff-MS-ShelvesPersonaSvc.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/ebusiness/11NET.html

April 11, 2002
Microsoft Has Shelved Its
Internet 'Persona' Service
By JOHN MARKOFF

      SAN FRANCISCO, April 10  Microsoft
      (news/quote) has quietly shelved a
consumer information service that was once


==========> 02-04-11-Reuters-NetReducesCorpProfits.txt==========

http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=50899&pub=tt&categoryid=626

Net brings consumer savings not corporate profits says academic
By Reuters staff
11 April 2002
   
Suggests Net and comms devices responsible for shrivelled profits.

Is the Internet, with all of its bargains and discounts, short-circuiting 
America's


==========> 02-05-07-SJMerc-EU-VAT-USCompanies.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3214367.htm

Posted on Tue, May. 07, 2002
EU to levy taxes on U.S., non-European e-commerce

  BRUSSELS, May 7 (Reuters) - The European Union approved on Tuesday rules that 
will require U.S. and other non-EU firms to levy value-added tax (VAT) on 
products such as computer games and software they sell on the Internet to 
private customers in the 15-nation bloc.



==========> 02-06-03-ComputerWorld-UCITA-BackersTryAgain.txt==========

Computerworld, June 3, 2002

UCITA backers try again
By PATRICK THIBODEAU

WASHINGTON -- UCITA wasn't adopted in any state legislative session
this year, but the controversial software licensing law, while bruised,
is far from dead.

Indeed, the group that drafted the Uniform Computer Information


==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-SpainPassesECommerceLaw.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3556967.htm

Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002
Spain passes law to regulate Internet content

  MADRID, June 27 (Reuters) - Spain's parliament on Thursday passed a law 
regulating electronic commerce which makes Internet service providers more 
responsible for content on their pages and requires them to store data on 
clients for at least a year. The legislation, designed to bring Spain into line 
with European Union guidelines, is expected to take effect after the summer. It 


==========> 02-06-27-WSJ-CourtRulesSoftwareSold.txt==========

"Software is Often Sold, Not Licensed, Despite What License Agreements Say"
Wall Street Journal Online (06/27/02)
Hart, Jon; Blumenthal, Steve 

To control their intellectual property, software vendors are requiring customers
and distributors to sign licensing agreements that limit buyers' rights to do 
what
they please with the products, yet this runs counter to the basic fact that
customers are purchasing copies of the software. A court recently ruled that
Los Angeles-based Softman Products had the right to unbundle and resell a


==========> 02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3565718.htm

Posted on Fri, Jun. 28, 2002
FTC says search engines should disclose paid listings more clearly

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Internet search engines that take money from Web sites in 
exchange for prominent placement should make that practice clearer to Web 
users, federal regulators said Friday.

  Many search engine Web sites, including AltaVista, LookSmart and AOL Search, 


==========> 02-07-05-SJMerc-EU-AntitrustChiefMarioMonti.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3604337.htm

  Posted on Fri, Jul. 05, 2002
  Q&A: EU competition chief talks antitrust policy
  By Kristi Heim
  Mercury News

  BRUSSELS, Belgium - Mario Monti, who has been called the most powerful man in 
Europe, is competition chief for the European Union and the most formidable of 
its 20 commissioners. He sat down recently with Mercury News reporter Kristi 


==========> 02-07-06-SJMerc-CA-OnLinePrivacyPush.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3612624.htm

  Posted on Sat, Jul. 06, 2002
  Group pushing for online privacy
  By Laura Kurtzman
  Mercury News

  Privacy advocates plan to launch an initiative effort this week with a $1 
million contribution from an E-Loan executive to pressure lawmakers into giving 
consumers more control over their personal financial data.


==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641813.htm

  Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002
  EarthLink hopes to boost broadband demand with digital music service
  By Dawn C. Chmielewski
  Mercury News

  Internet providers have finally recognized the true lesson of Napster: that 
online music will drive broadband adoption faster than you can say, ``Stop, 
thief!''


==========> 02-07-15-LibertyAlliance-1.0Spec.txt==========

http://www.projectliberty.org/press/releases/2002-07-15-1.html

LIBERTY ALLIANCE LAUNCHES FIRST SPECIFICATIONS GIVING USERS  SIMPLIFIED SIGN-ON 
FOR ANY PLATFORM AND DEVICE 

 Alliance's Version 1.0 Specifications and Member Implementations Create 
Foundation  for Federated Network Identification and Authorization

 San Francisco, Calif. (Burton Group Catalyst Conference) - July 15, 2002 - The 
Liberty Alliance Project today announced the public availability of its version 


==========> 02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UCITA-StillBad.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3792640.htm

Posted on Sat, Aug. 03, 2002
UCITA
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

STILL A SWINE: Putting a tuxedo or gown on a pig doesn't make it elegant. And a 
few amendments to a proposed law governing software and online transactions 
haven't made UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, 


==========> 02-08-06-ALA-NCCUSL-PassesUCITAAmmendments.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 63
August 6, 2002

In This Issue:  UCITA amendments pass at NCCUSL Annual Conference amidst much 
controversy

The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) made a wobbly leap 
over another hurdle on its way back to state legislatures last week at the 
annual meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State 


==========> 02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacki.txt==========

http://www4.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=108873

Note Number: FT-17-7138
Proposed Law Will Hurt, Not Help the Online Music Industry
06 August 2002
Robert Batchelder 

A bill before the U.S. Congress would let companies hack peer-to-peer (P2P)
networks to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted music. But the music 
industry


==========> 02-08-06-WashPost-NCCUSLApprovesUCITAChanges.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48570-2002Aug6.html

Group OKs Changes for Net Commerce 
By Ted Bridis
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, August 6, 2002; 2:13 AM 

WASHINGTON –– An organization of states' lawyers has approved changes to a 
package of rules governing Internet commerce, including new limits on the 
ability of technology companies to remotely disable their software on a 


==========> 02-08-07-SJMerc-DG-MicrosoftEULAsGetWorse.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3814833.htm

Posted on Wed, Aug. 07, 2002
End user licenses keep getting more intrusive
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  When you download and start to install the latest bug fixes and security 
patches for Windows XP and Windows 2000, you're confronted with one of those 
lengthy masterpieces of legalese called an ``End User License Agreement,'' or 


==========> 02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3988260.htm

Posted on Mon, Sep. 02, 2002
Subscription online music sites face uphill road
SIMON AVERY
AP Business Writer

  LOS ANGELES - Online subscription music sites have finally arrived. But 
there's been little fanfare, and so far almost no one is buying.



==========> 02-09-16-NYT-UCITA-Battles.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16NECO.html?ex=1033184723&ei=1&en=2
0a0b7927cab3a21

September 16, 2002
A Battle Over Software Licensing
By LAURIE J. FLYNN

A proposed law intended to standardize software licensing from state to state 
has ignited a battle between its supporters   most notably, the business 
software industry  and the many forces who have joined to defeat it.


==========> 02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieS.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4144596.
htm

Posted on Tue, Sep. 24, 2002
Net film provider sues studios
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  An Internet video-on-demand service has filed an antitrust lawsuit against 
Sony Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., alleging the movie studios 


==========> 02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt==========

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20020925/
tc_nm/media_kpmg_dc

Study Faults Media Focus on Copyright Piracy
Wed Sep 25,12:04 AM ET
 By Bob Tourtellotte 

 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Media companies must put less emphasis on protecting 
digital content and instead find ways to make money from digital music and 
movies if they hope to beat back copyright pirates who threaten their 


==========> 02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt==========

FAST FORWARD:
Tuning Out the Customer
FORTUNE.COM
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
By David Kirkpatrick

Something has gone terribly wrong in the relationship between media
companies and their customers. The use and enjoyment of music and video
appears to be rising, as a multitude of new methods of digitally
receiving and using it emerge. But rather than welcome the opportunity


==========> 02-10-25-ALA-UCITARidesAgainIn2003.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 85
October 25, 2002

In This Issue: UCITA WILL RIDE AGAIN IN 2003

[1] NCCUSL approves new amendments

In August 2002, The National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State
Laws (NCCUSL) approved 38 amendments to UCITA. The changes attempt to


==========> 02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4439006.htm

Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002
Plunge in online music sales blamed on file sharing
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Online sales of music CDs are plummeting three times as fast as traditional 
retail CD sales, another sign of the corrosive impact of file-sharing services 
on record sales, a New York research group reports today.


==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4441090.htm

Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002
Growing popularity of CD burning, illegal song-swapping cuts into online music 
sales

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The growing popularity of CD burning and illegal 
song-swapping over the Internet has cut into online music sales, sending them 
tumbling 25 percent this year, according to a survey released Monday.



==========> 02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965194.html?tag=fd_top

Movielink ready to roll
By Stefanie Olsen 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 10, 2002, 6:19 PM PT

After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the 
green light to its online movie rental service. 



==========> 02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4492236.htm

Posted on Mon, Nov. 11, 2002
Major studios to launch Net movie rentals
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Five major motion picture studios today plan to launch an Internet movie 
rental service that positions Hollywood for the day when computers emerge as 
the hub of digital home entertainment.


==========> 02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt==========

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073743&device=

HudsonHawk.com
Movielink will be another Internet flop.
By Ben Fritz
Posted Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:06 AM PT 

On Nov. 11, five major studiosUniversal, Paramount, Sony, Warner
Bros., and MGMunveil Movielink, a joint venture that, for the first
time, allows customers to download a large assortment of studio films.


==========> 02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4513677.htm

Posted on Wed, Nov. 13, 2002
EMI takes lead, jumps into online music sales
LABEL OKS DIGITAL SALES OF JUST-RELEASED SINGLES
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Record labels are suddenly embracing online music services with a fervor that 
can be traced to the rapid erosion of its traditional business -- sales of 


==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4529298.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002
Robbie Williams CD hits Net, but is it a plant?

  LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Songs from Robbie Williams's CD ``Escapology'' are 
appearing on free file-sharing Web sites days before the release hits the 
stores.

  But there's a catch -- many of the tracks, which Reuters heard on popular 


==========> 02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm

Posted on Tue, Nov. 19, 2002
Universal Music kicks off digital download plan

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music 
company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks 
available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new 
front in the marketing of digital music.



==========> 02-11-21-USSenate-McCain'sCommerceCommAgenda.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm

Posted on Tue, Nov. 19, 2002
Universal Music kicks off digital download plan

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music 
company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks 
available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new 
front in the marketing of digital music.



==========> 02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4647117.htm

Posted on Mon, Dec. 02, 2002
Fee-based online music services sing the blues
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

On his way to MusicNet headquarters in New York, Alan McGlade,
chief executive of one of the record labels' newest online ventures,
passes a humbling sight: the largest McDonald's restaurant in the


==========> 02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4661484.htm

Posted on Wed, Dec. 04, 2002
RealNetworks, Starz to Offer Online Film
HELEN JUNG
Associated Press

SEATTLE - RealNetworks Inc. and cable movie channel company
Starz Encore Group are teaming up to offer movie subscriptions over
the Internet.


==========> 02-12-09-ComputerWorld-ABAToVoteOnUCITANextYear.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,76494,00.html

ABA to Vote on UCITA Next Year
By PATRICK THIBODEAU 
DECEMBER 09, 2002

WASHINGTONThe American Bar Association is expected to vote early next year on
whether the controversial UCITA software licensing law is fit for state 
adoption, an action that
may help determine the law's fate.


==========> 02-12-26-SJMerc-TaxOnInternetSalesCouldHelpStates.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4817424.htm

Posted on Thu, Dec. 26, 2002
Sales tax on Internet may help states
JIM WASSERMAN
Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As states across the country struggle with
deficits well into the billions, many officials are beginning to eye sales
taxes on online shopping - which may seem like chump change but


==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt==========

Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues
By TechNews.com Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM

In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out
with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock
performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks
and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech
business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes


==========> 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4884503.htm

Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003
Net users shake off stingy ways, pay for content

LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Internet's reputation as a haven
for freeloaders is beginning to lose some meaning as research released
on Monday suggested the majority of Western European online users
are willing to pay for digital content.



==========> 03-01-18-NYT-NYCourtRulesAgainstSoftwareReviewPolicy.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/18/business/18SOFT.html?ex=1043914789&ei=1&en=ff4
d9301bb3d6409

Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy
New York Times
January 18, 2003
By MATT RICHTEL

A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular
antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy


==========> 03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_2.html

Intellectual Property Rights of Multimedia Enriched Websites
By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun
Can original print and music survive the multimedia technology hoax?

Generally speaking, over the past two centuries copyright has survived numerous
technological advances such as the player piano, phonograph recordings, motion
pictures, television, radio, cassettes and compact discs. Often, these new
technologies have posed challenges to copyright law's applicability. Although


==========> 03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982170.html?tag=fd_top

Retailers in concert on digital music 
By Margaret Kane 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 27, 2003, 5:41 AM PT

A group of music retailers has formed a consortium to sell digital music. 

Best Buy, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, Trans World Entertainment, 


==========> 03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt==========

http://www.nypost.com/technology/67468.htm

MUSIC STORES BAND TOGETHER TO LAUNCH DIGITAL ECHO SERVICE
By BEN SILVERMAN 

January 27, 2003 -- A consortium of music retailers will
today announce the launch of a new company aimed at
gaining a foothold in the burgeoning digital music space. 

The formation of Echo - created with investments from


==========> 03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt==========

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030127/72/36uix.html

Monday January 27, 11:10 AM 
E-Commerce Report: Taming The Frontier -- The Internet Was
Going To Be A Place Without Rules, Without Borders; Well, Guess What?
By Michael Totty 

DON'T LOOK NOW, but the freewheeling days of the Internet are coming to an end. 

Since its infancy, the Net has been seen as a place independent of the 


==========> 03-01-30-ACM-USACM-UCITALetter.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/usacm/Letters/ucitaABA.htm

January 30, 2003

 

H. Thomas ("Tommy") Wells, Jr., 

Chairman, House of Delegates



==========> 03-01-30-SJMerc-GovDavisMayBackInternetSalesTaxPlan.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5064128.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003
Davis may back Internet tax plan
By Ann E. Marimow
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau

SACRAMENTO - After years of adamantly rejecting an Internet tax
plan that he said would slow the growth of the dot-com economy, Gov.
Gray Davis is now willing to consider a proposal that would force many


==========> 03-02-06-SJMerc-CalifControllerBacksInternetSalesAndAccessTa.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5125967.htm

Posted on Thu, Feb. 06, 2003
California controller backs Net tax
By Mary Anne Ostrom and Dan Reed
Mercury News

State Controller Steve Westly said Thursday that he has been asked by
Gov. Gray Davis to develop new Internet tax policies.



==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVide.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147312.htm

Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003
Video on demand presents chicken-and-egg dilemma

NEW YORK (AP) - Fed up with driving to the video store in the cold of
winter, Beverly Boyarsky thought she had found the perfect solution: video
on demand.

For about $80 a month, the Huntington Station, N.Y., woman could order


==========> 03-02-10-SJMErc-WomanSuesSWMakersOverInabilityToSeeLicenseTe.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/silico

Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003
Woman sues software makers over licensing terms
By Kristi Heim
Mercury News

With most products on the market, consumers expect to read terms of
the deal before agreeing to buy. Should software be any different?



==========> 03-02-11-ALA-UCITAFailsToReceiveABAApproval.txt==========

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:05:39 -0500
From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" 
To: ALA Washington Office Newsline 
Subject: [ALA-WO:794] INFO/UCITA: UCITA Fails to Receive ABA Approval

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 14
February 11, 2003

In This Issue: UCITA fails to receive American Bar Association


==========> 03-02-11-NWFusion-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA.txt==========

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0212ucitahits.html

Software licensing act hits snag with lawyer group
By Grant Gross
IDG News Service, 02/11/03

The future of a proposed law that would standardize software
licensing agreements across the U.S. appeared to be in doubt
after the American Bar Association (ABA) failed to approve
it at its national meeting last week. 


==========> 03-02-11-SJMerc-CCIAFIlesComplaintAgainstMSWithEU.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5154851.htm

Posted on Tue, Feb. 11, 2003
EU coalition fires new antitrust blast at Microsoft

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A coalition of computer, telephone and
Internet companies announced a new offensive in their battle against
Microsoft Corp., accusing it of violating European antitrust law with its
Windows XP operating system.



==========> 03-02-12-SJMerc-DG-SomeMerchantsCollectingInternetSalesTaxes.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5163515.htm

Posted on Wed, Feb. 12, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Taxing Issues
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal
(www.dangillmor.com):



==========> 03-02-13-PCWorld-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA-NCCUSLVowsToContinue.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109349,00.asp

Drive Resumes for Standard Software License
Commissioners, endorsed by some vendors, will keep campaigning without American 
Bar
Association backing.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Thursday, February 13, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The authors of a prototype software-licensing law intend to keep 


==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt==========

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html

Congress Preps Tech Agenda
  Monday, February 17, 2003
  By Liza Porteus

  WASHINGTON  U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech
  agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of
  the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy,
  privacy and security, among other issues.


==========> 03-02-17-PCMag-Dvorak-UCITA-StillBadNews.txt==========

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,892275,00.asp

February 17, 2003 
Crummy UCITA Legislation is Back 
By John C. Dvorak 

There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the American Bar
Association refused to endorse the horrible Uniform Computer Information
Transaction Act (UCITA), which is designed to standardize the total legality of 
rigid


==========> 03-02-24-PCMag-Dvorak-SalesTaxesOnInternetPurchasesUnconstit.txt==========

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,901631,00.asp

February 24, 2003 
Illegal Internet Sales Tax Looms 
By John C. Dvorak 

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No preference
shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one
State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be
obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. Article 1, section 9 of the 


==========> 03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImprove.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/5275544.htm

Posted on Thu, Feb. 27, 2003
Bigger selection helps AOL's MusicNet, other pay services
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Attention, all you ``honest'' music pirates: It's time to pay up or shut up.



==========> 03-03-05-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersFightingUphillBattleAgainstSa.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5321190.htm

Posted on Wed, Mar. 05, 2003
Miguel Helft: E-tailers are fighting an uphill battle against Internet tax
By Miguel Helft

The debate over Internet taxes is hot again.

Government officials everywhere are scrambling for more revenue, and
with the Internet industry far weaker than a few years ago, proposing a


==========> 03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetwor.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/112665_yahoo15.shtml

Saturday, March 15, 2003
Yahoo! streaming media service will compete with RealNetworks
By DAN RICHMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will introduce Platinum, a streaming-media
subscription service that will challenge the well-entrenched leadership of
Seattle's RealNetworks Inc. 


==========> 03-03-27-SJMerc-CAJoinsStreamlinedTaxProject.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5494930.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 27, 2003
California officials step up effort to tax online sales
By the Mercury News

California officials stepped up their efforts Wednesday to
collect taxes on Internet sales.

The Board of Equalization voted 3-2 to become more actively


==========> 03-03-31-Wyden-SupportsS52-PermanentBanOnInternetTaxes.txt==========

http://wyden.senate.gov/media/2003/03312003_internet.htm

EBAY, Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Federated Department Stores, More 
Letters...
Senators Highlight Growing Support For Permanant Ban on Unfair Internet Taxes 
Message of "equality for E-commerce" gains support on, off Capitol Hill 
March 31, 2003     

Washington, DC -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) 
today joined


==========> 03-04-01-SJMerc-PayPalGamblingCollectionsViolateUSAPatriotAc.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5532248.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 01, 2003
PayPal violated law, says filing
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

A federal prosecutor in Missouri is claiming that PayPal, eBay's online payments
subsidiary, violated the USA Patriot Act by processing Internet gambling 
transactions,


==========> 03-04-04-SJMerc-GoogleToProvidePaidSearchingToAmazon.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5558456.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 04, 2003
Google to provide paid listings to Amazon
DEAL IS `NEXT STEP' IN CONNECTING CONSUMERS WITH CONTENT
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

Continuing the rapid expansion of its search and advertising network,
Google said Thursday that it will provide paid listings and search features


==========> 03-04-08-SJMerc-ATTPlansPrepaidWebEcommerceCards.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5587463.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2003
AT&T debuts Prepaid Web Cents cards

NEW YORK (AP) - They'll soon be hanging from hooks at checkout
counters across the country, most likely near the bubble gum and breath
mints.

Convenience store novelties,


==========> 03-04-09-SJMerc-FBI-InternetFraudComplaintsTripleIn2002.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5595492.htm

Posted on Wed, Apr. 09, 2003
FBI reports Internet fraud complaints tripled in 2002

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fraud on the Internet rose sharply in
2002, with the FBI reporting more than 48,000 complaints
referred to prosecutors -- triple the number of the year before.

By far the most common complaint was auction fraud, followed by


==========> 03-04-16-InternetSeeks-Dow-JonesonesTestsIMForPremiumContent.txt==========

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8800174

Dow Jones Tests IM For Premium Content Delivery 
By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek 

Instant messaging continues its march toward
becoming a widely accepted information medium.
In the latest expansion of business uses for IM,
Dow Jones & Co. is experimenting with the
technology as an emerging channel for delivering


==========> 03-04-16-SJMerc-DG-Apple-UniversalRecordsDealWouldConstrainO.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5646059.htm

Posted on Wed, Apr. 16, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Honeypot snares raise ethical and legal issues
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal
(www.dangillmor.com):



==========> 03-04-21-MotleyFool-AppleShouldBuyUniversalMusic.txt==========

http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030421ram.htm

American Idle
The music industry is having problems with volume control. Apple is draped in 
cobwebs. So, when
rumors began to make the rounds earlier this month that Apple was interested in 
buying
Vivendi's Universal Music Group, it may have brought images of one odd couple. 
However, Rick
Munarriz thinks that opposites can attract. The music industry needs Apple. 


==========> 03-04-28-WSJ-VaryingLawsInhibitInternationalECommerce.txt==========

"So Many Countries, So Many Laws" Wall Street Journal (04/28/03) P. R8;
       Newman, Matthew 

       E-commerce was supposed to support border-free online trade, but an
       international e-commerce architecture that shields the rights of 
retailers or
       shoppers and deters digital piracy has not been established, despite 
years of
       negotiations. As a result, e-tailers are canceling or refusing 
international


==========> 03-04-29-SJMerc-AppleiTunesOffers99CentMusicDownloads.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5742674.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2003
Apple launches online music store
200,000 SONGS AVAILABLE FOR 99-CENT DOWNLOADS
By Jon Fortt
Mercury News

Apple Computer began offering 99-cent song downloads from all five
major recording companies Monday, prompting competitors to


==========> 03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html 

"Sending of Spam With Fraud Is Now Felony in Virginia"
       New York Times (04/30/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul 

       Growing public anger toward unsolicited commercial email and the 
deceptive
       methods that spammers use is causing Congress and U.S. states to consider
       tough solutions, and one of the harshest anti-spam measures was passed 
into


==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-AppleiTunesGoodAndBad.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760390.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003
Apple hits a high note with music store
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

I've just yanked myself out of the infamous Steve Jobs reality
distortion field, so I can try to give a rational evaluation of
Apple Computer's new iTunes


==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-FTC-StatesCrackdownOnInternetAuctionFraud.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760311.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003
Fake Internet auctions bilked buyers, FTC says
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

In the biggest crackdown yet on Internet auction fraud, federal and
State authorities, said they have taken legal action in 57 cases that
Bilked thousands of consumers nationwide.


==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-OnlineAuctionFraud-FTCTakesAction.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760311.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003
Fake Internet auctions bilked buyers, FTC says
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

In the biggest crackdown yet on Internet auction fraud, federal and
state authorities, said they have taken legal action in 57 cases that bilked
thousands of consumers nationwide.


==========> 03-05-01-TheRegister-AppleiTunesProvidesDRM.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30521.html

Sugared water Apple censors Miles Davis
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 01/05/2003 at 21:51 GMT

The dismal little online music shop that Steve Jobs opened on Monday has
already received its share of lukewarm reviews. 

One reader, describing the paucity of music available, compared it to "an


==========> 03-05-01-Wired-CurrentMusicDownloadPricesTooHigh.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58684,00.html

Dollar Songs: Bargain or Rip-Off?  
By Joanna Glasner
02:00 AM May. 01, 2003 PT

SAN FRANCISCO -- When CEO Steve Jobs unveiled Apple Computer's 
new music-download service here this week, he
touted the introductory price of 99 cents per song as "pretty 
doggone close" to free. 


==========> 03-05-14-Apple-iTunesTopsTwoMillionDownloads.txt==========

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/may/14musicstore.html

iTunes Music Store Tops Two Million Song Downloads

CUPERTINO, CaliforniaMay 14, 2003Apple® today announced that over two million 
songs
have been purchased and downloaded from its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store 
since its debut
16 days ago. Continuing the trend set during the first week, over half of the 
songs purchased to date


==========> 03-05-19-TheRegister-RoxioBuysPressplayToRelaunchNapster.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30762.html

Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay 
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 19/05/2003 at 13:23 GMT

Roxio is to relaunch Napster, on the back of today's $39m cash and stock
acquisition of PressPlay, the download music service, from Sony and
Universal Music. 



==========> 03-05-20-SJMerc-PressplayDealToLetNapsterOperateAgain.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5902707.htm

Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2003
Pressplay deal would let Napster operate again
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

Two record companies that helped sue Napster into oblivion
announced a deal Monday that would let their one-time
nemesis rise again.


==========> 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersRhapsodyMusicService.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1010558.html?tag=fd_top

Real pushes lower-cost Rhapsody

By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 27, 2003, 9:00 PM PT

RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service 
MusicNet in favor of one from Listen.com's Rhapsody, which also plans to charge 


==========> 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1010558.html?tag=fd_top

Real pushes lower-cost Rhapsody
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 27, 2003, 9:00 PM PT

RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service 
MusicNet in favor of one from Listen.com's Rhapsody, which also plans to charge 
a new low of 79 cents per track to rip CDs.


==========> 03-05-28-SeattlePI-OnlineMusicServices.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/123890_onlinemusic28.html

Wednesday, May 28, 2003
RealNetworks tunes into online music sales
By DAN RICHMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Interested in creating a custom-made CD, with a wide choice of artists, for 
under $10? RealNetworks Inc. hopes so.



==========> 03-05-28-SeattlePI-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/123890_onlinemusic28.html

Wednesday, May 28, 2003
RealNetworks tunes into online music sales
By DAN RICHMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Interested in creating a custom-made CD, with a wide choice of artists, for 
under $10? RealNetworks Inc. hopes so.



==========> 03-05-30-ALA-VirginiaEnactsProtectionFromUCITA.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 47
May 30, 2003

In This Issue:
Good news regarding UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions
Act)!

The Governor of Vermont yesterday (May 29) signed HO 148 (UETA, the
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) into law. This bill included a


==========> 03-06-04-ComputerWorld-MassMayAdoptAntiUCITALaw.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,81812,00.html

Mass. could be fifth state to adopt anti-UCITA law
No action was taken, though, after a legislative hearing this week 
By PATRICK THIBODEAU 
JUNE 04, 2003

A Massachusetts legislative committee held a hearing this week on
an anti-UCITA bill, and the state could become the fifth to enact a
law whose sole purpose is to protect its residents and businesses


==========> 03-06-05-MSNBC-PearlJamLeavesRecordCoForInternet.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/921872.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1

The music biz in a Pearl Jam Internet road to independence:
Will the band’s exit from Epic  stampede the dinosaur labels?
                COMMENTARY
                    By Eric Olsen
              SPECIAL TO MSNBC.COM
               
               June 5   Bands come and go from record labels in
               a revolving door of euphoria and dejection, so


==========> 03-06-14-FreeToTinker-StatusOfStateSuperDMCALaws.txt==========

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html

Freedom to Tinker ... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, 
and modify the technological devices you own. 
State Super-DMCA Bills and Laws

Links: EFF's Super-DMCA page Short explanation of bills' 
drawbacks, suitable for non-experts (applies to original version of
bills): Word format; PDF Analysis of the Texas bill John Palfrey's 
Massachusetts testimony Michael Taylor's Massachusetts


==========> 03-06-19-BNA-CalCourt-LimitedDisclosureOfForumNotOK.txt==========

BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 06/19/2003

COURT RULES NO UNFAIRNESS IN DISCLOSING FORUM CHOICE BY LINK

BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports on Net2Phone
v. Los Angeles County Superior Court, a decision in which a
California state appeals court ruled that a consumer
contract containing a forum selection clause is not
unenforceable merely by reason of the fact that the forum
selection clause is disclosed to consumers via a hyperlink.


==========> 03-06-25-Herald-FloridaEnactsSuperDMCALaw.txt==========

BY ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@herald.com

TALLAHASSEE -Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law a low-profile measure Tuesday
that electronics manufacturers and consumer advocates warn could keep
people from recording television programs on their VCRs and from using
TiVo-like devices.

The law revises Florida's cable laws to include theft of any communication
service, such as broadband Internet access, and to increase criminal


==========> 03-08-2003-LATimes-DisneyMayDoDigitalDistributionAnyway.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5585187.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2003
Eisner: Disney is shifting its anti-piracy stance
Los Angeles Times

LAS VEGAS - Walt Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner
said Monday that his company won't let the threat of piracy keep it from
aggressively pursuing business strategies based
on new digital technologies, even if that means rethinking its current

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03-02-21-BBC-IsGoogleTooPowerful-BloggingIsNotJournalism.txt
03-02-21-InternetWeek-SomeSaySpamThreatensInternetViability.txt
03-02-21-SJMerc-AOLPlansToUseLegislationAndToolsToFightSpam.txt
03-02-27-PCWorld-PrivacyAndDataSecuritySummitFocussesOnSpam.txt
03-02-28-Computerworld-TETFCreatesAntiSpamResearchGroup-ARSG.txt
03-03-03-SJMerc-GovtPublicationRestrcitionsStallScientificRe.txt
03-03-03-SJMerc-SecurityRestrictingSciencePublicationAndTrav.txt
03-03-05-SJMerc-SupremeCourtLooksAtFilteringInUSvsALA.txt
03-03-06-CNETNews-AppealsCourtStrikesCOPA.txt
03-03-06-CNETNews-CourtRulingInCarafanoCDALibelThreatensISPs.txt
03-03-06-SJMerc-AOLBlocksOneBillionSpamEmailsIn24Hours.txt
03-03-06-SJMerc-Editorial-AppealsCourtStrikesCOPA.txt
03-03-06-SJMerc-SupremeCourtLooksAtFilteringInUSvsALA.txt
03-03-08-NewScientist-BayesianSpamFilter.txt
03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt
03-03-11-NYT-KaporQuitsBoardOfCompanyInvolvedWithTIA.txt
03-03-12-CNETNews-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt
03-03-13-ALA-S609RestoreFOIAWouldEliminateSomeExemptions.txt
03-03-13-SJMerc-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2.txt
03-03-13-USHouse-RepWaxman-P2PMakesPornographyAvailable.txt
03-03-13-WashPost-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt
03-03-14-CNETNews-TechCompaniesToWorkOnAntiSpamSpec.txt
03-03-17-CNN-IETF-AntiSpamResearchGroupMeets.txt
03-03-19-CNETNews-CDTProject-SimpleTechniquesCanStopMostSpam.txt
03-03-20-InfoWeek-IBMResearchersProposeCharityEmailFeeToStop.txt
03-03-22-SJMerc-IETF-ASRG-OrganizesToFightSpam.txt
03-03-24-EETimes-MailblockInternetServiceBlocksSpam.txt
03-03-24-SJMerc-DG-MailblockerSpamBlocksTermsIncludeSpam.txt
03-03-25-PCWorld-AppealsCourtUpholdsJunkFaxRestrictionLaw.txt
03-03-25-TheRegister-MSNLimitsEmailSendingToStopSpam.txt
03-03-27-Salon-TheDifficultyOfSpamBlocking.txt
03-03-28-CNETNews-ESRepsVoteToBanDecpetiveURLsAndVirtualPorn.txt
03-03-31-CNETNews-FreedomTechnologyAndTheInternet.txt
03-03-31-Provos-WebPagesMovedOffshore-MichSuperDMCA.txt
03-03-31-Salon-NetworkedWorldPosesManyThreatsToHumanity.txt
03-04-02-InternetNews-IndianaLegislaturePassesAntiSpamBill.txt
03-04-03-SJMerc-CASupremeCourtDividedOnIntelEmailCase.txt
03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpamActivistSuesOverSpamBlockingPatents.txt
03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpammerBuysChallengeResponsePatent.txt
03-04-06-SJMerc-DG-LibertiesWeHaveLost.txt
03-04-07-CNETNews-PornSpamPresentsLegalIssuesForEmployers.txt
03-04-08-WashPost-JudgeRulesAntiSpamWebsiteDoesn'tHarass.txt
03-04-09-Purdue-CERIAS-Roundtable-FreedomToTeach-FreedomToLe.txt
03-04-10-CNETNews-FedAntiSpamBillReintroduced.txt
03-04-10-MSNBC-SenBurnsAndWydenIntroduceCan-SpamBill.txt
03-04-10-SFGate-CFP03FocussesonCivilLibertiesIssues.txt
03-04-11-Harvard-Edelman-GoogleSafeSearchGreatlyOverblocks.txt
03-04-14-EFF-MPAA-StateSuperDMCALawsOpposed.txt
03-04-14-GAOReport-P2PProvideAccessToChildPornography.txt
03-04-14-SJMerc-DG-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt
03-04-14-Slashdot-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt
03-04-14-TheRegister-StateDMCALawsPreventAnonymousCommunicat.txt
03-04-15-BBC-AOLTriesLawsuitsToStopSpam.txt
03-04-15-WashPost-Spam-AOLSues-BillsIntroduced.txt
03-04-17-SJMec-WalMartShutsSiteProvidingBargainBarCodes.txt
03-04-17-SJMerc-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt
03-04-17-SJMerc-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubjects.txt
03-04-18-SJMerc-WashStateBillWouldProhibitViolentVideoGameSa.txt
03-04-18-WashPost-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubject.txt
03-04-23-PCWorld-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt
03-04-23-TheRegister-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt
03-04-24-InternetNews-EmailAvertisersAnnounceAnti-SpamPlan.txt
03-04-26-SJMerc-LessigLofgrenBill-BountyOnSpammers.txt
03-04-26-SpamHaus-ROKSO-DatabaseOfSpammers.txt
03-04-28-SJMerc-AOL-MS-YahooToFightSpamTogether.txt
03-04-29-FinTimes-ApproachesToStoppingSpam.txt
03-04-29-FTC-StudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt
03-04-29-SJMerc-FTCStudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt
03-04-29-Virginia-GovernorSignsToughestAntiSpamBill.txt
03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt
03-05-07-PCWorld-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt
03-05-07-SJMerc-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt
03-05-08-USAToday-TheSpamProblem.txt
03-05-13-WashPost-DraftAntiSpamBillCalledWeakAndVague.txt
03-05-15-CNETNews-AntiSpamPlan-IdentifyOpenRelays.txt
03-05-18-BostonGlobe-SeveralMethodsToStopSpam.txt
03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt
03-05-20-NYT-SpammersUseUnprotectedComputersToRoute.txt
03-05-21-Microsoft-GatesSuggestionsToControlSpam.txt
03-05-22-AP-WashStateBansViolentVideoGamesFoMinors.txt
03-05-22-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt
03-05-22-SJMerc-Spam-GovtAndIndustryEffortNeeded.txt
03-05-23-CNETNews-FedOptOutAntiSpamBillIntroduced.txt
03-05-23-SJMerc-CASenateBarelyPassesAntiSpamBill.txt
03-05-25-NYT-SeveralTechnicalAntiSpamProposals.txt
03-05-27-LATimes-USSpamFloodingEurope.txt
03-05-27-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt
03-06-06-WSJ-UtahAntiSpamLawResultsInManyLawsuits.txt
03-06-09-Reuters-KidsReceiveInappropriateSpam.txt
03-06-11-CNETNews-FTCProposesSweepingAntiSpamPowers.txt
03-06-15-AmSci-AllAboutSpam.txt
03-06-15-SJMerc-DG-TheFutureOfPublishning.txt
03-06-16-ComputerWorld-UseAIToStopSpam.txt
03-06-17-SJMerc-MS-SuesAllegedSpammers.txt
03-06-17-WashPost-TougherAntiSpamBillsIntroduced.txt
03-06-18-SJMerc-Spam-MSWantsItBothWays.txt
03-06-20-SJMerc-DG-OptOutSpamBillIsNoGood.txt
03-06-20-WashPost-CanSpamActGainsInSenate.txt
03-06-23-ALA-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt
03-06-23-NYT-SenateUnifiedInOppositionToSpam.txt
03-06-23-SJMerc-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt
03-06-24-SJMerc-SomeLibrariesToRejectFedGrants.txt
03-06-24-SJMerc-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt
03-06-25-CNETNews-MichPassesToughAntiSpamBill.txt
03-06-25-SJMerc-MSCreatesAntiSpamTaskForce.txt
03-06-30-SJMerc-OnLinePublicRecordsTooAccessible.txt




==========> 01-11-07-SJMerc-Yahoo.txt==========

Posted at 8:59 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 

         Judge says Yahoo is not subject to
         French ruling in Nazi
         memorabilia case
         BY MARY ANNE OSTROM
         Mercury News 

         In a decision protecting Internet free-speech rights, a San Jose 
federal judge


==========> 01-11-15-CNN-EU-Spam.txt==========

Europe waffles on spam; holds the cookies 

By Paul Meller

(IDG) -- A Europe-wide measure on direct marketing
via e-mail appeared less likely than ever to win approval Tuesday, as
the European Parliament failed to agree whether marketers should be
allowed to send unsolicited messages to potential customers.

"Neither side won this argument. A political


==========> 01-11-20-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

EU Moves To Ratify Cybercrime Terms, Penalties 

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
20 Nov 2001, 12:20 PM CST

Spurred by the passage of a global cybercrime treaty and the events of Sept. 
11, the European Union has working to fast-track a proposal that would 
harmonize definitions and penalties for a range computer crimes.



==========> 01-11-22-AP-FBI.txt==========

New Law Lets U.S. Nab Foreign Hackers

Updated: Thu, Nov 22 1:55 AM EST
By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The recently approved antiterrorism law could be used to 
prosecute foreign hackers, a move critics say could make the United States the 
world's Internet policeman. 

The new prosecutorial powers, which have no parallel in other nations, affect 


==========> 01-11-26-CNN-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

Europe: Cybercrime treaty not 'Big Brother'

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) --
A European treaty to combat the growing menace of cybercrime will give law 
enforcers broad international reach but will not be a "Big Brother" type 
agency, the Council of Europe (CoE) said Friday. 

"Contrary to what has been said in certain circles, we are not going to set up 
a 'Big Brother'," Guy de Vel, CoE's legal affairs director, told a news 
conference after 30 countries signed the new convention in Hungary's 


==========> 01-11-26-InfoWorld-SklyarovDMCA.txt==========

November 26, 2001 06:14 PM 

Judge sets appeal hearings in Sklyarov case 
By Sam Costello and Stephen Lawson 

BOSTON - THE case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, charged with
violating copyright law by writing software that strips copy and use 
restrictions out of
Adobe Systems Inc. e-books, crept forward Monday as dates were set next year for
a pair of hearings.


==========> 01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

Thirty Nations Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
26 Nov 2001, 10:04 AM CST

The United States and 29 other nations signed a treaty last Friday establishing 
common tools and rules for fighting Internet crime. 

On Nov. 23, foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan and South 


==========> 01-11-27-SJMerc-DG-China.txt==========

Posted at 8:00 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 

Chinese government of two minds on Net access
BY DAN GILLMOR
Mercury News 

BEIJING -- When the Chinese government announced recently that it was
shutting down more than 15,000 Internet cafes, it reinforced a widely held
perception that China's rulers remain implacably hostile to the open nature of
the Net.


==========> 01-11-27-SJMerc-DG-COPA.txt==========

Posted at 9:00 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 

Internet porn is still protected speech, justices should rule

This morning the U.S. Supreme Court will hear another challenge to the
federal government's attempt to sanitize words and pictures on the Internet.

Free speech should win again.

The case, Ashcroft vs. ACLU, deals with the rights of adult Web surfers to


==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-COPA.txt==========

Posted at 9:45 a.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 

Court ponders whether government went too far with Child Online Protection Act

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress cannot wall off part of the Internet just
because many Americans might think it contains material harmful to children, a
lawyer for operators of sexually explicit Web sites argued to the Supreme
Court on Wednesday.

There is no such thing as an objective nationwide standard to judge what is


==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-CorleyDeCSStxt.txt==========

Posted at 6:30 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 

Appeals court sides with Hollywood over posting of DVD hack

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In a resounding victory for Hollywood's major
studios Wednesday, a New York federal appeals court upheld a ruling
against a man who posted on his Web site a program that let users decrypt
and copy DVDs.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled unanimously in


==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-FeltenDMCASDMI.txt==========

Posted at 6:39 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 

Lawsuit by professor who challenged anti-piracy laws dismissed

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A Princeton University professor who feared
strong-arm legal tactics would stop him from telling the world how his
research hacked through digital security measures has lost in court.

Edward Felten sued the Recording Industry Association of America, charging
that the group used threats of lawsuits to stop him from presenting his work at


==========> 01-11-29-SJMerc-DG-CorleyFeltenDMCA.txt==========

Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2001

Anti-Liberty DMCA Upheld Again 

AP: Court upholds ban on DVD-cracking code. But Hollywood studios,
looking to protect their coveted content, disagreed. A lower court found
the harm to Hollywood outweighed the free speech protections and the
appeals court agreed.

AP: Lawsuit by professor who challenged anti-piracy laws dismissed.


==========> 01-12-03-AtNY-DeCSS-Felten.txt==========

AtNewYork
Back to 
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,,8471_932661,00.html
Entertainment Wins Rounds; Digital Copyright Fight Goes On
By Erin Joyce

Five years from now, when VHS-format video tapes have gone the way of 8-Track 
tapes and
researchers can't access encrypted material on DVDs for fair use of copyrighted 
work, public
outcry will force a narrowing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 


==========> 01-12-03-WSJ-EUCybercrime.txt==========

"Treaty on Cybercrime Flew Under the Radar Despite Potential Risks"
Wall Street Journal (12/03/01) P. B1; Weber, Thomas E. 

The Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime lists a wide range of online 
activities that could be construed as illegal, mandates real-time Internet data 
monitoring, and authorizes Net communications surveillance. The United States 
and over two dozen other countries have signed the accord. However, the 
document is open to interpretation, and high-tech companies, civil 
libertarians, and programmers have expressed concern. Companies are worried 
that addressing investigators' requests for surveillance and computer data will 


==========> 01-12-05-SJMerc-FranceYahoo.txt==========

Posted at 1:55 p.m. PST Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2001 

French groups appeal Yahoo's win in Nazi memorabilia case
SJ Mercury

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two French groups are appealing the recent federal 
court decision that held Yahoo! Inc. did not have to remove Nazi memorabilia 
from its site to comply with a ruling in France.

Attorneys for the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the Union of 


==========> 01-12-06-AtHome-EUDataBase.txt==========

EU Dispute Delays Data Protection Bill

Updated: Thu, Dec 06 4:37 PM EST
By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer 

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Plans to boost European Union data protection laws 
were under threat of unraveling Thursday as a dispute between EU governments 
and the European Parliament over how to regulate unsolicited e-mails remained 
unresolved. 



==========> 02-01-04-SJMerc-SPAM.txt==========

Posted at 10:02 p.m. PST Friday, Jan. 4, 2002 

`Anti-spam' law upheld by court
Reuters 

A California appeals court has upheld a state ``anti-spam'' law protecting 
consumers from junk e-mail. Activists hailed the decision Friday as an 
important step toward regulating commercial pitches made through the Internet.

In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the state appeals court said 


==========> 02-01-04-WashPost-NationalBorders.txt==========

Rise of Internet 'Borders' Prompts Fears for Web's Future 

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 4, 2002; Page E01 

It is the modern-day equivalent of a border sentry. When visitors try to enter 
UKBetting.com, a computer program checks their identification to determine 
where they're dialing in from. Most people are waved on through. Those from the 
United States, China, Italy and other countries where gambling laws are muddy, 


==========> 02-01-07-ACMUbiquity-SethJohnson-MSXP.txt==========

         Freedom to Think and Speak
                    By Seth Johnson

Under Microsoft's Digital Rights Management operating system, the ability to 
use information freely will be policed at the most intricate level.

In his November 6 essay "You're Free to Think," 
(http://davenet.userland.com/2001/11/06/youreFreeToThink), Dave Winer comments 
that whatever else happens in the ongoing, increasing trend towards policing of 
the public's right to use information and information technology, we are still 


==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-Bernstein.txt==========

Prof Renews Free Speech Fight Against US Encryption Law 
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
08 Jan 2002, 5:28 PM CST

A computer science professor is renewing a constitutional challenge to U.S. 
encryption laws, arguing that the government's policy on restricting the export 
of domestic cryptographic research violates the First Amendment. 

Daniel Bernstein, the University of Illinois computer science professor who 


==========> 02-01-12-SJMerc-SpamLaws.txt==========

Posted at 5:56 p.m. PST Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002 

Fed up with unsolicited e-mail, computer users go to court

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ellen Spertus was outraged when Kozmo.com still
sent her e-mail after she declined such pitches. So she sued the online retailer
under California's 1998 anti-spam law.

Spertus is among a handful of individuals who have chosen to fight unsolicited
e-mail in court. They've had mixed success so far in what many consider only


==========> 02-01-14-WashPost-2600-DeCSS.txt==========

2600 Magazine Seeks Another Opinion In N.Y. DeCSS Case 
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.,
14 Jan 2002, 5:14 PM CST

Lawyers for the New York-based "hacker quarterly" 2600 magazine have asked that 
the full 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider a decision by three of its 
judges to uphold a ban on publishing software code that can unlock encrypted 
video on DVDs. 



==========> 02-01-18-SJMerc-China.txt==========

Posted at 5:39 p.m. PST Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 

China orders Internet providers to screen e-mail, use less foreign software

BEIJING (AP) -- China has issued its most intrusive Internet controls to date,
ordering service providers to screen private e-mail for political content and
holding them responsible for subversive postings on their Web sites.

The new rules, posted earlier this week on the Web site of the Ministry of
Information Industry, represent Beijing's latest efforts to tighten its grip on 


==========> 02-01-30-Reuters-Corley-DMCA.txt==========

Wednesday January 30 4:28 PM ET 

DVD Hacker Vows to Keep Challenging Ruling
By Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eric Corley, the central figure in the ``DVD Hacker'' 
case who was barred by a court from posting online how to make copies of DVDs, 
vowed on Wednesday to keep fighting the copyright law the ruling was based on, 
and which he says oppresses more and more people each day.



==========> 02-02-07-NYState-AGSuesCompAssoc.txt==========

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/feb/feb07a_02.html

Department of Law
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271
February 7, 2002

SPITZER SUES SOFTWARE DEVELOPER TO PROTECT CONSUMERS' FREE SPEECH RIGHTS

  Public's Ability to Criticize Product at Issue


==========> 02-02-07-SJMerc-McAfeeLicense.txt==========

Posted at 12:04 p.m. PST Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002 

New York AG sues Network
Associates in free speech case

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York state has sued the maker of McAfee
antivirus software alleging it is restricting free speech by barring customers
from publishing product reviews without its consent, Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer announced Thursday.



==========> 02-02-12-WashPost-FTC-AntiSpam.txt==========

FTC To Announce Crackdown On Spam 
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
12 Feb 2002, 9:00 AM CST

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce today a "three-point" 
crackdown on deceptive and misleading junk e-mail, also known as "spam." 

The anti-spam campaign would mark the first time the consumer agency has 
specifically targeted spam as the focus of a law enforcement investigation, 


==========> 02-02-14-CHE-Destroy-USGS-CDs.txt==========

An Order to Destroy a CD-ROM Raises Concerns Among University Librarians
                by ALEX P. KELLOGG --C.H.E.
College librarians who were forced by the federal government to destroy copies
of a CD-ROM put out by the United States Geological Survey say destruction of
the disks raises concerns about intellectual freedom. The government said the
CD's, which compiled information on water supplies, posed a security risk in
the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In October the government ordered 335 libraries holding copies of the CD-ROM
destroy them. The majority of the libraries were on college campuses, in law
schools, and at community colleges.


==========> 02-03-20-SJMerc-ChildPorn.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2901404.htm

Posted on Wed, Mar. 20, 2002
Larry Magid: Net users can help fight child porn
By Larry Magid
Special to the Mercury News

  The FBI announced Monday that it had charged dozens of people for using 
computers and the Internet to distribute child pornography. Those caught in the 
sweep, called ``Operation Candyman,'' allegedly used e-mail and the Web to 


==========> 02-03-21-CNETNews-StepsAgainstSpam.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html

Companies taking desperate steps against spam
By Stefanie Olsen 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 21, 2002, 4:00 AM PT
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html 
 
Spam flood forces companies to take desperate measures 



==========> 02-03-21-SJMerc-Google-Scientology.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2910195.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 21, 2002
Google pulls, replaces Web page critical of Scientology

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. restored a Web site critical of the 
Church of Scientology on its Internet search engine Thursday while free speech 
advocates slammed the company for removing the site in the first place.

  Google said the company had only removed certain pages from the site because 


==========> 02-03-24-SJMerc-CIPAt.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/2929639.htm

Posted on Sun, Mar. 24, 2002
Librarians fighting Internet-filter law
SOFTWARE BLOCKS PORNOGRAPHY BUT CENSORS VALUABLE INFORMATION, PLAINTIFFS SAY
By John Loviglio
Associated Press

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A battle over free speech and online pornography returns 
to the nation's birthplace today as librarians try to convince a federal court 


==========> 02-03-26-SJMerc-CIPA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2936807.htm

Posted on Tue, Mar. 26, 2002
Librarians testify against Web-filter requirement
A special panel of judges is hearing two groups' challenge to a federal law 
that would link funding to use of the software.
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer

  This was an incident that seemed to illustrate perfectly the need for the 


==========> 02-03-26-Wired-CIPA.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,51312,00.html

Porn-Filter Trial Gets Raunchy 
By Declan McCullagh 
2:00 a.m. March 26, 2002 PST 

PHILADELPHIA -- Raunchy depictions of explicit sex punctuated a trial over 
library filtering on Monday when government attorneys argued the images were 
unsuitable for display on public terminals. 



==========> 02-03-27-CNN-CIPA-Trial.txt==========

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/27/internet.porn.reut/

Porn trial experts say software block limited

           PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
           (Reuters) -- Filtering software
           intended to protect children from
           exposure to pornography on library
           computers is doomed to fail despite
           its congressional endorsement as a


==========> 02-03-28-SJMerc-CIPA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2954272.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 28, 2002
U.S. government mounts defense of library porn law

  PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. government sought on Thursday to defend its 
bid to protect children from online pornography in public libraries, with 
testimony about Internet software that allows library patrons to view explicit 
text but not photos on the World Wide Web.



==========> 02-04-03-SJMerc-PoliticalSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2994127.htm

Posted on Wed, Apr. 03, 2002
Use of spam in political campaign spurs debate
By Dion Nissenbaum
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau

  SACRAMENTO - First, glossy political hit pieces were stuffed in mail boxes. 
Then came programmed pre-recorded phone messages from candidates at all hours 


==========> 02-04-11-PCWorld-BillRequireKidSafeDomain.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,93964,00.asp

Kid-Safe Domain Nears Reality
Legislation is no substitute for parental monitoring of dot-com kids, some 
critics say.
Anne M. Ju, Medill News Service
Thursday, April 11, 2002

A bill that calls for a child-friendly Web domain has been unanimously approved 
by committee and goes next to the full House, where it faces some concern that 


==========> 02-04-16-SJMerc-SupremeCourtStrikesVirtualChildPronBan.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3075114.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 16, 2002
Supreme Court strikes down ban on virtual child pornography

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court struck down a congressional ban on 
virtual child pornography Tuesday, ruling that the First Amendment protects 
pornography or other sexual images that only appear to depict real children 
engaged in sex.



==========> 02-04-18-CSMonitor-WarOnSpam.txt==========

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0418/p01s01-ussc.html

from the April 18, 2002 edition - 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0418/p01s01-ussc.html 
War on e-mail spam ratchets up in courts, legislatures
In-box junk mail: Is it free speech, or a threat to viability of the Internet?
By Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 

NEW YORK - Log on in the morning, and bam! There it is: spam – the bane of the 
electronic age, dozens of unsolicited commercial pitches for everything from 


==========> 02-04-20-SJMerc-SpamOverview.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3108519.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 20, 2002
E-mail users plagued by rising tide of junk
By Mary Anne Ostrom and Mike Langberg
Mercury News

  Susan Guberman-Garcia dreads retrieving her e-mail. Every day, she wades 
through unsolicited messages pitching online gambling, get-rich schemes and sex 
sites.


==========> 02-04-20-SJMerc-WeakAnti-SpamLaws.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3107707.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 20, 2002
Weak anti-spam laws make fighting back hard
BAY AREA MAN WINS COURT FIGHT OVER PERSISTENT SPAMMER
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

  Everyone says they're getting more spam. But weak anti-spam laws and 
determined e-mailers make it hard to fight back on legal grounds.


==========> 02-05-03-EFF-Google-Scientology.txt==========

May 3, 2002
EFF Thanks Google

In early March, popular search engine company Google proved its commitment to 
its users by opting to provide information about attempts at censorship to 
EFF's Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.

The Church of Scientology (CoS) threatened Google with a lawsuit, citing 
violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), because certain 
Google searches provided links to a site that opposes CoS. Operation Clambake 


==========> 02-05-04-SJMerc-DMCA-ISPs-SpeechPolice.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3200100.htm

Posted on Sat, May. 04, 2002
Legal protection turns service providers into speech police

  NEW YORK (AP) - A 1998 federal law meant to combat digital piracy is 
increasingly being used to challenge free speech online as well.

  In one recent case, the search engine Google removed links to a Norwegian 
site that criticizes the Church of Scientology International after the 


==========> 02-05-08-SJMerc-ElcomSoft-DMCA-ConstitutionallyOK.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3225820.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 08, 2002
Judge rules copyright law constitutional
By Jennifer Files
Mercury News

  A federal judge in San Jose ruled Wednesday that a controversial digital 
copyright law is constitutional, allowing a criminal case against Russian 
software vendor ElcomSoft to proceed.


==========> 02-05-15-SJMerc-ProtectingChildren.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3270972.
htm

Posted on Wed, May. 15, 2002
Larry Magid: Words for Congress about protecting kids online
By Larry Magid
Special to the Mercury News

  A week from today, I'll be on Capitol Hill talking about Internet safety 
before some members of Congress and staff. The event is sponsored by the 


==========> 02-05-22-Wired-DotKidsDotUS.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52709,00.html

Dot-Kids Heads a Mess of Regs 
By Declan McCullagh 
2:00 a.m. May 22, 2002 PDT 

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Congress, racing to leave town before the Memorial Day 
recess, is focusing on Internet regulation like never before. 

Politicians are scrambling to debate a raft of technology regulations, ranging 


==========> 02-05-27-NYT-OnlineJurisdiction.txt==========

May 27, 2002
A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction
By CARL S. KAPLAN

Two years ago, when Stanley Young, a Virginia prison warden, learned
that two Connecticut newspapers had written stories about his prison's
treatment of inmates from that state, he went to read the four articles
on the Internet. He did not much like what he saw.

"I was a lot angry," recalled Mr. Young, head of Wallens Ridge State


==========> 02-05-28-EPIC-NYSuesSpammerMonsterHut.txt==========

http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/5_02_release.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 
FBI's CARNIVORE SYSTEM DISRUPTED ANTI-TERROR INVESTIGATION 

  INTERNAL MEMO CALLS OVER-COLLECTION OF DATA PART OF "PATTERN" SHOWING 
"INABILITY OF THE FBI TO MANAGE" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE WIRETAPS

WASHINGTON, DC -- An FBI anti-terrorism investigation possibly involving Usama 


==========> 02-05-31-SJMerc-CIPARuledUnconstitutional.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3373419.htm

Posted on Fri, May. 31, 2002
Federal judges throw out law requiring filtering software at libraries

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Public libraries cannot be forced to use Internet filters 
designed to block pornography, three federal judges said Friday in overturning 
a new federal law.

  In a 195-page decision, the judges said the Children's Internet Protection 


==========> 02-06-01-SJMerc-DG-CIPAOverturned.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3381419.htm

Posted on Sat, Jun. 01, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Three judges stand up for First Amendment
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal 
(www.dangillmor.com): 



==========> 02-06-03-ChillingEffects-ClearinghouseWebsite.txt==========

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Chilling Effects
Clearinghouse

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Harvard, Stanford,
Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and
University of Maine law school clinics.



==========> 02-06-04-ALA-NTIASeeksComments-ProtectingChildren.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 46
June 4, 2002

In This Issue: NTIA Invites Comments Evaluating Effectiveness of
Technology and Policies Protecting Children's Safety on the
Internet

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) has initiated a notice and


==========> 02-06-10-ZDNet-SimonsFeltenStanfordPPClass.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-934602.html

        This story was printed from ZDNN,
        located at 
		http://zdnet.com.com/2001-11-0.

Software programmers hit the law books
By Lisa M. Bowman 
Special to ZDNet News
June 10, 2002, 10:10 AM PT
URL: 
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-934602.html 


==========> 02-08-05-SJMerc-ChinaJailsNetUser.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3803541.htm

  Posted on Mon, Aug. 05, 2002
  China jails politically incorrect Net user 11 yrs

  HONG KONG, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Chinese government has sentenced a former 
policeman to jail for eleven years for downloading ``anti-revolutionary'' 
materials from the Internet, a human rights group in Hong Kong said on Monday.

  Li Dawei, 40, was the first person found guilty of subversion for downloading 


==========> 02-08-16-Felten-SpamCopCausesISPToShutDownWebsite.txt==========

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000014.html#000014

Freedom To Tinker
... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the 
technological devices you own. 
August 16, 2002
Keystone SpamKops 

Earlier this week, my ISP shut off this site, because the site had appeared on 
a list of "spammers" published by an outfit called SpamCop.


==========> 02-08-20-SJMerc-DG-SpamIssues.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3904852.htm

Posted on Tue, Aug. 20, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Spam fighters shouldn't tread on the innocent
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  Sometimes adjectives go naturally with subjects. One such case is 
``unscrupulous spammers'' -- a near-redundancy if I've ever seen one.



==========> 02-09-03-SJMerc-ChinaBlocksGoogle.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3992823.htm

Posted on Tue, Sep. 03, 2002
China blocks Google search engine

  BEIJING (AP) - China has blocked access to popular U.S. Internet search 
engine Google amid government calls to tighten media controls ahead of a major 
Communist Party congress.

  Attempts to look at the site through Chinese Internet services on Tuesday 


==========> 02-09-16-CIOInsight-Lessig-P2PandSpamVigilantes.txt==========

http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,3668,a=31039,00.asp

September 16, 2002
A Bounty on Spammers
By Lawrence Lessig 

  According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, a vigilante is "a member of a 
volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when 
the processes of law appear inadequate)." He or she is "a self-appointed doer 
of justice."


==========> 02-09-19-CNETNews-SorkinInterview-IP-Privacy-DeepLinking-Spa.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-958576.html

A cybersage speaks his mind
By Paul Festa 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 19, 2002, 12:00 PM PT

For a law professor specializing in the Internet, David Sorkin takes a pretty 
dim view of cyberlaw. 



==========> 02-11-02-NYT-FCCToConsiderRelaxingMediaOwnshipshipRestrictio.txt==========

New York Times
Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices
By JIM RUTENBERG
November 2, 2002

For decades, public interest advocates have successfully argued for
stringent limits on the number of newspapers, radio stations and television
outlets that a company can own.

They have summoned images of Citizen Kane, or worse, Big Brother, warning


==========> 02-11-12-SJMerc-SupremeCourtToRuleOnLibraryFilters-CIPA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4505381.htm

Posted on Tue, Nov. 12, 2002
High court agrees to rule on library Web filters
By Elise Ackerman
Mercury News

  The latest epic legal battle over free speech on the Internet took a major 
step toward resolution Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a 
challenge to a law requiring public libraries to filter Web content or lose 


==========> 02-11-13-SJMerc-FTCSuesSixForDecpetiveSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4511689.htm

Posted on Wed, Nov. 13, 2002
U.S. FTC sues six in ``spam'' e-mail round-up

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that 
it had sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with illegal 
pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail filters that actually attracted 
more ``spam.''



==========> 02-11-15-CIOMagazine-Spam-ITandHR-Issues.txt==========

http://www.cio.com/archive/111502/et_article.html

Nov. 15, 2002
Seething over Spam 
New tools and legislation can helpbut nothing can stop it all
BY MERIDITH LEVINSON 

IT WAS SPAM OVERLOAD. Inboxes at a certain Fortune 50
energy company were packed with unsolicited e-mail,
making it difficult for users to find important messages.


==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesKidsDomainAndWebcastingRoyal.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4530132.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002
Congress Creates Kids' Internet Area
DAVID HO
Associated Press

  WASHINGTON - Congress approved legislation Friday to create a safe haven on 
the Internet for children, where parents can be assured Web sites are free of 
pornography and other material not suitable for youngsters.


==========> 02-11-16-SJMerc-WaysToStopSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4534594.htm

Posted on Sat, Nov. 16, 2002
If we work together, we can win the spam battle
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

  Only you can prevent spam fires.

  I'm putting on my park ranger hat and appearing today as Spammy the Bear to 


==========> 02-11-26-CNETNews-FTCsSpamBlacklistServiceBlocksLegitimateEm.txt==========

CNET
Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 26, 2002, 5:22 PM PT

When Josh Tinnin tried to send e-mail to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
this month, he received an unwelcome surprise: He couldn't.

Tinnin's message to the FTC bounced back because the agency subscribes to a


==========> 02-12-04-ALA-AccessToGovtDocsThreatened.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 98
December 4, 2002

In This Issue: URGENT! Comments Needed by December 13th on OMB's
Proposed Amendments to the FAR That Threaten Public Access and the
Federal Depository Library Program.

BACKGROUND:
Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. of the Office of Management and Budget


==========> 02-12-05-NewScientist-SmartEmailAddressesCouldStopSpam.txt==========

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993152

Smart email addresses could slice spam 
16:58 05 December 02
Will Knight
 
Software that generates a unique email address for every message sent could 
help cut down spam, a US computer scientist believes. 

This is because hidden in the address are encrypted rules determining who is 


==========> 02-12-06-SJMerc-SpammerGetsSnailMailSpammed.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4677963.htm

Posted on Fri, Dec. 06, 2002
Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out
BY MIKE WENDLAND
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky , who just may be the
world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own
medicine.


==========> 02-12-10-SJMerc-PornFiltersBlockSomeHealthSites.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4709282.htm

Posted on Tue, Dec. 10, 2002
Report: Anti-pornography filters can block some health sites

WASHINGTON (AP) - Different ways that schools, libraries and
parents apply filtering software to block pornographic Web sites
determine whether these programs interfere with people looking up
health subjects on the Internet, according to a new study by health
researchers.


==========> 02-12-10-Wired-PrposalForRecipientsToChargeSpammers.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56788,00.html

New Plan for Spammers: Charge 'Em  
By Justin Jaffe 
09:59 AM Dec. 10, 2002 PT

Imagine if you could charge people for wasting your time. An IBM researcher has 
hatched 
a plan to make it possible. 



==========> 02-12-11-MSNBC-SpamAndVirusesIncreasingProblem.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/846241.asp?0si=&cp1=1

Antivirus firm annual report paints bleak picture
By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC

Dec. 11  Some time next year, there will be more
spam than real e-mail floating around the
Internet. That’s the conclusion drawn from
annual statistics gathered by British e-mail


==========> 02-12-11-SJMerc-DG-AustralianCourtSaysOKToLibelSuitThere.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4719322.htm

Posted on Wed, Dec. 11, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Australian court's upside-down Internet ruling
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

The judges of the High Court of Australia must be some of the most
obtuse people on the planet.



==========> 02-12-16-FinancialTimes-LocalLawsChallengeInternet.txt==========

http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=021216000425

COMMENT & ANAL YSIS: Material published on the internet and thus
accessible anywhere in the world is increasingly being challenged under the 
laws of
By Patti Waldmeir
Financial Times; Dec 16, 2002

When an Australian court ruled last week that Australian law could be used to
protect the rights of an Australian businessman living in Australia, cyberspace


==========> 02-12-19-WashPost-BloggingExposuresAuthorsToProblems.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9204-2002Dec18.html

Free Speech -- Virtually 
Legal Constraints on Web Journals Surprise Many 'Bloggers' 
By Jennifer Balderama
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 19, 2002; Page E01 

Late last year, John Stanforth posted to his personal Web site 
a reminiscence about software he had developed for internal


==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt==========

Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues
By TechNews.com Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM

In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out
with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock
performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks
and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech
business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes


==========> 03-01-00-ColumbiaJournalismRev-DG-InteractiveJournalism.txt==========

HERE COMES 'WE MEDIA'

Tech-Savvy Readers Want In on the Conversation
              BY DAN GILLMOR

In 1999, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the journal widely
followed in national security circles, wondered whether it was
on the right track with an article about computer security and
cyberterrorism. The editors went straight to some experts 
the denizens of Slashdot, a tech-oriented Web site  and


==========> 03-01-06-DaveWiner-Weblogs.txt==========

http://davenet.userland.com/2003/01/06/firstEssayOfTheYear

First essay of the year
Mon, Jan 6, 2003; by Dave Winer. 

First essay of the year 

I still owe you an essay to kick off the new
year.



==========> 03-01-07-Expatica-YahooCEOToEscapeFrenchPunishment.txt==========

http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=27831

Yahoo! boss to escape Paris sentence

 PARIS, Jan 7 (AFP) - The prosecutor in the Paris trial of former Yahoo!
 boss Timothy Koogle, accused of illegally selling Nazi memorabilia
 on-line through the US Internet company's auction site, called on Tuesday
 for no punishment to be levied in case of a conviction. 

 "The situation is regularised and nobody has come here to say that


==========> 03-01-08-CNETNews-Congress-DMCAChanges-Spam.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979623.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

Congress to take on spam, copyright 
    By Declan McCullagh 
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    January 8, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

    news analysis When the 107th Congress ended its work last November, 
politicians
    discarded dozens of technology-related bills that had been briefly 


==========> 03-01-12-USAToday-TheSpamProblem.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-01-12-spam_x.htm

Posted 1/12/2003 10:55 PM     Updated 1/13/2003 9:08 AM 
Spam? No thanks, we're full 
By Janet Kornblum USA TODAY

FREE mortgage quotes! Cheap printer cartridges! Free passes to thousands of XXX 
sites! "URGENT &
CONFIDENTIAL!"



==========> 03-01-14-SJMerc-SpamAssassanDevelpersTakeCalmApproach.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4943148.htm

Posted on Tue, Jan. 14, 2003
Mike Cassidy: Cool head helps in battle against spam
By Mike Cassidy
Mercury News

My favorite part of the recent news story about Network Associates
buying SpamAssassin was the nugget about how five engineers in San
Mateo developed the spam-stopping software.


==========> 03-01-15-Wired-HackersConveneToFightSpam.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57190,00.html

Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue?  
By Justin Jaffe  
02:00 AM Jan. 15, 2003 PT

Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday 
to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for
the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent. 



==========> 03-01-17-SJMerc-MITHackersConfTakesAimAtSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4973610.htm

Posted on Fri, Jan. 17, 2003
MIT conference takes aim at spam
By THEO EMERY
Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass - It's going to take the best and the brightest to
slam the spammers.



==========> 03-01-18-NYT-NYCourtRulesAgainstSoftwareReviewPolicy.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/18/business/18SOFT.html
?ex=1043914789&ei=1&en=ff4d9301bb3d6409

Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy
New York Times
January 18, 2003
By MATT RICHTEL

A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular
antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy


==========> 03-01-21-SJMerc-DG-ProvidersMightControlInternetContent.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5002309.htm

Posted on Tue, Jan. 21, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Internet content in peril in non-competitive world
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

As competition bogs down for high-speed Internet access in the United
States, prices are rising. This helps explain why it costs much more for
people here to subscribe to cable-modem or digital subscriber line


==========> 03-01-30-CNETNews-BlogsAidSWDevelopers.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982854.html

Blogs open doors for developers 
By David Becker 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 31, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

Secrecy has long been a hallmark of the software development process: Let too
many people know too much about what you're working on too early, and
somebody might steal your ideas. 


==========> 03-01-30-Guardian-BloggingBecomesMoreBusinessLike.txt==========

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884658,00.html

New biz on the blog 
As business begins to cash in on weblogs, Jim
McClellan reports on those creating bucks and buzz
from the online craze 
Thursday January 30, 2003
The Guardian 

If recent rumours are to be believed, AOL is getting ready to add


==========> 03-02-03-SJMerc-LawsuitsFlyReContentCleaningSoftware.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5094390.htm

Posted on Mon, Feb. 03, 2003
Content-Cleaning Software Angers Some
GARY GENTILE
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Last June, Utah software developer Breck Rice met
with movie directors to pitch new software for letting consumers digitally
alter Hollywood hits.


==========> 03-02-05-Gulker-TheImportanceOfBlogs.txt==========

http://www.gulker.com/2003/02/05.html#a834

Doc Searls responding to something I wrote in December, initially in
response to a post on Azeem Azhar's blog, when I was trying to see if there was
anything to learn from Weblog referrer data:

Doc writes:

"Anyway, I don't think "celebrity," "popularity," "traffic," "audience" and 
"power


==========> 03-02-05-HillNews-CongressCommUnveilTechPriorities.txt==========

http://www.hillnews.com/news/020503/priorities.aspx

House and Senate committees unveil high-tech priorities
By Jeff Dufour 

As the 108th Congress picks up steam, the House and Senate committees
responsible for telecommunications and technology issues have revealed their top
priorities for the coming year.

"We will have an ambitious telecom agenda" this year, said Ken Johnson,


==========> 03-02-07-SJMerc-OnLineGamesPlaceForProtestAndActivism.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5130967.htm

Posted on Fri, Feb. 07, 2003
Online games increasingly a place for protest, social activism

NEW YORK (AP) - Gone are the days when playing video games
online meant simply playing a hand of poker or battling your buddies to
the death in a giant arena you couldn't control.

Many games are now all about role-playing, and some players aren't


==========> 03-02-09-NYT-RapidlyGrowingTideOfSpam.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09SPAM.html 

"Tangled Up in Spam"
New York Times Magazine (02/09/03) P. 42; Gleick, James 

The rapidly growing tide of junk email, or spam, is inundating ISPs, infringing
on email users' privacy, and eroding people's trust in the Internet, and thus 
far
efforts to control it through grass-roots activism, spam filtering software, and
legislation have been ineffective. Spammers have been aided by the email


==========> 03-02-12-Microsoft-MSN-StoppingSpam.txt==========

http://www.microsoft.com/issues/essays/2003/02-12spam.asp

Spiking The Spammers
Curbing junk e-mail will take industry collaboration, new laws and continuing 
advances
in technology
Posted February 12, 2003

The Internet is an amazing breakthrough in
communications, but it has produced an irritating side


==========> 03-02-16-SJMerc-DG-GoogleBuysBloggerFirmPyra.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5195814.htm

Posted on Sun, Feb. 16, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Google buys Pyra in big boost for blogging
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

Weblogs are going Googling.

Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra


==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt==========

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html

Congress Preps Tech Agenda
  Monday, February 17, 2003
  By Liza Porteus

  WASHINGTON  U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech
  agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of
  the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy,
  privacy and security, among other issues.


==========> 03-02-18-LATimes-CalifBillWouldBanSpam.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-spam18feb18001440,1,104460.story

"Bill Would Ban Spam E-Mail in California"
Los Angeles Times (02/18/03) P. B1; Vogel, Nancy 

California Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Ray) has authored a bill that would
make it illegal to send spam email from California or to a California-based
email address, a crime punishable by a maximum fine of $500. However,
experts such as Jupiter Research's Jared Blank doubt that legislation will curb
the growth of unsolicited commercial email. "Somebody sitting in China


==========> 03-02-19-CNETNews-IPAddressSharingBlocksLegitimateWebSites.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985216.html

Net blocking threatens legitimate sites 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 19, 2003, 5:36 PM PT

Government efforts to block offensive Web sites are technically problematic and
legally worrisome, a new study says. 



==========> 03-02-20-SJMerc-CDTChallengesPennLawBlockingWebsiteAccess.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5222575.htm

Posted on Thu, Feb. 20, 2003
Civil liberties group opposes Internet blocking law

WASHINGTON (AP) - A pioneering strategy to stem online child
pornography is threatening Internet stability because it blocks Web
surfers visiting innocent sites located in the same virtual neighborhoods as
those peddling illegal porn, a prominent civil liberties group says.



==========> 03-02-21-BBC-IsGoogleTooPowerful-BloggingIsNotJournalism.txt==========

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2786761.stm

Last Updated:  Friday, 21 February, 2003, 11:43 GMT  

Is Google too powerful?
Is it time to set up Ofsearch, a regulator of search engines asks
technology consultant Bill Thompson 

Everyone's favourite search engine now
owns the world's most popular


==========> 03-02-21-InternetWeek-SomeSaySpamThreatensInternetViability.txt==========

http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6400881

ISP Chief: Spam Is 'A Thousand Times More
Horrible Than You Can Imagine' 
By Mitch Wagner 

Go on. Ask Barry Shein about spam. But be
prepared for an earful. 

Shein is president of The World, a small,


==========> 03-02-21-SJMerc-AOLPlansToUseLegislationAndToolsToFightSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5231500.htm

Posted on Fri, Feb. 21, 2003
AOL plans new assault on spam
Reuters

NEW YORK - America Online on Thursday said it would form a task
force and seek tougher legislation against spammers to bolster its efforts
to cut the barrage of unsolicited junk e-mail.



==========> 03-02-27-PCWorld-PrivacyAndDataSecuritySummitFocussesOnSpam.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109595,00.asp

It's Open Season on Spammers
Techies, attorneys, government officials team to tackle spam.
Andrew Brandt, PCWorld.com
Thursday, February 27, 2003

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The problem of spam--how to get rid of it, how to track 
down the
senders, and whether to prosecute those spammers--has dominated many 


==========> 03-02-28-Computerworld-TETFCreatesAntiSpamResearchGroup-ARSG.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,789
38,00.html

IETF creates antispam research group
By TODD R. WEISS 
FEBRUARY 28, 2003
Source: Computerworld

As spam problems worsen for businesses and consumers, the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) is going on the offensive by creating a


==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-GovtPublicationRestrcitionsStallScientificRe.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5304602.htm

Posted on Mon, Mar. 03, 2003
Demand for government review stalls research project
By Glennda Chui
Mercury News

Neuroscientist Bruno Olshausen has been waiting nearly a year to launch
a study of how the brain recognizes objects against a cluttered
background -- one with potential applications for baggage screening at


==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-SecurityRestrictingSciencePublicationAndTrav.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5304603.htm

Posted on Mon, Mar. 03, 2003
Security concerns may be shackling science
By Glennda Chui
Mercury News

Russian scientists are invited to the United States for meetings aimed at
stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, only to find they can't get past
the border. Foreign researchers are yanked from some federal labs.


==========> 03-03-05-SJMerc-SupremeCourtLooksAtFilteringInUSvsALA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5321221.htm

Posted on Wed, Mar. 05, 2003
Supreme Court looks at free speech and library Net filters

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pornography is everywhere on the Internet,
some of it free for the peeking to anyone with an Internet connection and
a bit of online know-how.

Right alongside the smut is more valuable information than anyone could


==========> 03-03-06-CNETNews-AppealsCourtStrikesCOPA.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-991477.html?tag=fd_top

Appeals court strikes down Net porn law 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 6, 2003, 6:07 PM PT

WASHINGTON--A federal law aimed at curbing Internet pornography violates
Americans' free speech rights and is unconstitutional, an appeals court ruled
Thursday. 


==========> 03-03-06-CNETNews-CourtRulingInCarafanoCDALibelThreatensISPs.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2009-1023-991264.html

Ruling could threaten long-standing content protections 
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 6, 2003, 4:00AM PT 

A controversial case before a federal appeals court could significantly restrict
legal protections that have long absolved Internet companies from
responsibility for their customers' actions.


==========> 03-03-06-SJMerc-AOLBlocksOneBillionSpamEmailsIn24Hours.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329381.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2003
AOL blocks a billion spam e-mails in 24 hours

NEW YORK (AP) - In a single 24-hour period on Monday and
Tuesday, America Online says it trashed a billion e-mails offering
mortgages and organ enhancement, instead of letting them slip into
customers' inboxes.



==========> 03-03-06-SJMerc-Editorial-AppealsCourtStrikesCOPA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5335896.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2003
Court strikes down law intended to keep kids from online porn

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - For the second time, a federal appeals court
has ruled that a law meant to keep Internet pornography away from
children is unconstitutional.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday the Child Online


==========> 03-03-06-SJMerc-SupremeCourtLooksAtFilteringInUSvsALA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329512.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2003
Court hears library Net filtering arguments
By Stephen Henderson
Knight Ridder

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has already struck down two
laws aimed at protecting young eyes from smut on the Internet. But in
arguments before the court Wednesday, several justices indicated they


==========> 03-03-08-NewScientist-BayesianSpamFilter.txt==========

"Spambusters"
New Scientist (03/08/03) Vol. 177, No. 2385, P. 42; Schechter, Bruce 

Hackers despise junk email, or spam, with a vengeance, and programmer
Paul Graham explains that this hatred stems from bruised egos. In the hopes
of mobilizing hackers to combat spam, Graham issued "A Plan for Spam," an
outline for a spam filter that is 99 percent effective. Rather than focus on 
spam
giveaways in the email itself, which could lead to the deletion of ham
(legitimate email mistaken for spam), Graham's proposed filter would


==========> 03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5354264.htm

Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2003
Success of Weblogs Heralds Big Future
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - The online diaries known as Weblogs, or "blogs,"
seemed like a lot of inconsequential chatter when they surfaced a few
years ago.


==========> 03-03-11-NYT-KaporQuitsBoardOfCompanyInvolvedWithTIA.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/business/11PRIV.html?ex=1048367544&ei=1&en=492a77eeb13df314

Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove
[New York Times]
March 11, 2003
By JOHN MARKOFF

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 - Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal
computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties


==========> 03-03-12-CNETNews-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-992371.html

Congress cracks down on P2P porn 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 12, 2003, 5:30 PM PT

The U.S. Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again--and this time
politicians aren't fretting over music and software piracy. 



==========> 03-03-13-ALA-S609RestoreFOIAWouldEliminateSomeExemptions.txt==========

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:11:10 -0500
From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" 
To: ALA Washington Office Newsline 
Subject: [ALA-WO:802] SENATE INTRODUCES RESTORE FOIA

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 22
March 13, 2003

In This Issue: Senators Introduce the Restore Freedom of Information


==========> 03-03-13-SJMerc-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5384049.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2003
GAO stumbles across T&A on P2P
By John Paczkowski

After weeks of painstaking investigative work and analysis, the General 
Accounting
Office (GAO) and the House Committee on Government Reform were


==========> 03-03-13-USHouse-RepWaxman-P2PMakesPornographyAvailable.txt==========

http://reform.house.gov/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/pdf_pornog_state.pdf

Statement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman
Hearing on Stumbling into Smut: The Alarming Ease of Access to
Pornography on Peer-to-Peer Network
March 13, 2003

Today, I join with Chairman Tom Davis to draw attention 
to an Internet technology that gives
kids easy access to incredibly graphic pornography.


==========> 03-03-13-WashPost-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17695-2003Mar12.html

Pornography Prevalent on File-Sharing Services 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 13, 2003; Page E01 

Popular Internet services that allow computer users to swap
music and video clips also are an easy and free-flowing
conduit for pornography, including images of minors,


==========> 03-03-14-CNETNews-TechCompaniesToWorkOnAntiSpamSpec.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-992759.html

Tech firms tackle spam 
By Stefanie Olsen 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 14, 2003, 3:59 PM PT

SAN FRANCISCO--Several major technology companies convened here on
Friday to discuss solutions to a frustrating common denominator among them:
spam. 


==========> 03-03-17-CNN-IETF-AntiSpamResearchGroupMeets.txt==========

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/17/halting.spam.ap/index.html

Redesigning the Net to save it from spam
SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- 

To stem the unrelenting tidal wave of unsolicited, unwanted e-mail,
people and companies are going to extraordinary lengths -- at
considerable expense. 

They mask their e-mail addresses, install filters, create white lists of


==========> 03-03-19-CNETNews-CDTProject-SimpleTechniquesCanStopMostSpam.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1024-993333.html

Study suggests spam-stopping tricks 
By Lisa M. Bowman 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 19, 2003, 1:52 PM PT

Want to stop spammers from clogging your in-box with get-rich-quick schemes,
invitations from hot girls and Nigerian money-laundering antics? 



==========> 03-03-20-InfoWeek-IBMResearchersProposeCharityEmailFeeToStop.txt==========

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030320S0003

Making Senders Pay The Price For Spam
March 20, 2003
IBM researchers say making spammers pay to
send their messages could help stem the flood
of unwanted E-mail.
By Tony Kontzer

Companies and consumers alike have been looking to two primary aids


==========> 03-03-22-SJMerc-IETF-ASRG-OrganizesToFightSpam.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5455952.htm

Posted on Sat, Mar. 22, 2003
Forces of good linking their arms against spam
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

There is no shock and awe in the continuing war against spam,
but the forces of good are at last linking arms to fight the
scourge of unsolicited commercial e-mail.


==========> 03-03-24-EETimes-MailblockInternetServiceBlocksSpam.txt==========

http://www.theworkcircuit.com/story/OEG20030324S0012

March 24 2003 
Software developer rolls out "spam-free" e-mail service
By Rick Merritt
EE Times
March 24, 2003 (9:16 a.m. EST)

LOS ALTOS, Calif.  Less than a year after Congress quashed his last startup,
software developer and serial entrepreneur Phil Goldman is back with a new


==========> 03-03-24-SJMerc-DG-MailblockerSpamBlocksTermsIncludeSpam.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000888.shtml#000888

March 24, 2003 
Terms of Disservice
 posted by Dan Gillmor 01:41 PM

The arrogance of technology companies knows no bounds. Consider the Terms of 
Service at a new
company called Mailblocks, which says it'll block spam (unsolicited commercial 
e-mail) for you, for a


==========> 03-03-25-PCWorld-AppealsCourtUpholdsJunkFaxRestrictionLaw.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109975,00.asp

Antispam Crusaders Call for New Laws
 Court's decision to uphold ban on junk faxes seen as first step.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Tuesday, March 25, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Antispam crusaders plan to use an appeals court ruling against
unsolicited faxes last week to push harder for a U.S. federal law against 
unsolicited e-mail.


==========> 03-03-25-TheRegister-MSNLimitsEmailSendingToStopSpam.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29925.html

Hotmail caps email 
By Tim Richardson
Posted: 25/03/2003 at 11:38 GMT

Microsoft is capping the amount of email punters can send using their Hotmail
accounts in a bid to crack down on spam. 

In a statement, the company said: "In an effort to prevent spammers from using


==========> 03-03-27-Salon-TheDifficultyOfSpamBlocking.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/27/spam_fighter/print.html

Salon’s Technology & Business content is brought to you by Infiniti FX45. 
A spam fighter's work is never done
Suresh Ramasubramanian's job is to stop junk e-mail from ever getting to your in
box. But for every spammer he blocks, a dozen more rise up.
By Michelle Delio

March 27, 2003  |  It was the end of another 12-hour day filled with hostility,
deception and confusion, and an exhausted Suresh Ramasubramanian, a systems


==========> 03-03-28-CNETNews-ESRepsVoteToBanDecpetiveURLsAndVirtualPorn.txt==========

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132645,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage

Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
13:14 Friday 28th March 2003
Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com  

The US will imprison owners of Web sites that use
deceptive domain names to lure people into sex sites.
They have also voted to ban 'virtual' child porn 



==========> 03-03-31-CNETNews-FreedomTechnologyAndTheInternet.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-994654.html

Freedom, technology and the Net
By Declan McCullagh 
March 31, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--These are perilous times for online privacy, free speech and the
freedom to tinker with legally purchased hardware and software. 

Last week, the House of Representatives approved a constitutionally dubious 


==========> 03-03-31-Provos-WebPagesMovedOffshore-MichSuperDMCA.txt==========

http://niels.xtdnet.nl/honeyd/

Due to a new Michigan law, the legality of my research or these web pages is
currently unclear. Felton provides additional information about the resulting
restrictions on technology and research. 

The web pages will be reinstated once the situation has been resolved. Please,
support the EFF. 




==========> 03-03-31-Salon-NetworkedWorldPosesManyThreatsToHumanity.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/31/knowledge/index.html

Are we doomed yet?
The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that
no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is 
our best
chance for survival.
By Sheldon Pacotti

March 31, 2003  |  I've been talking to


==========> 03-04-02-InternetNews-IndianaLegislaturePassesAntiSpamBill.txt==========

http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/2174451

April 2, 2003
Indiana Spam Bill Passes Legislature
By Brian Morrissey

Indiana's House of Representatives voted 90-0 to pass a bill
With a number of anti-spam measures, including a
Provision to
penalize senders up to $500 per piece of unsolicited e-mail.


==========> 03-04-03-SJMerc-CASupremeCourtDividedOnIntelEmailCase.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5549141.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 03, 2003
Intel e-mail issue divides court
By Howard Mintz
Mercury News

LOS ANGELES -  The California Supreme Court on Wednesday
Appeared deeply divided over how to balance free-speech rights in
Cyberspace against a company's right to control its


==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpamActivistSuesOverSpamBlockingPatents.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5565843.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003
Spam foe needs filter of himself
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Phil Goldman, a veteran SiliconValley entrepreneur and co-founder
of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's
begun by attacking his coalition partners rather than the enemy.


==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpammerBuysChallengeResponsePatent.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/mike_langberg
/5565050.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003
Spam foe puts his own interests first
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Phil Goldman, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder
of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's begun


==========> 03-04-06-SJMerc-DG-LibertiesWeHaveLost.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5571471.htm

Posted on Sun, Apr. 06, 2003
Why we may never regain the liberties that we've lost
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

NEW YORK - The lights of a magnificent, recovering city glittered from
the 80th floor of the Empire State Building on Wednesday evening. The
multiple ironies were not lost on the gathering of civil-liberties and


==========> 03-04-07-CNETNews-PornSpamPresentsLegalIssuesForEmployers.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

Porn spam--legal minefield for employers 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon
pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against
spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. 


==========> 03-04-08-WashPost-JudgeRulesAntiSpamWebsiteDoesn'tHarass.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

Porn spam--legal minefield for employers 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon
pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against
spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. 


==========> 03-04-09-Purdue-CERIAS-Roundtable-FreedomToTeach-FreedomToLe.txt==========

CERIAS
April 9, 2003
Special Roundtable 

Because of recent events in the news, we have scheduled a special roundtable 
session 
at the CERIAS spring security symposium. The session is entitled "Freedom to 
Teach, 
Freedom to Learn: Information Security as a Sensitive Topic" and I will 
moderate. 


==========> 03-04-10-CNETNews-FedAntiSpamBillReintroduced.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-996412.html?tag=nl

Antispam bill gets a second go
By Declan McCullagh 
CNET News.com
April 10, 2003, 1:19 PM PT

WASHINGTON--A pair of U.S. senators are trying once again to enact a federal law
restricting spam. On Thursday, Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
reintroduced a bill they first drafted in 1999, which would make it a federal 


==========> 03-04-10-MSNBC-SenBurnsAndWydenIntroduceCan-SpamBill.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/898578.asp?cp1=1

Senate introduces bill to can spam
Bill aims to reduce flood of unsolicited e-mail pitches
By Jane Weaver
MSNBC

April 10  Spam relief may be on the way. The
long-awaited "Can-Spam" bill, designed to
protect consumers from unwanted commercial


==========> 03-04-10-SFGate-CFP03FocussesonCivilLibertiesIssues.txt==========

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/04/10/cfp.DTL

War on Electronic Privacy 
Attendees of Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference fight for high tech 
civil liberties 
Annalee Newitz, Special to SF Gate 
Thursday, April 10, 2003 

The giant silver coffee dispensers positioned at the
center of the meeting rooms in the New Yorker Hotel


==========> 03-04-11-Harvard-Edelman-GoogleSafeSearchGreatlyOverblocks.txt==========

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/google-safesearch/

Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch
Benjamin Edelman - Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Harvard Law School 
This research is part of a series of projects with Professor Jonathan Zittrain.

 Abstract 

 Google offers interested users a version of its search engine restricted by a
 service it calls SafeSearch, intended to omit references to sites with


==========> 03-04-14-EFF-MPAA-StateSuperDMCALawsOpposed.txt==========

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/20030414_eff_sdmca_pr.php

For Immediate Release: Monday, April 14, 2003
Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Digital Lockdown
Some States Pass, Others Consider Copyright Legislation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

San Francisco, CA - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today 
released a detailed analysis of the dangers posed by


==========> 03-04-14-GAOReport-P2PProvideAccessToChildPornography.txt==========

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03351.pdf

GAO Report "File Sharing Programs: Peer-to-Peer Networks Provide Ready
Access to Child Pornography", characterizes the Internet, specifically 
mentioning "broadband" as the
leading source of child pornography.  

Also
thought that SIGGRAPH might be interested in the hearing that the Full House
Government Reform Committee held yesterday "Stumbling onto Smut the Alarming


==========> 03-04-14-SJMerc-DG-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000942.shtml#000942

April 14, 2003 
DMCA Misused Again, Stifling Speech
 posted by Dan Gillmor 05:10 PM

     Slashdot: Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist. On Saturday 
night,
     Virgil and Acidus, two young security researchers, were scheduled to give 
a talk at


==========> 03-04-14-Slashdot-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt==========

http://features.slashdot.org/features/03/04/14/1846250.shtml

Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist
Posted by jamie on Monday April 14,
@03:14PM
from the cease-and-desist dept.

On Saturday night, Virgil and Acidus, two young
security researchers, were scheduled to give a
talk at Interz0ne II on security flaws they'd found


==========> 03-04-14-TheRegister-StateDMCALawsPreventAnonymousCommunicat.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30231.html

Super-DMCA' fears suppress security research
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Posted: 14/04/2003 at 10:16 GMT

Steganography and honeypot expert Niels Provos may risk four years in
prison by completing his Ph.D., writes Kevin Poulsen, of SecurityFocus. 

A University of Michigan graduate student noted for his research into


==========> 03-04-15-BBC-AOLTriesLawsuitsToStopSpam.txt==========

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2949887.stm

Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 April, 2003, 12:32 GMT 13:32 UK  

AOL targets spam e-mails The largest internet service provider
in the US, America Online is taking legal action to try to stop the flood of
spam that has infuriated many of its 27 million customers. 

AOL has filed lawsuits against more than a dozen individuals and companies
who it says have sent millions of unsolicited messages through its


==========> 03-04-15-WashPost-Spam-AOLSues-BillsIntroduced.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26420-2003Apr14?language=printer

washingtonpost.com 
Lawsuits by AOL Escalate Fight Against Junk E-Mail 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 15, 2003; Page A01 

America Online Inc. has launched an intensified legal 
assault on junk e-mail by filing five lawsuits against more than a dozen


==========> 03-04-17-SJMec-WalMartShutsSiteProvidingBargainBarCodes.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5655505.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003
Wal-Mart pressure closes Web site with bargain bar codes

A Web site that urged visitors to lower prices for grocery items
by substituting bar codes shut itself down after pressure from
Wal-Mart Inc.

The site's operators, a group of tech-savvy political


==========> 03-04-17-SJMerc-DMCAUsedToStopIDCardPresentation.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5656656.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003
Student barred from discussing flaws in campus technology

ATLANTA (AP) - Fifteen minutes before he was to lecture on security flaws in
a debit card system used on 223 college campuses, 22-year-old Billy Hoffman
found out a judge had banned him from talking.

Hoffman had used a screwdriver to break into a laundry room swipe


==========> 03-04-17-SJMerc-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubjects.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5655510.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003
Federal regulators try to shut down deceptive spam e-mail operation

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators want to shut down a spam operation
that allegedly used deceptive e-mail with bland subject lines like ``new
movie info'' and ``did you hear the news'' to lure people to pornographic
Web sites.



==========> 03-04-18-SJMerc-WashStateBillWouldProhibitViolentVideoGameSa.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5666096.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 18, 2003
Washington lawmakers pass bill banning sale of violent video games to kids

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -Washington state is on the verge of approving a law
that will fine retailers $500 if they sell children video games that depict 
violence
against police.



==========> 03-04-18-WashPost-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubject.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5664540.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 18, 2003
FTC files suit against purveyor of porn e-mails
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post

The Federal Trade Commission is suing one of the country's most active
purveyors of pornographic junk e-mail, part of a stepped-up push by the
agency to combat spam.


==========> 03-04-23-PCWorld-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110400,00.asp

E-Mail Marketers Sue Antispammers
 Florida suit could reveal e-marketing tactics, defendant says.
Daniel Tynan, special to PCWorld.com
Wednesday, April 23, 2003

A group of Florida e-mail marketers have fired another round--in court--in the 
rapidly
escalating spam wars.


==========> 03-04-23-TheRegister-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30368.html

Florida spammers sue anti-spam groups
By John Leyden
Posted: 23/04/2003 at 12:25 GMT

A group of Florida-based porn peddlers, penis enlargement and Viagra
spammers has united to file suit against anti-spam organisations. 

Under the newly-registered name EmarketersAmerica.org, a front set up


==========> 03-04-24-InternetNews-EmailAvertisersAnnounceAnti-SpamPlan.txt==========

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/2196041

April 24, 2003 
E-Mail Coalition Floats New Anti-Spam Plan 
By Alex Goldman 

BALTIMORE -- Hans Peter Brondmo, a noted technology author and Digital Impact
fellow, has announced a multi-year plan by the Network Advertising Initiative's 
Email
Service Provider Coalition (NAI ESPC) to change the architecture of e-mail in 


==========> 03-04-26-SJMerc-LessigLofgrenBill-BountyOnSpammers.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5725404.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 26, 2003
New weapon for spam: bounty
By Michael Bazeley
Mercury News

Spammers beware. Larry Lessig wants to put a price on your head.

The Stanford law professor will team with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San


==========> 03-04-26-SpamHaus-ROKSO-DatabaseOfSpammers.txt==========

http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso

 ROKSO collates information and evidence on known hard-line spam 
 operations that have been thrown off Internet
 Service Providers 3 times or more. The search field above 
 will cross-reference information including names, aliases, zip
 codes, parts of street addresses, towns, domains, IP addresses, netblocks, 
hosts, etc.
 90% of all spam received by  Internet users in North  America and Europe is 
sent


==========> 03-04-28-SJMerc-AOL-MS-YahooToFightSpamTogether.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5735555.htm

Posted on Mon, Apr. 28, 2003
E-mail giants joining forces to battle spam
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post

Three of the nation's largest e-mail account providers, normally bitter
rivals, will announce today a joint assault on spam, vowing to
Collaboratively hunt down unsavory e-mailers and explore industry


==========> 03-04-29-FinTimes-ApproachesToStoppingSpam.txt==========

"The War Against Spam"
       Financial Times (04/29/03) P. 11; Morrison, Scott 

       Jupiter Research estimates that the number of unsolicited commercial 
emails
       users receive annually has skyrocketed from 140 billion in 2001 to 319 
billion
       in 2003, while the average email recipient is expected to have to wade 
through
       more than 3,900 pieces of spam each year by 2007. Meanwhile, Ferris


==========> 03-04-29-FTC-StudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt==========

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/04/spamrpt.htm

For Release: April 29, 2003
FTC Measures False Claims Inherent in Random Spam
At Least One Form of Deception Found in Sixty-Six Percent of
Random Sample

In a random sample of 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial
e-mail (UCE) from three Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data
sets, 66 percent contained false "From" lines, "Subject" lines, or


==========> 03-04-29-SJMerc-FTCStudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5744010.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2003
Study: Two-thirds of junk e-mails contain claims that are probably false

WASHINGTON (AP) -Internet users skeptical of junk e-mails
promising easy money, miracle cures and dream dates are
right to be wary: The government says
two-thirds of the ``spam'' messages clogging online mailboxes
probably are false in some way.


==========> 03-04-29-Virginia-GovernorSignsToughestAntiSpamBill.txt==========

http://www.governor.state.va.us/Press_Policy/Releases/2003/Apr03/0429b.htm

April 29, 2003
Ellen Qualls (804) 786-2211, x 2379 cell: (804) 393-9429
Governor Warner Signs Toughest in the Nation Anti-"SPAM" Bill
 SB 1139 and HB 2290 make high volume unsolicited bulk e-mail a felony 

DULLES  Governor Mark R. Warner today ceremonially
signed two bills to raise the penalty to a felony for high volume
unsolicited bulk e-mail, known as "spam." The new anti-spam


==========> 03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html 

"Sending of Spam With Fraud Is Now Felony in Virginia"
       New York Times (04/30/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul 

       Growing public anger toward unsolicited commercial email and the 
deceptive
       methods that spammers use is causing Congress and U.S. states to consider
       tough solutions, and one of the harshest anti-spam measures was passed 
into


==========> 03-05-07-PCWorld-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110627,00.asp

EarthLink Wins $16 Million in Spam Case
 Judge rules against absent defendant, who sent e-mail by millions.
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Wednesday, May 07, 2003

A district court in Atlanta has awarded EarthLink $16 million in damages 
against a New York
state man that it alleged used illegal means to send out more than 825 million 


==========> 03-05-07-SJMerc-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5810373.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 07, 2003
Judge awards EarthLink $16 million, bans spammer

ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge awarded the Internet service provider
Earthlink damages of $16.4 million Wednesday and a permanent injunction
against a Buffalo, N.Y.-based sender of junk e-mail.

Howard Carmack, identified as the leader of a ring that used


==========> 03-05-08-USAToday-TheSpamProblem.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030508/5139591s.htm

Companies, e-mail users fed up with 'relentless,' often inappropriate junk
By Jon Swartz and Paul Davidson
USA TODAY

Stephen Smith can't escape spam.

The junk e-mails, about 300 a day, show up on his home PC. His work PC. His 
cellphone.


==========> 03-05-13-WashPost-DraftAntiSpamBillCalledWeakAndVague.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47350-2003May12?start=15&per=13

Draft of Bill On Mass E-Mail Is Called Weak
A Key Point: Is It 'Spam' If Sender Is Legitimate? 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 13, 2003; Page E01 

Lobbyists for the marketing, retailing and Internet
service industries have been working closely with two


==========> 03-05-15-CNETNews-AntiSpamPlan-IdentifyOpenRelays.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1001868.html

Feds prime new antispam weapon 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 15, 2003, 11:08 AM PT

Federal and state law enforcement agencies pledged to take an aggressive new
approach to fighting spam: identifying "open relay" mail servers that serve as
conduits for massive quantities of junk e-mail. 


==========> 03-05-18-BostonGlobe-SeveralMethodsToStopSpam.txt==========

http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/138/business/Leave_me_alone_+.shtml

Leave me alone!
With junk e-mail out of control, Internet experts want to redesign the whole 
system
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 5/18/2003

You think the dozen or two spam e-mails you delete every day are a lot? 

That's nothing to Paul Judge, chief technology officer of CipherTrust, an 


==========> 03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5889390.htm

Posted on Sun, May. 18, 2003
Dan Gillmor: A new brand of journalism is taking root in South Korea
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

SEOUL - Lee Bong-Ryul has a day job as an engineer at a semiconductor
company. In his spare time, he's helping to shape tomorrow's journalism.



==========> 03-05-20-NYT-SpammersUseUnprotectedComputersToRoute.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/20/technology/20SPAM.html 

"Email's Backdoor Open to Spammers"
       New York Times (05/20/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul 

       Routing junk email through unwitting third parties, usually home and 
office
       Internet users, is the No. 1 distribution method spammers use, and ISPs 
such
       as America Online estimate that over 200,000 computers around the world


==========> 03-05-21-Microsoft-GatesSuggestionsToControlSpam.txt==========

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/misc/billgspam05-21-03.asp

Letter from Bill Gates to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee 
Regarding Spam Hearings
Wednesday, May 21st, 2003

Dear Chairman McCain and Ranking Member Hollings:

Thank you for holding this important and timely hearing on 
spam. I greatly appreciate the leadership of both you and your Commerce


==========> 03-05-22-AP-WashStateBansViolentVideoGamesFoMinors.txt==========

Wash. Limits Access to Violent Games
State's law prohibiting sale or rental to kids of video games depicting
brutality against police is first in the nation.
>From Associated Press and Bloomberg News
May 22, 2003

Washington this week became the first state in the nation prohibiting the
sale or rental to children of video games that depict violence against
police.



==========> 03-05-22-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110837,00.asp

Will Taxing E-Mail Stop Spam?
Congress considers international treaty, tough laws, opt-out registries, and 
more.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Thursday, May 22, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers, antispam activists, and even a self-professed spammer 
are


==========> 03-05-22-SJMerc-Spam-GovtAndIndustryEffortNeeded.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5920220.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 22, 2003
Tech experts ask for international effort to control spam
By David Ho
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A broad international effort by government
and industry is needed to stop the torrent of junk e-mail that
threatens Internet commerce and


==========> 03-05-23-CNETNews-FedOptOutAntiSpamBillIntroduced.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-1009467.html?tag=nl

Antispam measure gains steam in House
By Declan McCullagh and Jim Hu 
CNET News.com
May 23, 2003, 12:57 PM PT

Antispam sentiment on Capitol Hill is growing, with a new proposal in the House 
of
Representatives promising to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and


==========> 03-05-23-SJMerc-CASenateBarelyPassesAntiSpamBill.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5929361.htm

Posted on Fri, May. 23, 2003
State Senate OKs spam ban
E-MAIL ADS MEASURE BARELY PASSES

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Legislation banning unsolicited e-mail
Advertisements commonly known as spam was approved
Thursday by the California Senate without a vote to spare.



==========> 03-05-25-NYT-SeveralTechnicalAntiSpamProposals.txt==========

"How to Unclog the Information Artery"
       New York Times (05/25/03) P. 3-1; Hansell, Saul 

       The growing headache of spam has prompted proposals to rigorously control
       it, some of which aim to be effective without repressing the libertarian 
spirit of
       the Internet. Hans Peter Brondmo of Digital Impact advocates Project 
Lumos,
       which requires mass emailers to include an encrypted digital certificate 
in the


==========> 03-05-27-LATimes-USSpamFloodingEurope.txt==========

"American Spam Is Flooding Europe"
       Los Angeles Times (05/27/03) P. C3; Moore, Matt 

       Experts claim that most of the unsolicited commercial email swamping
       European ISPs originates in the United States, and partially blame 
disparate
       enforcement policies and lenient penalties for spam's proliferation. 
Anti-spam
       enforcement is the responsibility of individual nations, and the 
European Union


==========> 03-05-27-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110881,00.asp

Antispam Law Likely
Congress considers many plans, but will any solve the problem?
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Tuesday, May 27, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Amid a chorus of voices calling on the U.S. Congress to do 
something
about spam, lawmakers appear to be ready to pass antispam legislation this 


==========> 03-06-06-WSJ-UtahAntiSpamLawResultsInManyLawsuits.txt==========

"Putting a Lid on Spam"
       Wall Street Journal (06/06/03) P. B1; Mangalindan, Mylene 

       Thirty-three U.S. states have enacted anti-spam legislation, but Utah's 
stands
       out for the amount of litigation it has spurred. The Utah statute 
classifies spam
       as any commercial email sent to people with no prior business 
relationship
       with the sender, and requires spammers to clearly mark spam in the 


==========> 03-06-09-Reuters-KidsReceiveInappropriateSpam.txt==========

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59164,00.html

Kids Bombarded With Spam, Porn  
By Reuters  Page 1 of 1 
10:32 AM Jun. 09, 2003 PT

SEATTLE -- Four out of five children receive inappropriate spam 
e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive
spam linking to pornographic materials, according to a study 
released Monday by an Internet security company. 


==========> 03-06-11-CNETNews-FTCProposesSweepingAntiSpamPowers.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1015517.html

FTC seeks powers to smash spam
By Declan McCullagh 
CNET News.com
June 11, 2003, 5:01 AM PT

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday asked Congress for sweeping new
powers that would let it cooperate closely with governments abroad and prosecute
domestic and overseas spammers more readily. 


==========> 03-06-15-AmSci-AllAboutSpam.txt==========

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail?assetid=18916

Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam 
Brian Hayes

I used to feel forlorn whenever I checked my e-mail and found nothing waiting 
for me.
Not much risk of that these days. There's always someone who wants to help me 
lose
32 pounds, or clean up my tarnished credit report, or get me that college 


==========> 03-06-15-SJMerc-DG-TheFutureOfPublishning.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001095.shtml#001095

June 15, 2003 
The Future of Copyright, Publishing, Privacy
 posted by Dan Gillmor 03:11 AM
 permanent link to this item 

            We're on an island in Helsinki's harbor, at a restaurant in a 
restored building that once
            held cannon emplacements. The occasion is a half-day gathering 


==========> 03-06-16-ComputerWorld-UseAIToStopSpam.txt==========

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,82025,00.html

Captchas: Computer Tests Can Defeat Spam
Ingenious computer tests may also advance machine vision and AI. 
By JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN 
JUNE 16, 2003

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Or a rogue robot
program stealthily gathering personal information from chat rooms or
registering for thousands of free e-mail accounts from which to blast


==========> 03-06-17-SJMerc-MS-SuesAllegedSpammers.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6109149.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 17, 2003
Microsoft files 15 lawsuits against alleged ``spammers'' in US, UK

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has filed 15
lawsuits accusing the defendants of collectively flooding its systems and
customers with more than 2 billion deceptive unsolicited e-mail messages.

The lawsuits address some of the most misleading, deceptive and


==========> 03-06-17-WashPost-TougherAntiSpamBillsIntroduced.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2497-2003Jun16.html

Anti-Spam Proposals Get Tougher 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 17, 2003; Page E01 

A bipartisan group of legislators and some citizen
groups, concerned that current legislative proposals to
combat e-mail spam are inadequate, are engaged in a


==========> 03-06-18-SJMerc-Spam-MSWantsItBothWays.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6113665.htm

Posted on Wed, Jun. 18, 2003
Microsoft sends a message to spammers
By Kristi Heim
Mercury News Seattle Bureau

Microsoft filed 15 suits Tuesday against senders of unsolicited
e-mail in the United States and Europe, seeking potentially
billions of dollars in damages.


==========> 03-06-20-SJMerc-DG-OptOutSpamBillIsNoGood.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001106.shtml#001106

June 20, 2003 
"More Spam" Bill Makes Progress
 posted by Dan Gillmor 12:26 AM

     Washington Post: Anti-Spam Bill Gains In Senate. The bill was quickly 
endorsed by
     major providers of e-mail accounts, including Microsoft Corp., America 
Online,


==========> 03-06-20-WashPost-CanSpamActGainsInSenate.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14366-2003Jun19.html

Anti-Spam Bill Gains In Senate
Big Internet Firms Endorse Measure 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 20, 2003; Page E05 

The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously
approved legislation yesterday to combat unwanted


==========> 03-06-23-ALA-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 57
June 23, 2003

In This Issue: Supreme Court upholds CIPA, ALA Denounces Decision
For Immediate Release June 23, 2003
ALA denounces Supreme Court ruling on Children's Internet
Protection Act

(Toronto)  We are very disappointed in today's decision.  Forcing


==========> 03-06-23-NYT-SenateUnifiedInOppositionToSpam.txt==========

http://nytimes.com/2003/06/23/technology/23SPAM.html 

"Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point"
       New York Times (06/23/03) P. C1; Lee, Jennifer 8. 

       Congressional members, interest groups, and industry are largely agreed 
that
       legislation is required to stop the rising tide of spam, which is 
estimated to
       account for 40 percent of all email. Because the debate focuses on 


==========> 03-06-23-SJMerc-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6151827.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 23, 2003
Court OKs Anti-Porn Filters in Libraries
GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress
can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with
anti-pornography filters.


==========> 03-06-24-SJMerc-SomeLibrariesToRejectFedGrants.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6158188.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 24, 2003
Many libraries will skip grants to avoid using Net filters
By Julie Sevrens Lyons
Mercury News

Uncle Sam wants YOU to have no library access to potential
Pornographic Web sites. But many local libraries will do
whatever it takes to avoid computer


==========> 03-06-24-SJMerc-SupremeCtOKsCIPAPornFilters.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6158183.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 24, 2003
Court OKs tying library funding to Net filtering
By David Plotnikoff
Mercury News

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law requiring schools and
libraries that receive federal technology funding to use software
intended to filter out pornography.


==========> 03-06-25-CNETNews-MichPassesToughAntiSpamBill.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1021169.html

Michigan Senate passes antispam bill
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 25, 2003, 7:55 PM PT

Modeling itself on a federal bill that would create a national spam opt-out 
list, the Michigan Senate passed what one member described as the nation's 
toughest antispam bill.


==========> 03-06-25-SJMerc-MSCreatesAntiSpamTaskForce.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6165116.htm

Posted on Wed, Jun. 25, 2003
Microsoft creates new anti-spam task force

SEATTLE (AP) - A week after filing 15 lawsuits against alleged junk
e-mailers, Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has created a specialized
group of researchers
and programmers to develop new technological tools to fight spam.



==========> 03-06-30-SJMerc-OnLinePublicRecordsTooAccessible.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6201466.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2003
Are public court records too public in cyberspace?
DAVID KRAVETS
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - Courthouses have long been considered stodgy institutions, 
foreign to the public they serve. The Internet has made them a little less 
detached, offering the ability to pay tickets, attend traffic school, even 

General

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==========> 01-08-21-Simons-StanfordCourseOutline.txt==========

http://barbara.simons.org/CourseOutline.html

STS 260. Information Technology in Society: Legal and Policy Perspectives 
(Also CS 377A)
Barbara Simons, Spring Quarter 2000-2001

The course will deal with some of the issues that are on the boundary between 
law, computer science, and technology. These include, but are not necessarily 
limited to: 



==========> 01-11-05-PostNewsweek-IT.txt==========

Lawmakers Grapple With IT Issues
11/05/01 
By Gail Repsher Emery,
Staff Writer 

Anthrax Scare Brings Confusing Finale to the Budget Cycle

As U.S. lawmakers take up a raft of bills affecting the information technology 
industry, anthrax scares and the temporary closing of congressional offices 
have exacerbated the normal confusion that accompanies the legislative process. 


==========> 02-08-12-CNETNews-GeeksShouldProbablyStickToTechnology.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-949275.html

Geeks in government: A good idea?
By Declan McCullagh 
August 12, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--There's a lot for a politically aware geek to be alarmed about
nowadays. 

Big companies are wielding copyright threats to stifle legitimate security 


==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-Review-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt==========

Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues
By TechNews.com Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM

In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out
with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock
performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks
and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech
business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes


==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt==========

Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues
By TechNews.com Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM

In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out
with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock
performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks
and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech
business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes


==========> 03-01-07-WashPost-RulemakingShiftsAwayFromCongress.txt==========

Washington Post
Rulemaking Shifts Away From the Hill
By Cindy Skrzycki
Tuesday, January 7, 2003; Page E01

For business, it's like a "Home Alone" movie.

There are no pesky Democratic committee chairmen in the new Congress to 
hold prying oversight hearings when the Bush administration decides to 
roll back Clinton-era rules. There is no Democrat in the White House with 

Intellectual Property

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02-03-27-SJMerc-SharewarePiracy.txt
02-03-28-Reuters-DutchCourtClearsKaZaA.txt
02-03-29-SJMerc-CharterSchoolIllegallyCopiesCoursest.txt
02-03-29-USACM-CBDTPA-Letter.txt
02-04-01-CNETNews-KazaaStealthP2PNetwork.txt
02-04-04-USAToday-DigitalPiracy-CBDTPA.txt
02-04-08-SFChronicle-Technolgy-LawReview.txt
02-04-10-SeattlePI-Authors-AmazonStopUsedBookSales.txt
02-04-15-Ellis-CD-DVD-NewBusinessModels.txt
02-04-15-Salon-EldredvAshcroft-CopyrightExtension.txt
02-04-17-USAToday-HighDefMultimediaInterface.txt
02-04-21-Salon-EldredvAshcroft-Interview.txt
02-05-00-Business2-CBDTPA-HollywoodvsHighTech.txt
02-05-01-CNETNews-BidenBill-Counterfeit.txt
02-05-03-EFF-CourtOrdersReplayTVtoSpy.txt
02-05-04-SJMerc-DG-MediaControl.txt
02-05-07-SJMerc-BPDG-HDTV.txt
02-05-12-NandoTimes-PublicDomainInfo.txt
02-05-13-BusinessWeek-Lessig-FutureEBusiness.txt
02-05-13-WSJ-PamSamuelson.txt
02-05-15-SonicBlue-SnoopingOrderStayed.txt
02-05-16-CreativeCommons-SharingInfo.txt
02-05-16-NYT-Canada-FeeOnRecordableMedia.txt
02-05-19-SJMerc-Altnet-FileSharingDRM.txt
02-05-21-SJMerc-LC-RejectsWebcastingRoyalityRates.txt
02-05-22-SJMerc-KazaaQuits.txt
02-05-22-SJMerc-Valenti-Cannes.txt
02-05-23-Salon-FightCloud-FreeCDs.txt
02-05-24-NYT-HollywoodvsTechIndustry.txt
02-05-25-SJMerc-RIAA-SuesAudiogalaxy.txt
02-05-25-SJMerc-RIAASuesAudiogalaxy.txt
02-05-27-FortuneMag-HollywoodvsHighTech.txt
02-05-28-CNETNews-GatewaysWaittTakesOnHollywood.txt
02-05-29-SJMerc-Consumers-OnlinePiracyOK.txt
02-05-29-SJMerc-IndependentOnlineMusicSvcs.txt
02-05-29-Slate-MusicSharingServices.txt
02-05-29-Ubiquity-ContentValue-XML.txt
02-05-30-USACM-Grove-EldredvAshcroft.txt
02-05-31-CCIA-BPDGCochairReport-Comments.txt
02-06-03-ChillingEffects-ClearinghouseWebsite.txt
02-06-03-SJMerc-SonicBlueDataCollectionOverturned.txt
02-06-03-SJMerc-VintCerf-GovtBroadbandPolicies.txt
02-06-04-SJMerc-SonicBlueDataCollectionOverturned.txt
02-06-06-SJMerc-EFF-SonicBlueUsersCopyingLawsuit.txt
02-06-07-WashPost-EFF-SonicBlueUsersCopyingLawsuit.txt
02-06-10-ZDNet-SimonsFeltenStanfordPPClass.txt
02-06-11-SJMerc-IFPI-RealCDPiracy.txt
02-06-12-BusinessWeek-CableInternet-TieredPricing.txt
02-06-17-SJMerc-Audiogalaxy-NMPA-RIAA-Settlement.txt
02-06-20-SJMerc-LC-CRArbRoyPanel-WebcastingRoyalties.txt
02-06-24-Cryptome-TCPA-GPL.txt
02-06-24-InfoWorld-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-24-TheRegister-2-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-24-TheRegister-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-06-25-HowardBerman-P2PPiracy.txt
02-06-25-TheRegister-Palladium-GPL.txt
02-06-26-ExtremeTech-MS-Palladium-AMD-MotherboardDesign.txt
02-06-26-RossAnderson-TCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt
02-06-26-Wired-DenmarkDeepLinkingLawsuit.txt
02-06-26-ZDNet-CongBerman-RecordCompaniesHackP2PSites.txt
02-06-27-ECommerceTimes-TelecomReformNeeded.txt
02-06-27-SJMerc-MusicIndustrysSpoofFiles.txt
02-06-27_SJMerc-WebcastingRoyaltiesTooHigh.txt
02-06-27-WashPost-MS-Palladium.txt
02-06-30-SJMerc-RecordIndustryChanging.txt
02-07-00-IEEESpectrum-CopyProtection.txt
02-07-00-IEEESpectrum-FreeOnlineEqualsGreaterSales.txt
02-07-01-Newsweek-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt
02-07-01-SJMerc-MoreMusicOnListen.txt
02-07-03-Cryptome-DOC-DRM-Workshop.txt
02-07-05-SJMerc-NewsboosterBarred-DeepLinking.txt
02-07-08-ActiveWin-PalladiumExplained-TCPA.txt
02-07-08-AtNewYork-Boucher-FairUseFight.txt
02-07-08-BostonGlobe-TCPA-Palladium.txt
02-07-08-LATimes-MinorRecordLabelsUseP2P.txt
02-07-08-PCWorld-MSPalladiumDiscussionOpen.txt
02-07-09-JanisIan-DownloadingMusicGood.txt
02-07-09-RossAnderson-UpdatedTCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt
02-07-11-CNETNews-CobleBermanFairUseRestrictionsBill.txt
02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt
02-07-12-SJMerc-DigitalTVRecordersCouldEndFreeTV.txt
02-07-12-USACM-BunnerBrief.txt
02-07-17-CNETNews-ProtestDOCRoundtable.txt
02-07-20-SJMerc-DG-MSPalladium.txt
02-07-23-CNETNews-BermanHackBill.txt
02-07-25-Berman-BermanP2PHackBill.txt
02-07-25-CNETNews-ACLU-DMCA-Edelman-v-N2H2.txt
02-07-27-SJMerc-DG-HijackingOurRights.txt
02-07-29-NYT-BroadcastFlag-BidenBermanBills.txt
02-07-29-PCWorld-MSRevealsPalladiumDetails.txt
02-07-30-CNETNews-HPUsesDMCAforSecurityThreat.txt
02-07-31-BW-P2P-Hacking.txt
02-08-01-CNETNews-HP-BacksDown-DMCA.txt
02-08-01-DarwinMag-LessigOnPatents.txt
02-08-01-HPPressRelease-HP-BacksDown-DMCA.txt
02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-HPComesToItsSenses-DMCA.txt
02-08-04-NewsRecord-RepCobleSupportsBermanBill.txt
02-08-05-JanisIan-DownloadingMusic-Followup1.txt
02-08-05-USACM-DatabaseProtectionLegislation.txt
02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacki.txt
02-08-07-RIAA-NetRadioRoyaltyRateAppeal.txt
02-08-07-SJMerc-NetRadioRoyaltyRateAppeals.txt
02-08-10-InfoWarrior-Forno-RIAASocialControl.txt
02-08-11-DaveWiner-BermanHackingBill.txt
02-08-11-SJMerc-DG-CopyrightDebateNeeded.txt
02-08-12-ALA-Commets-BidenAnticounterfeitingBillS2395-Databa.txt
02-08-12-SJMerc-JudgeStaysEFFSonicBlueLawsuit.txt
02-08-14-SJMerc-IsRegistrarLiable-sex.com-Registration.txt
02-08-15-OReilly-Lessig-OSCONKeynote.txt
02-08-19-CNETNews-Declan-DMCA-BadButNotTooBad.txt
02-08-19-InfoWaveNet-BansRIAAFromNetwork.txt
02-08-19-SJMerc-RecordingCosSueBackboneProviders-StopChinese.txt
02-08-20-Slate-MusicIndustryDownturnSelfInflicted.txt
02-08-20-ZDNetNews-DOJ-ToProsecuteP2PUsersUnderNETAct.txt
02-08-21-WashPost-Music-Spoofing-CopyProtectCDs-P2PHacking.txt
02-08-25-SJMerc-DG-ActivistsTakeOnHollywood-CobleBill.txt
02-08-26-SJMerc-CDSalesDown.txt
02-08-27-CNETNews-Verizon-CopyrightPositions.txt
02-09-01-GigaLaw-MusicCopyrightsWar.txt
02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt
02-09-02-Telephony-RecordIndustryAsksTelcosToBanTraffic.txt
02-09-03-LATimes-DRM-MayCurtailChoices.txt
02-09-04-SJMerc-RecordCompaniesGetMadsterInjunction.txt
02-09-05-WashPost-RIAASeeksToForceVerizonToHelp.txt
02-09-09-DanBricklin-WhyCDSalesAreDown.txt
02-09-15-SJMerc-DG-IssuesThatWillShapeTheInternet.txt
02-09-16-CIOInsight-Lessig-P2PandSpamVigilantes.txt
02-09-16-NYT-CreativityInDigitalArtPrograms.txt
02-09-17-CNETNews-ConsumerElecAssocSaysP2PNotIllegalOrImmora.txt
02-09-17-SJMerc-DG-FederalSecurityPlanForControlFreaks.txt
02-09-19-SJMerc-DG-ConsumerElecAssocSpeechOnIP.txt
02-09-20-GrepLawHarvard-Marti-FreeSW-SWPatents.txt
02-09-20-InfoWorld-IP-DRM-Issues.txt
02-09-22-SJMerc-DG-ValentiPresentsHollywoodViews.txt
02-09-23-Slashdot-JanisIan3-AnswersQuestions.txt
02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieS.txt
02-09-24-Wired-BermanBillDebate.txt
02-09-25-SJMerc-MusicArtistsAppealAgainstDownloading.txt
02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt
02-09-26-ACM-USACMLetter-HR5211-P2PHackingBill.txt
02-09-26-StarTribune-BermanDefendsP2PHackingBill.txt
02-09-27-NationalJournal-BermanP2PHackingBillHearingHR5211.txt
02-10-02-ZoeLofgren-DigitalChoiceAndFreedomAct-ConsumerRight.txt
02-10-03-ALA-SupportBoucherDoolittleLofgrenBills.txt
02-10-03-LinuxJournal-DocSearls-DigitalHollywoodConfReview-D.txt
02-10-07-CNETNews-BrucePerens-W3CAdoptsRoyaltyFreePolicy.txt
02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt
02-10-09-SJMerc-Cassel-DoWeReallyNeedCopyright.txt
02-10-09-SJMerc-EldredVsAshcroft-JusticesHearArgumentsOnCRLe.txt
02-10-09-SJMerc-ElredVsAshcroft-Lessig.txt
02-10-09-WSJ-BBAddsComplexityToPiracyFighting.txt
02-10-10-WashPost-EldredVsAshcroft-JusticesHearArgumentsOnCR.txt
02-10-11-NYT-EditorialOnEldred-v-Ashcroft.txt
02-10-11-NYT-ExtensionIsAbuseOfCopyright.txt
02-10-14-NYT-CopyrightExtensionOpponentsNotHopeful.txt
02-10-14-NYT-InternationalIPIssues.txt
02-10-14-Reuters-JoniMitchellAshamedToBeInMusicBusiness.txt
02-10-21-NewsForge-Stallman-trustedComputing.txt
02-10-24-DCInternet-DOCBelievesCopyrightFightsSlowingBroadba.txt
02-10-24-ZDNet-BermanP2PHackingBillMayBeRewritten.txt
02-10-30-CNETNews-ACLU-AntiDMCASuit-bBlockingSWList.txt
02-11-03-AOTC-ReviewOfBadTechLegislation.txt
02-11-03-AP-TrustedComputing-UsersCedeControl.txt
02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-03-STMerc-CriticsSayTrustedComputingThreatensConsumerF.txt
02-11-04-ALA-TEACHAct-EducationalUseOfIP.txt
02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-06-EPIC-LetterToCollegePresReP2PMonitoring.txt
02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt
02-11-11-NewScientist-TechChangesCouldStopAttacksOnP2P.txt
02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt
02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt
02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesKidsDomainAndWebcastingRoyal.txt
02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesWebcastingRoyaltyRateRepriev.txt
02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt
02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt
02-11-20-CNETNews-ConservativeJudgePosnerWarnsOfIPExpansion.txt
02-11-20-Wired-RetailersUseDMCAToShutDownFatWallet.txt
02-11-21-TheRegister-RetailersUseDMCAToShutDownFatWallet.txt
02-11-25-CNETNews-MPEG4LicenseTermsReleased.txt
02-11-27-NYT-StudentsLearnToEvadeMovesToProtectMediaFiles.txt
02-11-27-SJMerc-DigitalCopyrightIssueFlaresOnCampuses.txt
02-11-27-SJMerc-MovieStudiosConsideringSelfDestructingDVDs.txt
02-12-01-SJMerc-DG-IPCartelWinsMostOfTheTime.txt
02-12-02-CNETNews-StandardsOrgsHavePatentHoldersOnTheRopes.txt
02-12-02-DigitalConsumer-FoxHeadOKsConsumerCopying.txt
02-12-02-LATimes-EntertainmentFirmsWarnCollegesAboutDownload.txt
02-12-02-SeattleTimes-HollywoodAndTechPartnersAgainstPiracy.txt
02-12-02-SJMerc-EntertainmentIndustryAsksToShutDownMorpheusA.txt
02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt
02-12-02-UCB-FatWalletChallengesRetailersDMCAClaims.txt
02-12-03-CNETNews-MadsterToldToPullThePlug.txt
02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt
02-12-05-EFF-LOC-DMCAReview-HowToRespond.txt
02-12-09-USAToday-MusicIndustryHitsNewLows.txt
02-12-10-SJMerc-MovieStudiosTargetPiratedDVDs.txt
02-12-10-SJMerc-MPAASuesEBayDVDSellers.txt
02-12-11-AzOz-RIAAStatisticsDontAddUp.txt
02-12-16-FinancialTimes-LocalLawsChallengeInternet.txt
02-12-20-NetAction-OurStakeInCyberspace.txt
02-12-23-DJMerc-DG-GameConsoleCompaniesControlConsumersRight.txt
02-12-23-MSNBS-EUCopyrightLawMissesDeadline.txt
03-01-03-SJMerc-BSA-CSPP-LobbyForNoFederalDRMRules.txt
03-01-03-Verizon-SeeksStayOfOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt
03-01-03-Wired-WhyRIAAKeepsGettingHacked.txt
03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt
03-01-08-CNETNews-Congress-DMCAChanges-Spam.txt
03-01-08-CNETNews-LexmarkUsesDMCAToStopAftermarketTonerCartr.txt
03-01-08-DCInternet-BoucherIntroducesDigitalMediaConsumersRi.txt
03-01-09-SJMerc-TiVoToConnectToInternetAsHub.txt
03-01-10-CNETNews-KaZaaCanBeSuedInUS.txt
03-01-11-TheRegister-RIAASiteDefacedAgain.txt
03-01-12-SJMerc-DG-TimeNotOnTheSideOfCopyrightCartel.txt
03-01-13-BostonGlobe-LexmarkUsesDMCAToStopAftermarketPrinter.txt
03-01-15-Salon-vonLohman-RIAA-BSA-CSPP-Agreement.txt
03-01-16-LessigBlog-EldredvAshcroft-CopyrightExtension.txt
03-01-16-SJMerc-CourtUpholdsCopyrightExtension-EldredvAshcro.txt
03-01-16-SJMerc-DG-CourtUpholdsCopyrightExtension-EldredvAsh.txt
03-01-17-Reason-EldredvAshcroft-AnInterviewWithMickeyMouse.txt
03-01-18-NYT-Lessig-CopyrightRenewalFeeProposal.txt
03-01-20-DocSearles-EldredVsAshcroft.txt
03-01-20-NationalLawJ-DMCAResistsChallenges.txt
03-01-21-CNETNews-VerizonForcedToRevealCustomerToRIAA.txt
03-01-21-SJMerc-VerizonOrderedToNamePiracySuspect.txt
03-01-22-SJMerc-RIAAChiefRosenWillQuit.txt
03-01-22-Wired-RIAAWantsISPsToPayForMusicDownloads.txt
03-01-24-SJMerc-DG-MSDropsPalladiumName.txt
03-01-24-SJMerc-NorwegianFinedForProvidingMP3Links.txt
03-01-24-SJMerc-RecordingCompaniesToGoAfterISPsToStopDownloa.txt
03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt
03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt
03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt
03-01-28-LATimes-KazaaChargesMusicIndustryMisusesCopyright.txt
03-01-28-SJMerc-KazaaClaimsMusicCompaniesActedImproperly.txt
03-01-29-SJMerc-DG-PTOMess-SBCsWebNavigationPatents.txt
03-01-30-LATimes-VerizonMadeOfferToRIAAToIdentifySomeP2PUser.txt
03-01-30-NetAction-SBC-EnforcesWebNavigationPatents.txt
03-01-30-SJMerc-VerizonReqestsStayOnOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt
03-01-30-TheRegister-VerizonAppealsOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt
03-01-31-Wired-iCommuneSharesFilesAmongASmallGroup.txt
03-02-01-Salon-EmbraceFileSharingOrDie.txt
03-02-05-HillNews-CongressCommUnveilTechPriorities.txt
03-02-05-LATimes-HollywoodAndTechSayNoCopyrightLegislationLi.txt
03-02-07-IEEE-USA-WantsDMCAReexamined.txt
03-02-07-NatlLawReview-LexmarkTonerCartridgeLawsuitTestsDMCA.txt
03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVide.txt
03-02-11-Wired-TrackingDownKazaaToSue.txt
03-02-12-SJMerc-DMCAUsedToCharge17ForHackingSatelliteTV.txt
03-02-13-NetImperative-RIAATargetsCorpsToStopIllegalDownload.txt
03-02-13-SJMerc-RIAA-MPAA-TargetCorpsToStopIllegalDownloadin.txt
03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt
03-02-20-DetroitNews-SongwritersSueBertelsmannOverNapsterInf.txt
03-02-20-LATimes-SongwritersSueBertelsmannOverNapsterInfring.txt
03-02-20-NYT-PatentsCoveringInternetSecurityOnTrial.txt
03-02-20-Wired-Intel-DigConsumerOrgSymposiumSaysDMCABlocksTe.txt
03-02-23-LATimes-DMCAUsedToStopLegitimateCompetition.txt
03-02-24-ACM-ACMIssuesNewCopyrightPolicy.txt
03-02-24-Wordspy-OnlineDictionaryToldToStopDefiningGoogleAsA.txt
03-02-26-CNETNews-CongressAndOthersTargetUnivAndNoNETProsecu.txt
03-02-27-IDG-GermanCopyrightLevyOnPCsWorriesMany.txt
03-02-27-IDG-GermanysPCCopyrightLevy.txt
03-02-27-SeattlePI-MSBackedBillWouldDiluteStateAntiSpamLaw.txt
03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImprove.txt
03-03-00-ScientificAmerican-LessigsCreativeCommons.txt
03-03-01-SJMerc-DG-LOCPostsPublicCommentaryOnDMCA.txt
03-03-01-StanfordUniv-SpectrumPolicyConference.txt
03-03-02-Suber-DoesGermanysPCCopyrightLevyIncludeRightToCopy.txt
03-03-04-HoutonChron-GroksterSaysLawsuitGoodForBusiness.txt
03-03-05-Annoy-MPAA-RIAANotEntitledToHighMoralGround.txt
03-03-05-SJMerc-NorwegianCourtApprovesDeCSSAppeal.txt
03-03-12-CNETNews-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt
03-03-12-CNETNews-SuspectedSoftwarePirateIndicted.txt
03-03-12-UPI-GermanysPCCopyrightLevy.txt
03-03-13-PCWorld-FoesUseTechTricksToHinderP2P.txt
03-03-13-PCWorld-SomeSayFileTradingSupportsCrimeAndTerrorism.txt
03-03-13-SJMerc-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2.txt
03-03-13-WashPost-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt
03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetwor.txt
03-03-15-Slater-NotesFromHarvardJOLTCopyrightSymposium.txt
03-03-18-SJMerc-LATimes-RIAAWarnsCompaniesAboutIllegal FileS.txt
03-03-18-TheRegister-RosensJustificationOfRIAAActions.txt
03-03-18-WSJ-RIAAWarnsCompaniesAboutIllegal FileSharing.txt
03-03-19-CNETNews-W3CPatentPolicy-RoyaltyFreeLicensesOK.txt
03-03-20-SJMetc-StreamwaveSubscriptionServiceSucceedsInSpite.txt
03-03-22-Yahoo-DVR-MP3MakerSonicBlueToFileForBancruptcy.txt
03-03-24-MilwaukeeSentJ-MSReseachersOthersSayP2PCannotBeStop.txt
03-03-26-Felten-StatesIntroBillsToExtendDMCAToFirewalls.txt
03-03-28-SJMerc-AnalystSaysP2PSharingBiggerThanRecordBusines.txt
03-03-30-Simons-AComputerScientistsViewOfCopyright.txt
03-03-31-CNETNews-FreedomTechnologyAndTheInternet.txt
03-03-31-Provos-WebPagesMovedOffshore-MichSuperDMCA.txt
03-03-31-Salon-NetworkedWorldPosesManyThreatsToHumanity.txt
03-03-31-SJMerc-AdobeEncoreForDVDCreation.txt
03-04-02-SJMerc-ReducedSWPiracyLeadsToIncreasedEconomicGrowt.txt
03-04-02-SJMerc-ShoppingMallOwnerTryingToGetMySimonToChangeI.txt
03-04-03-WSJ-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt
03-04-04-MichTech-MTUPresCitesRIAAForLackOfCooperation.txt
03-04-04-SJmerc-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt
03-04-04-TheRegister-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt
03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpamActivistSuesOverSpamBlockingPatents.txt
03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpammerBuysChallengeResponsePatent.txt
03-04-06-LATimes-BookDetailsNapsterHistory.txt
03-04-07-Wired-BloggerAdmitsPostingWithoutPermission.txt
03-04-08-LATimes-DisneyMayDoDigitalDistributionAnyway.txt
03-04-08-LATimes-MPAATalesPiracyBattleToStates.txt
03-04-09-Wired-BSASaysSoftwarePiracyImportantToo.txt
03-04-10-CNETNews-IETFDecidesPatentsOKForStandards.txt
03-04-10-TheTimesUK-IntlFedPhonoIndBlamesPiracyFoMusicSalesD.txt
03-04-12-FreedomToTinker-MPAA-StateSuperDMCALaws.txt
03-04-13-IntPeople-CDSalesDownBecauseFewerReleases.txt
03-04-14-DailyPrincetonian-VonLohmanSuggestsInternetFundForM.txt
03-04-14-EFF-MPAA-StateSuperDMCALawsOpposed.txt
03-04-14-SJMerc-CDSalesDownBecauseFewerReleases.txt
03-04-16-SJMerc-DG-Apple-UniversalRecordsDealWouldConstrainO.txt
03-04-20-TheRegister-DOJBriefSupportsRIAAInVerizonDMCASuit.txt
03-04-21-MotleyFool-AppleShouldBuyUniversalMusic.txt
03-04-21-PCWorld-DOJBriefSupportsRIAAInVerizonDMCASuit.txt
03-04-21-SJMerc-SteveJobs-GoodHollywoodAndTechCredentials.txt
03-04-24-Wired-Rheingold-IPThreatensAbilityToInnovate.txt
03-04-25-ALA-SuperDMCALawsInStates.txt
03-04-25-CNETNews-JudgeRulesGroksterMorpheusNotLiableForUser.txt
03-04-25-SJMerc-JudgeOrdersVerizonToGiveRIAANames.txt
03-04-26-LATimes-JudgeRulesGroksterMorpheusNotLiableForUsers.txt
03-04-26-SJMerc-JudgeRulesGroksterMorpheusNotLiableForUsersI.txt
03-04-28-CNETNews-ScientistsProtestEUSoftwarePatentPlan.txt
03-04-29-SJMerc-AppleiTunesOffers99CentMusicDownloads.txt
03-04-29-SJMerc-RecordCompaniesSueNapsterVC.txt
03-04-29-Wired-RIAASendsInstantMsgsToFileSharers.txt
03-04-30-SJMerc-RIAASendsMessagesToSuspectedP2PUsers.txt
03-05-00-ACM-USACMSaysDMCAHasChillingEffectOnResearch.txt
03-05-00-IEEESpectrum-IssuesInCopyrightForTheDigitalAge.txt
03-05-00-WUMag-CompensatingThirdWorldPeopleForIP.txt
03-05-01-SJMerc-AppleiTunesGoodAndBad.txt
03-05-01-TheRegister-RIAASettlesCollegeStudentSuits.txt
03-05-01-Wired-CurrentMusicDownloadPricesTooHigh.txt
03-05-02-DailyPrince-RIAASettlesCollegeStudentSuits.txt
03-05-02-SJMerc-RIAASettlesCollegeStudentSuits.txt
03-05-08-PRNewsWire-MusicDownloadersFavoriteGenres.txt
03-05-12-CNETNews-RIAAApologizesForLetter.txt
03-05-12-CNETNews-RIAAApologizesToPennState.txt
03-05-13-SJMerc-UniversalSuesBertelsmannOverNapster.txt
03-05-14-Apple-iTunesTopsTwoMillionDownloads.txt
03-05-16-Lessig-NeedSponsorForCopyrightFeeBill.txt
03-05-19-CNETNews-CongressionalCaucusTargetsPiracy.txt
03-05-19-ComputerWorld-W3CReadiesNewPatentPolicy.txt
03-05-19-TheRegister-RoxioBuysPressplayToRelaunchNapster.txt
03-05-20-SJMerc-PressplayDealToLetNapsterOperateAgain.txt
03-05-21-CNETNews-W3CAdoptsNoPatentPolicy-Almost.txt
03-05-21-FinTimes-EMIToJoinSuitAgainstBertelsmann.txt
03-05-23-SJMerc-KazaaClaims230MillionDownloads.txt
03-05-27-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersRhapsodyMusicService.txt
03-05-28-SeattlePI-OnlineMusicServices.txt
03-05-28-SJMerc-eBayViolatedPatents.txt
03-05-30-SJMerc-AOL-MS-SettlementMayBoostDigContent.txt
03-06-02-ALA-SupremeCtDecidesVideoRepackagingCase.txt
03-06-03-Lessig-PetitionToReclaimPublicDomainByCopyrightFee.txt
03-06-03-MSNBC-RIAASuesMorpheusCreatorsAgain.txt
03-06-04-CNETNews-VerizonMustHandOverNamesToRIAA.txt
03-06-04-SJmerc-VerizonMustHandOverNamesToRIAA.txt
03-06-05-MSNBC-PearlJamLeavesRecordCoForInternet.txt
03-06-05-TheRegister-EMISuesBertelsmannOverNapster.txt
03-06-15-SJMerc-DG-TheFutureOfPublishning.txt
03-06-17-Salon-VerizonCaseAttacksCivilLiberties.txt
03-06-17-SenJudiciary-TheDarkSideOfP2P.txt
03-06-18-CNETNews-Hatch-DestroyMusicPiratesComputers.txt
03-06-18-Hatch-StatementOnCopyrightEnforcement.txt
03-06-18-SJMerc-Hatch-DestroyMusicPiratesComputers.txt
03-06-19-Wired-OrrinHatchIsAnAllegedSoftwarePirate.txt
03-06-20-CNETNews-HR2517PutsFBIIntoP2PEnforcement.txt
03-06-20-INetNews-McCainPromisesReviewOfDMCASubpoena.txt
03-06-25-RIAA-ToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-25-SlashDot-RIAADoingTheRightThing.txt
03-06-25-TheRegister-RIAAToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-25-WashPost-BillIntroducedForCopyrightFee.txt
03-06-25-WashPost-RIAAToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-26-EFF-RIAAToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-26-LATimes-HulkMoviePirateConvicted.txt
03-06-26-LATimes-RIAAToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-26-SJMerc-RIAAToGatherElectronicP2PEvidence.txt
03-06-27-SJMerc-MusicSwappersIgnoreRIAAThreats.txt
03-06-30-SJMerc-EntertainmentAndP2PExecsToMeet.txt




==========> 00-02-22-NYT-ComprightAssemblyFormedToProtectCR.txt==========

http://eon.law.harvard.edu/trusting/sager1.html

Ira Sager, Steve Hamm, Neil Gross, and John Carey
The New York Times, Tuesday, February 22, 2000

WASHINGTON -- Amid growing concern over the threat of Internet piracy, a
broad coalition of groups representing copyright holders have banded together
to create a new, potentially formidable lobbying force. 

In a letter this week, 30 groups and associations notified Congress that they 


==========> 01-10-01-SmartBusiness-PaulSomerson.txt==========

Subject: Paul Somerson in October issue of Smart Business
 Resent-Date:  Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:52:35 -0400
 Resent-From:  publicpolicy@mab4d.com

In the October issue of Smart Business magazine (formerly PC Computing) 
Paul Somerson's column, entitled "Busted," covers the whole range of issues 
from DeCSS to Skylarov.   For those who have not followed Mr. Somerson's 
career, his current incarnation is as a curmudgeon.  His column is at times 
acerbic, at times belligerent, almost always controversial.  His April 
fools column is guaranteed to generate flames -- if not an entire bonfire ;-)


==========> 01-10-01-Wired-Jeff-Howe-PayPerView.txt==========

Subject:  Paul Somerson in October issue of Smart Business
Date:  Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:26:48 -0700

In the October issue of Smart Business magazine (formerly PC Computing) 
Paul Somerson's column, entitled "Busted," covers the whole range of issues 
from DeCSS to Skylarov.   For those who have not followed Mr. Somerson's 
career, his current incarnation is as a curmudgeon.  His column is at times 
acerbic, at times belligerent, almost always controversial.  His April 
fools column is guaranteed to generate flames -- if not an entire bonfire ;-)



==========> 01-10-08-StoredCourseNov801.txt==========

Proposed Policy for Stored Course Materials
Revision October 8, 2001
NOTE: THIS PROPOSAL HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE FLORIDA
TECH SENATE AFTER BEING APPROVED BY AN INTERNAL DRAFTING
COMMITTEE. IT IS STILL A PROPOSAL. IT IS NOT FLORIDA TECH
POLICY AND WILL PROBABLY BE AMENDED BEFORE BECOMING
FLORIDA TECH POLICY. (However, representatives of key administrative and
faculty constituencies back it, so it’s probably not too far off of what will 
become
our policy.)


==========> 01-10-22-CNET-SSSCA-TechCos.txt==========

Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate 
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com 
October 22, 2001, 2:15 p.m. PT 

Technology industry heavyweights are trying to kill a Hollywood-backed plan
heading for Congress that would require anti-piracy protections in PCs, CD
players and other consumer electronics devices. 

After weeks of conference calls and quiet rallying of the troops, technology 


==========> 01-11-07-SJMerc-MusicCity-Morpheus.txt==========

Posted at 2:36 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 
SJ Mercury News

         Electronic Frontier Foundation
         defends 'next Napster' company

         SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A free speech advocacy organization with a
         history of tackling civil liberties issues in cyberspace has joined 
the legal
         defense team of a company sued by Hollywood for fueling the online 


==========> 01-11-08-WashPost-IP.txt==========

Rivals to Vie for Napster Niche

                  By Alec Klein,
                  Washington Post Staff Writer
                  Thursday, November 8, 2001; 8:08 AM

                  RealNetworks Inc. is set to debut an online
                  music service in less than four weeks with a
                  price tag aimed at a broad audience.



==========> 01-11-13-SJMerc-EMI-Subscrpt.txt==========

Posted at 8:33 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001 

         EMI to offer music subscription service
         Deal with Liquid Audio to be launched next year
         BY DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI
         Mercury News 

         EMI Recorded Music is poised to become the first major label to launch 
a
         subscription service that allows consumers to have their way with 


==========> 01-11-20-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

EU Moves To Ratify Cybercrime Terms, Penalties 

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
20 Nov 2001, 12:20 PM CST

Spurred by the passage of a global cybercrime treaty and the events of Sept. 
11, the European Union has working to fast-track a proposal that would 
harmonize definitions and penalties for a range computer crimes.



==========> 01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt==========

Thirty Nations Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty

By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
26 Nov 2001, 10:04 AM CST

The United States and 29 other nations signed a treaty last Friday establishing 
common tools and rules for fighting Internet crime. 

On Nov. 23, foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan and South 


==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-FeltenDMCASDMI.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-946890.html
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        This story was printed from ZDNN,
        located at http://zdnet.com.com/2001-11-0.
        --------------------------------------------------------------
Pirate this, go to jail
By Declan McCullagh 
Special to ZDNet
July 29, 2002, 5:19 AM PT



==========> 01-11-30-SJMerc-KaZaA.txt==========

Posted at 6:55 a.m. PST Friday, Nov. 30, 2001 
Dutch judge orders KaZaA online music service to shut down within 14 days

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- KaZaA, a Dutch Internet file-sharing
service modeled on the U.S. song-swapping site Napster, has been ordered
to stop providing free music over the Internet or face fines of up to $40,000 a
day, according to court documents.

In a ruling from an Amsterdam district judge issued late Thursday, the Dutch
company KaZaA BV was told to block users from sharing copyright-protected 


==========> 01-12-03-Recorder-CriminalProsecution.txt==========

The Crackdown on IP Crime: More and more intellectual property disputes head to 
criminal court 
By Jason Hoppin 
The Recorder
December 3, 2001 

In July 1999, then-Deputy Attorney General Eric
Holder Jr. was in San Jose to tell a new breed of
crooks that the jig was up. 



==========> 01-12-03-SJMerc-FairUse.txt==========

Posted at 1:25 a.m. PST Monday, Dec. 3, 2001 

SJMercury

Hollywood hammers your legitimate uses of copying technology

Hollywood studios have won a big victory in their legal campaign to stop people 
from copying DVDs.

The federal appeals court in New York has barred a Web site from posting how to 


==========> 01-12-03-SJMerc-MusicNet.txt==========

Posted at 3:15 p.m. PST Monday, Dec. 3, 2001 

MusicNet to launch on RealNetworks' Tuesday

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three of the world's major record labels and software 
provider RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday will launch MusicNet, an online subscription 
venture, the biggest effort by the music industry to distribute music 
profitably over the Internet.

The service will launch on RealNetworks' new RealOne service -- which melds its 


==========> 01-12-06-AP-WIPO.txt==========

Updated: Thu, Dec 06 4:31 PM EST

By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer 

GENEVA (AP) - A treaty that brings world copyright law into the digital age by 
protecting authors on the Internet will take effect March 6, the United Nations 
said Thursday. 

"This is an important day in the history of copyright, making it better 
equipped to meet the technological challenges of cyberspace," said Kamal Idris, 


==========> 01-12-10-CompUser-PTO-DMCA.txt==========

ReleVents
Whither intellectual property?
By: James Mathewson
December 10, 2001
URL: 
http://www.computeruser.com/articles/daily/8,6,1,1210,01.html

01/12/10 ReleVents hed: Whither intellectual property? dek: James Rogan, the 
new patent and trademark chief, is not inclined to protect consumers in this 
important area. by James Mathewson 



==========> 01-12-10-ComputerUser-NewPTOChief.txt==========

http://www.computeruser.com/articles/daily/8,6,1,1210,01.html

ReleVents
Whither intellectual property?
By: James Mathewson
December 10, 2001

01/12/10 ReleVents hed: Whither intellectual property? dek: James Rogan, the 
new patent and trademark chief, is not inclined to protect consumers in this 
important area. by James Mathewson 


==========> 01-12-10-NetWorld-DMCA.txt==========

The DMCA goes too far
In the long term, the law could affect computer security.
By Fred von Lohmann
Network World, 12/10/01

              When Congress debated
              the Digital Millennium
              Copyright Act in 1998,
              critics of the bill warned it
              would stifle legitimate


==========> 01-12-10-SJMerc-Napster.txt==========

Posted at 5:10 p.m. PST Monday, Dec. 10, 2001 
SJMercury

Napster, record industry argue over enforcement
BY BEN BERKOWITZ

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online file-sharing service Napster and the
record industry squared off again in federal appeals court on Monday over
the fine points of enforcing the court-ordered restrictions on Napster's
now-idled service.


==========> 01-12-13-NetWorld-IETF-DMCA.txt==========

IETF debates lawsuit risks of U.S. copyright act
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan
Network World Fusion, 12/13/01

The Internet's premier standards-setting
body is concerned that its participants could
be subject to criminal or civil lawsuits under
the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act as
they develop security protocols that can be
used to protect copyrighted materials on the


==========> 01-12-14-SJMerc-Fingerprinting.txt==========

Posted at 10:51 a.m. PST Friday, Dec. 14, 2001
SJ Mercury 

New technology names that song

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Ever hear a song on the radio that
catches your interest, but miss its name?

By the end of next year, a new high-tech tool could solve your problem.



==========> 01-12-25-AP-NetCommercial.txt==========

Tuesday December 25 6:03 AM ET 
Commercialization May Limit Internet
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer 

NEW YORK (AP) - Shannon Burnett's unofficial Web site for ``Buffy the Vampire 
Slayer'' fans used to offer video clips and insights into plot and characters. 

No longer. Corporate lawyers took care of that with a complaint of copyright 
violation. Burnett removed the material, though she believed she had legal 
grounds for using them. 


==========> 01-12-30-SJMerc-KidHackers.txt==========

Posted at 3:45 a.m. PST Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001 
Piracy and hacking prevention efforts should target kids, experts say
BY JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York Times 

When law enforcement agents seized 129 computers in 27 cities recently in a 
coordinated assault on online piracy, they focused much of their effort on 
colleges like Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 
the University of California at Los Angeles.



==========> 02-01-04-CNET-CopyCD.txt==========

Lawmaker: Is CD copy-protection illegal? 
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 4, 2002, 1:20 p.m. PT
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8363449.html?tag=prntfr 

Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning 
to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law. 

On Friday, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., sent a letter to executives of the 


==========> 02-01-06-LATimes-CopyCD.txt==========

January 6, 2002 
CDs That Block Copying May Herald a Revolution
By DAVE WILSON and JON HEALEY,
TIMES STAFF WRITERS

"More Fast and Furious" is more than just a new CD soundtrack from a hit movie. 
It's also a
harbinger of things to come--an indication that technology may soon trump the 
law and change
the way consumers listen to music, watch movies and read books.


==========> 02-01-07-ACMUbiquity-SethJohnson-MSXP.txt==========

Freedom to Think and Speak By Seth Johnson
Under Microsoft's Digital Rights Management operating system, the ability to 
use information freely will be policed at the most intricate level.

In his November 6 essay "You're Free to Think," 
(http://davenet.userland.com/2001/11/06/youreFreeToThink), Dave Winer comments 
that whatever else happens in the ongoing, increasing trend towards policing of 
the public's right to use information and information technology, we are still 
left with the freedom to think for ourselves. He seemed to me to be offering 
this comment as a bare source of solace against the government's increasing 


==========> 02-01-07-Reuters-Boucher-DMCA-MOCA.txt==========

Monday January 7 6:03 PM ET 
Lawmaker Promises Changes to Online Copyright Law
By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman said on Monday he intended to change 
a controversial copyright law to allow consumers to override technologies that 
prevent them from making digital copies of music, movies, and software.

Virginia Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher said he planned to introduce a bill that 
would eliminate the ``anti-circumvention'' clause of the Digital Millennium 


==========> 02-01-07-WashPost-Boucher-DMCA-MOCA.txt==========

Lawmaker Questions CD-Copying Protections
By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
07 Jan 2002, 10:25 AM CST

An influential congressman is expressing concerns that compact-disc 
copy-prevention technologies limit consumers' ability to play discs in certain 
devices, and thwarts their legal rights to make home recordings of music they 
purchase. 



==========> 02-01-08-LATimes-BoucherDMCA.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-000001793jan08.story 

Bill to Protect Right to Copy Digital Files
By DAVE WILSON
TIMES STAFF WRITER
January 8 2002

A congressman who has played a key role in high-tech issues said Monday that he 
will introduce legislation aimed at protecting the right of consumers to make 
copies of digital files, such as songs on a CD.


==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-LessigBroadband.txt==========

Who's Holding Back Broadband? 
Tuesday, January 8, 2002 
By Lawrence Lessig,
Special to The Washington Post 

As the American economy struggles to get out of recession, an important part
of the recovery will be the revival of the country's technology sector. 

Not long ago, in a speech at a summit on Internet development, Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell gave the nation a glimpse of


==========> 02-01-24-WashPost-SSSCA.txt==========

Senate Panel To Consider Web Copyright Protections 
By Staff, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
24 Jan 2002, 4:37 PM CST

The Senate Commerce Committee plans to examine online copyright protections as 
soon as February, though a specific date has not yet been set. 

According to a spokesman for Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, 
D-S.C., the committee also has not yet formulated a specific plan for what the 


==========> 02-01-30-SJMerc-Langberg-ReplayTV4000.txt==========

Posted at 8:20 p.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002 
ReplayTV a future imperfect DVR
BY MIKE LANGBERG
Mercury News Personal Technology Editor 

Sonicblue's new ReplayTV 4000 digital video recorder is a fascinating
glimpse of television's future.

The future, of course, is a nice place to visit. But you wouldn't want to live
there right now.


==========> 02-02-07-GlobeandMail-TMandDomainNames.txt==========

Brands, free speech clash over domains
By MICHAEL GEIST
Thursday, February 7, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B21

 Although most domain name disputes are primarily a matter of trademark law, 
recent experience suggests that cases are increasingly moving beyond issues of 
trademarks toward fundamental questions of freedom of speech.

 Given the conventional wisdom that the United States provides the world's 
strongest free speech protections, it is both surprising and noteworthy that 


==========> 02-02-07-Reuters-HypertestLinkingPatent.txt==========

Linking Patent Goes to Court 
Reuters 
9:30 a.m. Feb. 7, 2002 PST
 
Imagine if one company held the right to collect a fee each time an Internet 
user clicked on a website link and jumped to another Web page. 

It may sound far-fetched, but a U.S. federal court will hear preliminary 
arguments next week to determine if this most elemental of Internet activities 
is the business property of a lone company, protected in the form of a patent. 


==========> 02-02-11-CMP-TooManyPatents.txt==========

U.S. patent debate to pit IP rights vs. competition 
By George Leopold
EE Times
February 11, 2002 (11:53 a.m. EST) 

WASHINGTON  Is the government
issuing too many patents, thereby
stifling competition and innovation? Or
are attempts to lock up the rights to
new technologies merely a function of


==========> 02-02-11-LATimes-StudiosPVRs.txt==========

February 11, 2002 
TECHNOLOGY
Studios Assail ReplayTV Technology
Courts: Lawsuits claim the key functions of personal video recorders violate 
copyrights.
By JON HEALEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER

As the makers of personal video recorders broaden the appeal of their 
revolutionary devices, a group of Hollywood studios is attacking the recorders' 
core functions.


==========> 02-02-11-WashPost-BidenPriacy.txt==========

Senate Chair Urges Stronger Sanctions Against Digital Piracy 
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
11 Feb 2002, 1:17 AM CST

Leaders of associations that represent the music and entertainment industry are 
slated to testify Tuesday at a Senate committee hearing on the increasingly 
global problem of digital piracy. 

Their testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing will dovetail 


==========> 02-02-19-AP-EldredvAshcroft-CTEA.txt==========

Court to Decide on Web Copyrights 
Tue Feb 19,11:08 AM ET 
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 

 WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to intervene in a fight over 
copyrights, deciding whether Congress has sided too heavily with writers and 
other inventors.

  The outcome will determine when hundreds of thousands of books, songs and 
movies will be freely available on the Internet or in digital libraries.


==========> 02-02-20-NYT-SupremeCourt-CR-Case.txt==========

February 20, 2002
Case Could Shift Balance in
Debate on Public Domain
By AMY HARMON

In the annals of the digital copyright wars,
 major media companies facing the threat of
Internet piracy have so far triumphed decisively
over their challengers, who argue that the public's
interest is being sacrificed to provide copyright


==========> 02-02-21-LATimes-98Copyright.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-000013191feb21.story 

Studios May Have the Most to Lose
Courts: The ownership of early depictions of favorite characters and music 
could be at stake.
By HENRY WEINSTEIN, ANN W. O'NEILL and MEG JAMES
TIMES STAFF WRITERS

February 21 2002



==========> 02-02-21-SJMerc-WebcastRoyalties.txt==========

Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2002
Royalty rate set for Webcasts
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

Federal regulators Wednesday set the rate Internet radio stations must pay for 
the right to stream music online -- settling a rancorous, four-year licensing 
dispute between Webcasters and the recording industry.

An arbitration panel appointed by the U.S. Copyright Office recommended online 


==========> 02-02-21-TIME-NapsterOffersMoney.txt==========

Will Music Giants Bite at Napster's Bait?
The music-swapping service offers record companies $1 billion over five years 
to clear the way for a subscription-based service 
BY FRANK PELLEGRINI 
  
  CNN: Napster users mixed over settlement offer

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001

Having failed to change the world for free  legally, anyway  Napster is


==========> 02-02-22-CNETNews-Napster-RecordCoAntitrust.txt==========

Napster court win puts labels in spotlight
By John Borland 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 22, 2002, 4:15 PM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-843521.html 

A federal judge gave file-swapping company Napster a significant win in court 
Friday, ordering new scrutiny of the big record labels' ownership rights to 
music that could affect their own online plans. 



==========> 02-02-22-Newsbytes-Napster-RecordCoAntitrust.txt==========

Latest Napster Ruling Turns Tables On Record Labels 
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
25 Feb 2002, 7:04 AM CST

The recording industry's determination to turn Napster's fate into a warning 
for other would-be music swappers may have backfired last week. 

In a decision that rejected a bid by the world's biggest record companies to be 
declared the hands-down winners in a copyright- infringement lawsuit against 


==========> 02-02-22-Reuters-NapsterMoreTime.txt==========

Posted on Fri, Feb. 22, 2002
Judge hands Napster small victory in copyright lawsuit

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge handed Napster a small victory 
Friday, giving the once high-flying song swap service time to gather evidence 
before ruling on a recording industry request for summary judgment in its 
copyright infringement lawsuit.

  U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel agreed with Napster that more 
time was needed to decide who owns the rights to musical works involved in the 


==========> 02-02-23-TheRegister-Napster-RecordCoAntitrust.txt==========

The Register
Napster judge denounces recording industry
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 23/02/2002 at 06:19 GMT

Record labels suing Napster for copyright infringement are "attempting the
near monopolization of the digital distribution market. The resulting injury
affects both Napster and the public interest," District Court Judge Marilyn Hall
Patel has finally deduced. 



==========> 02-02-24-Reuters-DMCAUnderAttack.txt==========

U.S. digital copyright law under attack 
Sun Feb 24, 2:14 PM ET 
By Elinor Mills Abreu 

   SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 
which has been used to jail a Russian software programmer and stifle Web sites, 
is threatening the free flow of information, civil libertarians say. 

    Their struggle, which will eventually determine the course of how people 
view movies, read books and use other material over the Internet, has attracted 


==========> 02-02-25-LATimes-Biden-Piracy.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-000014321feb25.story 
COMMENTARY
High-Tech Piracy Is Jeopardizing American Jobs
By JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee and the judiciary subcommittee on crime and drugs.

February 25 2002

To borrow a phrase, a mind is a terrible thing to steal. But that is precisely 


==========> 02-02-25-WashPost-RIAA-PiracyCostSales.txt==========

RIAA Blames Digital Music Pirates For Bad Year 
By Adam Creed, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
25 Feb 2002, 6:19 AM CST

The recording industry has singled out Internet piracy as a major, contributing 
factor in its poor music sales during 2001, when U.S. shipments from record 
companies slipped by over 10 percent. 

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it is lost for a 


==========> 02-02-26-DeveloperNews-W3C-Patents.txt==========

Developer News
W3C Removes RAND From Patent Policy
By Thor Olavsrud 

 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday put on the back-burner a proposal 
that would have allowed its specifications to utilize patented technologies for 
which companies could demand royalties. 

 Following a firestorm of controversy that erupted in September after the W3C 
put forward a Patent Policy Framework proposal in August that suggested the 


==========> 02-02-26-WashPost-MorpheusGroksterSuits.txt==========

If Morpheus Is Illegal, So Is The Rest Of The Net - EFF 
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
26 Feb 2002, 10:52 AM CST

Lawyers for makers of the file-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster say 
that, if their clients can be held responsible for illegal copies of music and 
motion pictures, then so too should companies such as Microsoft and AOL Time 
Warner, whose software and Internet connectivity are essential to building 
networks of file traders. 


==========> 02-02-26-Wired-WIPO-Treaties-DMCA.txt==========

Can the World Be Copyrighted? 
By Brad King 
2:00 a.m. Feb. 26, 2002 PST 

Two treaties taking effect this spring would expand the reach of controversial 
American legislation designed to regulate the Internet. 

The World Intellectual Property Organization, an international body of 
government representatives that globalizes laws, announced new guidelines to 
crack down on digital piracy. The WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO 


==========> 02-02-27_GRAMMY-Mag-GreeneSpeech.txt==========

GRAMMY Magazine - February 27, 2002 
The Insidious Virus of Illegal Music Downloading
Michael Greene's address on the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards

(The following is a transcript of Michael Greene's address to the audience
at the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast. Greene is the
President/CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.)

Good evening, and on behalf of the Academy, we hope you are enjoying the
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Perhaps at no other time in our history have


==========> 02-02-27-SJMerc-HousePassesTauzin-Dingelll.txt==========

Posted on Wed, Feb. 27, 2002
House grants big victory to Baby Bells
By Joelle Tessler
Mercury News

  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Wednesday that 
would make it easier for the Baby Bell phone companies to dominate the market 
for high-speed Internet access delivered over phone lines.

  In a major victory for the Bells, the House passed the Tauzin-Dingell bill -- 


==========> 02-02-28-SJMerc-GrammyPres-StopDownloading.txt==========

Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2002
Grammy president urges fans to stop downloading music illegally from the 
Internet
BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  LOS ANGELES - Recording Academy President C. Michael Greene used his speech 
at Wednesday's Grammy Awards to lobby for an end to rampant electronic 
music-swapping, which he said is damaging the recording industry.

  "This illegal file-sharing and ripping of music is pervasive, out of control 


==========> 02-02-28-SJMerc-KaZaA-Lawsuits.txt==========

Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2002
File-sharing company urges Congress to stem copyright suits

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The company that owns and distributes the file-sharing 
software KaZaA has sent a letter to Sen. Joseph Biden and members of the House 
and Senate, urging Congress to halt ``whack-a-mole'' lawsuits that seeks to 
shut down such popular online networks.

  In a letter to Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 
lawyers for Sharman Networks blasted the record industry for trying to put the 


==========> 02-02-28-SJMerc-SW-PiracyGuilty.txt==========

Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2002
Man who led piracy group responsible for billions in lost sales pleads guilty

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A co-leader of an Internet piracy group that 
authorities say was responsible for billions of dollars in lost sales pleaded 
guilty Wednesday to conspiring to commit copyright infringement.

  John Sankus Jr., 28, of Philadelphia, was identified by federal prosecutors 
as a leader of DrinkOrDie, one of the oldest, most sophisticated rings of 
hackers on the Internet.


==========> 02-03-00-GigaLaw-ThumbnailsFairUse.txt==========

http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2002-all/baroni-2002-03-all.html

GigaLaw.com®: "Legal Information for Internet Professionals"
Photos and Fair Use Online: From Penthouse Pets to Kelly's Thumbnails
By Michael L. Baroni

Summary: In a landmark case, a U.S. court of
appeals has ruled that posting small,
"thumbnail"-sized images of another's aesthetic photos on a web
site is a fair use -- and therefore not copyright infringement --


==========> 02-03-00-TechRev-DukePublicDomainConf.txt==========

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/shulman0302.asp

Intellectual-Property Ecology 
Owning the Future  By Seth Shulman   March 2002

      What tree huggers can teach us about the
      public domain of ideas.

 What do bird watchers and bird hunters have in common? The question was
posed by Duke University law professor James Boyle, one of the hosts of an


==========> 02-03-02-SJMerc-TrackingReplayTVUsers.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 02, 2002
SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on thousands 
of digital video recorder users -- monitoring every show they record, every 
commercial they skip and every program they send electronically to a friend.


==========> 02-03-04-UnknownSource-InternetMusic.txt==========

Intellectual Property 
Music Agreement Complicates Drive For Licensing Clarity
by Drew Clark 

An October 2001 agreement between recording labels and music publishers,
promoted as a way to speed the introduction of online services as an
alternative to Napster, has complicated the Copyright Office's desire to
clarify what is legal in the digital music space. 

The agreement between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and


==========> 02-03-04-WashPost-EFF-BarneyParodies.txt==========

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174944.html
 
EFF Blasts Barney The Dinosaur's Copyright Claims 
By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
04 Mar 2002, 5:13 PM CST

Barney loves you. Barney loves me. But Barney just can't stand parody. Or at 
least that's the way the Electronic Frontier Foundation sees it. 



==========> 02-03-05-FindLaw-CopyrightTerm-Eldrdv.Ashcroft.txt==========

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html

THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:
Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, And eldred V. Ashcroft 
By CHRIS SPRIGMAN 
Tuesday, Mar. 05, 2002

Unless you earn your living as an intellectual property lawyer, you probably 
don't know that the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Eldred v. Ashcroft, 
a case that will test the limits of Congress's power to extend the term of 


==========> 02-03-05-HarvardPoliticalRev-ValentiViews.txt==========

http://www.hpronline.org/news/347207.html?mkey=628413

Valenti's Views
The MPAA president and former LBJ aide opens up on a range of topics
By Derek Slate
Harvard Political Review

Jack Valenti has led a prolific political life. A decorated World War II pilot,
Valenti served as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson until 1966.
Since then, he has served as the President of the Motion Picture Association


==========> 02-03-05-SJMerc-GnutellaUseIncreases.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/2798008.htm

Posted on Tue, Mar. 05, 2002
Morpheus users move to Gnutella Web music network

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of Internet users turned to the little-known 
Gnutella network over the weekend to download free music and movies, throwing 
up another possible roadblock for media companies fighting unauthorized 
downloads of copyrighted material.



==========> 02-03-06-FinancialTimes-WIPO.txt==========

http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020306001747

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: Copyright protection reinforced WIPO
TREATY RULES UPDATE LEGISLATION GOVERNING WORKS
CARRIED ON THE INTERNET:
Financial Times; Mar 6, 2002
By FRANCES WILLIAMS

A landmark international treaty reinforcing the protection of copyright in
cyberspace comes into force today amid controversy in the US and Europe


==========> 02-03-07-SJMerc-NapsterNeedsProof.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2810336.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 07, 2002
Record label copyright proof due in Napster case

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge gave the record labels suing Napster 
until Thursday to produce documents proving they own the copyrights to 213 
songs that once traded for free over the song-swap service.

  U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ordered the labels to provide 


==========> 02-03-08-EFF-MorpheusP2PFileSharing.txt==========

EFFector       Vol. 15, No. 7,      March 8, 2002      editors@eff.org 
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424 
                                                                       
COURT SETS JURY TRIAL IN MORPHEUS PEER-TO-PEER SOFTWARE CASE
JUDGE DELAYS DECISION ON BETAMAX VCR DEFENSE
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

Los Angeles - U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson today delayed
ruling on whether the noninfringing uses of the Morpheus peer-to-peer
software product should shield it from a copyright lawsuit filed by 28


==========> 02-03-08-InfoWorld-DMCA-OpenSourceServer.txt==========

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/11/020311opsource.xml

March 8, 2002 01:01 PM PST 
Some games aren't fun 
Russell Pavlicek 

A TUG-OF-WAR is in progress between users of proprietary software and the
software companies. If you cannot control the software you use, control of your
business is at risk. Recent events demonstrate how the Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act


==========> 02-03-11-Newsweek-SSSCA.txt==========

"The Customer Is Always Wrong" 
Music and film moguls, and a few senators, think fans are thievesand want to 
cripple technology to stop you from making copies   
By Steven Levy
NEWSWEEK 

        March 11 issue   There was something decidedly
enron-esque about the hearing last week before the Senate Commerce
Committee. No potential illegalities, mind you. But you had Disney CEO
Michael Eisner and News Corp. president Peter Chernin speaking on behalf


==========> 02-03-12-LATimes-Advice-for-MovieIndustry.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-000018088mar12.story

THE BIG PICTURE PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
A Music Lesson on Piracy for Hollywood
By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
March 12 2002

Tom Bonadeo noticed something funny last summer. The traffic patterns began to 
change on the broadband service he oversees as chief technology officer for NTC 
Communications, a firm that wires hundreds of apartment complexes near college


==========> 02-03-14-NYT-Tech-vs-Entertainment.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/14PROT.html
?ex=1017164664&ei=1&en=7e9c4ea658879634

March 14, 2002
Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech
By AMY HARMON

      Leaders of two of the nation's most
      prominent industries, entertainment and
technology, have begun publicly sniping at each


==========> 02-03-14-WSJ-Mossberg-DRM-ConsumerRights.txt==========

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20020314.html

Personal Technology 
March 14, 2002 
DigitalConsumer Takes Up the Fight Against Copyright Plans in Congress
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG

A crucial debate is shaping up in Congress and in private industry about how 
freely you, the consumer, will be able to use digital music and video in the 
future.


==========> 02-03-19-LATimes-CopyrightWars.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-000020009mar19.story

EDITORIAL
Copyright War: Find a Truce
March 19 2002

A full-fledged war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley is breaking out over 
digital copyright protection, but it isn't even entertaining. In the past few 
weeks, entertainment and computer industry executives have been facing off 
before Congress to excoriate each other rather than reach a solution together 


==========> 02-03-21-SJMerc-Google-Scientology.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2910195.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 21, 2002
Google pulls, replaces Web page critical of Scientology

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. restored a Web site critical of the 
Church of Scientology on its Internet search engine Thursday while free speech 
advocates slammed the company for removing the site in the first place.

  Google said the company had only removed certain pages from the site because 


==========> 02-03-22-CNetNews-DigitalDownloadPatent.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-867135.html

Court pares back digital-download patent
By Gwendolyn Mariano 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 22, 2002, 3:00 PM PT

Intouch Group has lost a round in its bid to collect more licensing fees for 
its technology, with a federal judge invalidating parts of a controversial 
digital download patent. 


==========> 02-03-22-Independent-DNAasMusic-IP.txt==========

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=277097

DNA codes may be protected as 'music'
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
22 March 2002

A biotechnology company is following in the footsteps of Lennon and McCartney 
by using the law on music copyright to protect a piece of work – only this time 
it is not a pop song they are trying to reserve but a sequence of DNA.



==========> 02-03-25-BBC-CriticsAttackOpenAccessJournals.txt==========

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885931.stm

Monday, 25 March, 2002, 11:18 GMT 
Critics attack net journal initiative
Campaigners want free access to research results
By Ivan Noble 
BBC News Online 

Critics of a project to set up alternative open-access scientific journals on 
the internet say the idea is ill-conceived and will undermine quality. 


==========> 02-03-25-FinancialTimes-Eisner-IP.txt==========

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3H10TP8ZC&
live=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZFKOXOA0C&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&subheading=
information%20technology

Abe Lincoln and the internet pirates

The great Emancipator's forthright defence of intellectual property rights 
holds true today, says Michael Eisner

Published: March 25 2002 19:36 | Last Updated: March 25 2002 21:57


==========> 02-03-25-SJMerc-NapsterMustStopAllInfringingFiles.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/2935172.htm

Posted on Mon, Mar. 25, 2002
Napster loses ruling on court's shutdown order
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  The record industry, continuing its legal steamroller over online music 
pioneer Napster, scored another victory Monday.



==========> 02-03-25-USACM-GeorgiaDatabaseBill.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/usacm/Georgia_Database_Bill.htm

March 25, 2002
The Honorable Robert Reichert
Chairman, Judiciary Subcommittee
Georgia House of Representatives
601 Legislative Office Building
Atlanta, GA  30334

Dear Chairman Reichert:


==========> 02-03-26-Soros-OpenAccesProject-ResearchLiterature.txt==========

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

Budapest Open Access Initiative
1864 signatures have been added to the initiative.

Budapest Open Access Initiative 

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an
unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists 
and


==========> 02-03-27-SJMerc-SharewarePiracy.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2948101.htm

Posted on Wed, Mar. 27, 2002
'Casual piracy' undercuts shareware concept
By Rob Pegoraro
Washington Post

  How honest are people when they think nobody's looking?

  The Internet is a fine place to find out: The near-frictionless ease of 


==========> 02-03-28-Reuters-DutchCourtClearsKaZaA.txt==========

http://www.totaltele.com/vprint.asp?txtID=50430

Dutch court clears Web music swapping
By Lucas van Grinsven and Bernhard
Warner, Reuters
28 March 2002
   
Internet software firm given go ahead to distribute program in a blow to the 
music industry.



==========> 02-03-29-SJMerc-CharterSchoolIllegallyCopiesCoursest.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2964490.htm

Posted on Fri, Mar. 29, 2002
Publishing company claims Pennsylvania cyber school stole course materials

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An online publishing company Friday sued a charter school 
that offers classes only over the Internet, claiming the school illegally 
copied course materials without paying for them.

  The federal lawsuit was filed by New Forum Publishers, which offers online 


==========> 02-03-29-USACM-CBDTPA-Letter.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/usacm/Legislation/Holllings_S2048.htm

March 29, 2002
The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
SR-254 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.  20510

Dear Chairman Hollings:



==========> 02-04-01-CNETNews-KazaaStealthP2PNetwork.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa
By John Borland 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 1, 2002, 5:35 PM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html 

A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads 
of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" 


==========> 02-04-04-USAToday-DigitalPiracy-CBDTPA.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/money/covers/2002-04-05-music-piracy.htm

04/04/2002 - Updated 09:04 PM ET 
Piracy pillages music industry
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY 

NEW YORK  Crystal Wong is the kind of person who petrifies
entertainment executives.

The 24-year-old San Mateo, Calif. resident, who handles human resources at


==========> 02-04-08-SFChronicle-Technolgy-LawReview.txt==========

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/08/BU1
40716.DTL&type=tech

Proposed copyright law raises controversy 
COPYRIGHT'S NEXT CHAPTER 
Latest legislation tries to control the technology itself 
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, April 8, 2002 
©2002 San Francisco Chronicle 



==========> 02-04-10-SeattlePI-Authors-AmazonStopUsedBookSales.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/65873_amazon10.shtml

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Authors rally against Amazon's online selling of used books 
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Authors are rebelling against new efforts by Amazon.com to spur sales of used 
books, a practice that has become a major source of revenue for Amazon but pays 


==========> 02-04-15-Ellis-CD-DVD-NewBusinessModels.txt==========

Subject: Record Companies...
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:44:27 -0700
From: Bob Ellis
To: tweber@wsj.com

I enjoyed your column in the 4/15 WSJ and agree with you that there are
many things the record companies and movie studios could do to win
consumers' business for digital media.

Although you briefly mentioned price, I believe there is much more that


==========> 02-04-15-Salon-EldredvAshcroft-CopyrightExtension.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/15/copyright_defense/index.html

In defense of copyright
A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to
review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong.

By Damien Cave

April 15, 2002  |  Morton David Goldberg's name is hardly a household word for 
technology geeks worried about the corporate drive to take ownership of 


==========> 02-04-17-USAToday-HighDefMultimediaInterface.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020417/4034233s.htm

A deal against digital piracy Hardware makers, studios in accord
By Mike Snider
USA TODAY

A group of electronics makers and movie studios moved the rollout of digital
TV a step ahead Tuesday with a preliminary agreement on copy protection
for high-definition broadcasts and digital TV sets.



==========> 02-04-21-Salon-EldredvAshcroft-Interview.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/21/web_copyright/index.html

Mickey Mouse vs. The People
How an antiquarian bookseller and a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan ended up before the 
Supreme Court.

By Damien Cave

Feb. 21, 2002  |  Neither Eric Eldred nor Laura Bjorklund intended to become 
warriors in the battle over copyright. They simply wanted to publish old books; 


==========> 02-05-00-Business2-CBDTPA-HollywoodvsHighTech.txt==========

http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39428,FF.html

  Hollywood vs. High-Tech 
  By: James Lardner 
  Issue: May 2002
  Print Article | Email This Article  
   
  Disney's Michael Eisner and others say Hollywood will defend its intellectual 
property at all costs. Silicon Valley eminences like Andy Grove say those are 
fightin' words -- if it means trampling consumers' rights and squashing 


==========> 02-05-01-CNETNews-BidenBill-Counterfeit.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2102-1023-896676.html

Copyright holders praise proposed bill
By Lisa M. Bowman 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 1, 2002, 1:45 PM PT

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has introduced a bill that would expand counterfeit 
laws to cover digital music and movies and make it illegal to replicate 
authentication measures on copyrighted materials. 


==========> 02-05-03-EFF-CourtOrdersReplayTVtoSpy.txt==========

May 3, 2002

Court Orders ReplayTV to Spy on Customers for Movie Studios
Entertainment Industry Demands Massive Privacy Invasion

A court has ordered ReplayTV to rewrite its personal video recorder software to 
include spy ware that will capture every click from every customer's remote, 
gathering personal data detailing what each ReplayTV owner watches, skips, and 
shares over the Internet. Once in place, the data gathered with this tool will 
be sent to Hollywood studios and TV networks for use as ammunition in a pending 


==========> 02-05-04-SJMerc-DG-MediaControl.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3200804.htm

Posted on Sat, May. 04, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Paranoia, stupidity and greed ganging up on the public
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  Dear Reader: 



==========> 02-05-07-SJMerc-BPDG-HDTV.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3218129.htm

Posted on Tue, May. 07, 2002
Cory Doctorow: Hollywood wants a stranglehold on your digital technology
By Cory Doctorow

  Digital television is coming, which should be cause for celebration. 
High-definition digital TV will deliver fantastic picture and sound.

  But because digital TV broadcasts will be, well, digital, this also gives the 


==========> 02-05-12-NandoTimes-PublicDomainInfo.txt==========

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/399236p-3178262c.html

Technology: Public domain info under threat, say groups 
Copyright © 2002
United Press International 
By SCOTT R. BURNELL, United Press International 

WASHINGTON (May 12, 2002 10:39 a.m. EDT) - The Internet-powered
explosion of easily available data has spawned a backlash of copyright and
patent activity that threatens information in the public domain, speakers at


==========> 02-05-13-BusinessWeek-Lessig-FutureEBusiness.txt==========

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm

MAY 13, 2002 
SPECIAL REPORT -- THE FUTURE OF E-BUSINESS 
Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over 

If the media giants have their way, the Net freedom fighter says, content will 
be
rigidly controlled and innovation stifled 



==========> 02-05-13-WSJ-PamSamuelson.txt==========

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1020884132662876320,00.html

SPECIAL REPORT: TECHNOLOGY
The Legal Theorist
What is intellectual property in the age of PCs and the Internet?
Pamela Samuelson thinks she knows
By PHYLLIS PLITCH

Right from the start, personal computers were a lightning rod for copyright
battles. First it was software programs that used similar design elements.


==========> 02-05-15-SonicBlue-SnoopingOrderStayed.txt==========

http://www.sonicblue.com/company/press.asp?ID=551

SONICblue Granted Stay of Judge Magistrate’s Ruling
Stay Defers Previous Ruling Requiring SonicBlue to Monitor ReplayTV 4000 Usage

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 15, 2002 – SonicBlue™ Incorporated (Nasdaq: SBLU) 
announced today that Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has granted the company’s 
request for a stay of a Magistrate Judge’s April 26 ruling in the Paramount 
Pictures Corp., et al. v. ReplayTV, Inc., et al. case, which requested the 
company monitor its customers’ viewing habits.


==========> 02-05-16-CreativeCommons-SharingInfo.txt==========

http://www.creativecommons.org/

You're making a movie and need still images. You're starting out as a 
photographer and want to spread the word. You're teaching a course and need 
materials. You've written an article and you want people to analyze it. You're 
building a website and need graphics. You're a digital artist who wants to 
collaborate with other artists. You're performing a concert and need a 
symphony. You've composed a symphony and want people to perform it. How will 
Creative Commons help you? 



==========> 02-05-16-NYT-Canada-FeeOnRecordableMedia.txt==========

Broad Tax Sought on Music Storage in Canada
May 16, 2002
By IAN AUSTEN

OTTAWA -- IN the United States, the recording industry has dealt with
music copying mostly through legal action and the development of
anti-copying technology. In Canada, however, the industry is going after
cash.

If a group representing musicians, composers and record companies has


==========> 02-05-19-SJMerc-Altnet-FileSharingDRM.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3298227.htm

Posted on Sun, May. 19, 2002
New Internet file-sharing system Altnet designed to give artists greater control

  NEW YORK (AP) - Ace Ha and Sammy Brazil of the emerging hip-hop group 
MaddWest don't mind listeners passing around their music for free over the 
Internet. All they want is a little control.

  The Altnet file-sharing system launches Monday to give MaddWest and other 


==========> 02-05-21-SJMerc-LC-RejectsWebcastingRoyalityRates.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3307332.htm

Posted on Tue, May. 21, 2002
Librarian of Congress rejects proposed royalty rates for Internet music 
broadcasts

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Librarian of Congress has rejected proposed royalty 
rates that would have charged Internet broadcasters based on each Web user that 
listens in.



==========> 02-05-22-SJMerc-KazaaQuits.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3316962.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 22, 2002
Music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kazaa, the company behind a popular file-swapping Web 
site, said it will fold because it cannot afford to defend itself against 
copyright infringement charges brought by the major studios and labels.

  The Dutch company maintains it has not violated any copyright laws by 


==========> 02-05-22-SJMerc-Valenti-Cannes.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3316627.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 22, 2002
Valenti comes to Cannes to push for worldwide alliance on movie piracy

  CANNES, France (AP) - As digital cameras and projectors revolutionize the 
movie business, the head of the U.S. film industry is urging governments 
worldwide to band together and crack down on a growing side effect of the 
digital wave: piracy.



==========> 02-05-23-Salon-FightCloud-FreeCDs.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/23/fightcloud/index.html

Give it away now
Music start-up FightCloud.com offers CDs free, but says it's making a profit.
How can that be?
By Thomas Claburn

May 23, 2002  |  "You want to stop piracy?" asks Jack Scalfani, CEO of 
independent music site FightCloud.com. "Make your CDs affordable. I'm not going 
to spend three hours turning and burning a CD ... if it's an $8 CD. I'm going 


==========> 02-05-24-NYT-HollywoodvsTechIndustry.txt==========

May 24, 2002
Silicon Valley Grows Up
By CLAIRE TRISTRAM

SAN JOSE, Calif.  On some stretches of Highway 880, curling around
the east side of San Francisco Bay, you can drive by row after row of
pristine office buildings, constructed just before the bust, never
occupied by a single tenant. These days, Silicon Valley's traffic, like
the valley's ambitions, isn't as ferocious as it used to be. Sometimes
it's even possible to get from San Francisco to San Jose in less than 90


==========> 02-05-25-SJMerc-RIAA-SuesAudiogalaxy.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/companies/napster/3336947.htm

Posted on Sat, May. 25, 2002
Music industry sues Napster-like Internet firm, Audiogalaxy

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - The recording and music publishing industries extended 
their legal pursuit of online music swapping firms Friday, suing Audiogalaxy 
for copyright infringement.



==========> 02-05-25-SJMerc-RIAASuesAudiogalaxy.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3336947.htm

Posted on Sat, May. 25, 2002
Music industry sues Napster-like Internet firm, Audiogalaxy

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - The recording and music publishing industries extended 
their legal pursuit of online music swapping firms Friday, suing Audiogalaxy 
for copyright infringement.

  The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music 


==========> 02-05-27-FortuneMag-HollywoodvsHighTech.txt==========

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207975&page=3

DIGITAL DUSTUP
'This Is War'
Should the computer industry protect Hollywood from digital theft? The guns are 
drawn. 
FORTUNE May 27, 2002
By Devin Leonard 

Nothing has stirred up Hollywood lately like Ted Waitt's talented Holstein.


==========> 02-05-28-CNETNews-GatewaysWaittTakesOnHollywood.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-923477.html

Ted Waitt takes on Hollywood
By Charles Cooper , Staff Writer
May 28, 2002, 12:00 PM PT

If he finds himself dining at Spago anytime soon, Gateway CEO Ted Waitt isn't 
likely to receive any bear hugs from the Hollywood moguls who favor this 
perennial Los Angeles hot spot. 



==========> 02-05-29-SJMerc-Consumers-OnlinePiracyOK.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3363169.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 29, 2002
Consumers' views vary on software piracy
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON - More than half of all U.S. Internet users regularly download 
commercial software without paying for it, but only 12 percent see such actions 


==========> 02-05-29-SJMerc-IndependentOnlineMusicSvcs.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3363372.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 29, 2002
Mike Langberg: Independents getting into online music
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

  The Big Five record labels are finally getting some much needed competition 
in the emerging business of making music legally available online.


==========> 02-05-29-Slate-MusicSharingServices.txt==========

http://slate.msn.com//?id=2066277&device=

Post-Napster Future
Which music-sharing service is right for you?
By Bill Barnes
Updated Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 1:32 PM PT 

                          Years from now, I hope to plop my
                          grandchildren on my knee and tell
                          them the story of Napster, the service


==========> 02-05-29-Ubiquity-ContentValue-XML.txt==========

Reestablishing the Value of Content
By Gerry McGovern
Everything has a cost, even so-called "free" content.

The irony of the current information economy is that much content
has lost its value. The Web was ushered in waving the banner,
"Information wants to be free." For the Web, and the information
economy in general, to advance and mature, we need to reestablish
the value of content.



==========> 02-05-30-USACM-Grove-EldredvAshcroft.txt==========

USACM-Grove May 30, 2002

As you may be aware, USACM has signed an Amici Curiae brief in support of
the petitioners in the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of the Eldred v.
Ashcroft challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA).  The brief
argues that the CTEA extends the term of copyright protection in a manner
that harms the public domain.  Of particular concern to USACM, the brief
seeks to educate the Court regarding the incremental evolution of computer
software development and the potential damaging affects of CTEA on
continued innovation of software and digital computing.


==========> 02-05-31-CCIA-BPDGCochairReport-Comments.txt==========

CCIA Statement on the BPDG co-chairs final report
May 31, 2002

The Computer & Communications Industry Association has been monitoring the BPDG 
process for several months. During that time we have been keenly aware of the 
difficulties of creating a digital rights management system that could protect 
high-definition content while at the same time protecting fair use for 
consumers and future innovators alike.

The co-chairs report purports to do so, but falls far short, in part because of 


==========> 02-06-03-ChillingEffects-ClearinghouseWebsite.txt==========

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Chilling Effects
Clearinghouse

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Harvard, Stanford,
Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and
University of Maine law school clinics.



==========> 02-06-03-SJMerc-SonicBlueDataCollectionOverturned.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3391705.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 03, 2002
SONICblue says viewer tracking ruling overturned

  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - SONICblue Inc. Monday said a federal court 
overturned a ruling that would have forced the company to track the television 
viewing habits of customers using its ReplayTV digital video recorder amid 
concerns about copyright violations.



==========> 02-06-03-SJMerc-VintCerf-GovtBroadbandPolicies.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3392998.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 03, 2002
Government must unleash faster Net connections, Cerf says
BY VIKAS BAJAJ
The Dallas Morning News

  ATLANTA - (KRT) - One of the pioneers of the Internet said Monday that 
government must get involved for speedier connections to the Net to reach the 
masses.


==========> 02-06-04-SJMerc-SonicBlueDataCollectionOverturned.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3396244.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 04, 2002
Judge says SonicBlue won't have to monitor customers
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  A federal judge in Los Angeles has overturned a ruling that would have 
required SonicBlue to write special software to monitor the television viewing 
habits of users of its advanced digital video recorders.


==========> 02-06-06-SJMerc-EFF-SonicBlueUsersCopyingLawsuit.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3418583.htm

Posted on Thu, Jun. 06, 2002
ReplayTV owners file suit to protect users' rights
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Five users of an advanced digital video recorder sued Thursday to make the 
consumer's voice heard in the big-stakes legal battle between media titans and 
technology companies.


==========> 02-06-07-WashPost-EFF-SonicBlueUsersCopyingLawsuit.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9087-2002Jun6.html

Copyfight Renewal
Owners of Digital Devices Sue to Assert the Right to Record 
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 7, 2002; Page E01 

Looking at how Hollywood has been trying to
protect itself from piracy, the cure would seem


==========> 02-06-10-ZDNet-SimonsFeltenStanfordPPClass.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-934602.html

Software programmers hit the law books
By Lisa M. Bowman 
Special to ZDNet News
June 10, 2002, 10:10 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-934602.html 

STANFORD, Calif.--It's not every computer science class that opens with a poem. 



==========> 02-06-11-SJMerc-IFPI-RealCDPiracy.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3448241.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 11, 2002
Music industry says worldwide piracy up sharply

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of bootlegged music grew by nearly 50 percent 
worldwide last year, an industry group said Tuesday, as pirates seized on a new 
recordable-CD format to churn out 1.9 million illegally duplicated units in 
2001.



==========> 02-06-12-BusinessWeek-CableInternet-TieredPricing.txt==========

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020612_1108.htm

JUNE 12, 2002 
NEWS ANALYSIS 
Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated music and 
movies a prohibitively costly habit 

Jon, a computer programmer, is exactly the
kind of music lover the Recording Industry


==========> 02-06-17-SJMerc-Audiogalaxy-NMPA-RIAA-Settlement.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3490753.htm

Posted on Mon, Jun. 17, 2002
Napster clone settles with recording industry on music use
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  The recording industry scored another victory over illicit online 
music-swapping services Monday, reaching a swift out-of-court settlement with 
Audiogalaxy that requires the ``Napster-like clone'' to halt unauthorized music 


==========> 02-06-20-SJMerc-LC-CRArbRoyPanel-WebcastingRoyalties.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3513708.htm

Posted on Thu, Jun. 20, 2002
Cut in Webcast royalty rates angers both sides
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  The Librarian of Congress on Thursday cut in half the royalty rate Webcasters 
must pay to stream music over the Internet, a compromise that made almost no 
one happy.


==========> 02-06-24-Cryptome-TCPA-GPL.txt==========

http://cryptome.org/tcpa-rja2.htm

24 June 2002 
From: Nomen Nescio
Subject: Re: Ross's TCPA paper 

> I must confess that after reading the paper I am quite relieved to
> finally have solid confirmation that at least one other person has
> realized (outside the authors and proponents of the bill) that the
> Hollings bill, while failing to mention TCPA anywhere in the text of the


==========> 02-06-24-InfoWorld-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/24/020624hnpalladium.xml

June 24, 2002 11:32 AM 
Microsoft plans new security system in future Windows 
By Sam Costello and Peter Sayer 

MICROSOFT WANTS TO change the fundamental architecture of the PC,
adding security hardware to a future release of its Windows operating system, 
the
company acknowledged Monday, after a media report and an analyst briefed by the


==========> 02-06-24-TheRegister-2-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html

The register
MS to micro-manage your computer
By Richard Forno
Posted: 24/06/2002 at 05:04 GMT

A recent MSNBC article by techno-pundit Steven Levy discusses
Microsoft's plans for a new computer operating environment
(code-named "Palladium") that links hardware, software, and data into a neat


==========> 02-06-24-TheRegister-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html

The Register
MS DRM OS, retagged 'secure OS' to ship with Longhorn?
By John Lettice
Posted: 24/06/2002 at 08:59 GMT

The Microsoft Secure PC project is rolling out, and could be with us as early
as the next major version of Windows, Longhorn. The whole idea of a
computer that just plain won't let you steal other people's stuff is of course a


==========> 02-06-25-HowardBerman-P2PPiracy.txt==========

http://www.house.gov/berman/p2p062502.html

Speech by the Honorable Howard L. Berman to the Computer and Communications 
Industry Association  Regarding Solutions to Peer to Peer Piracy 
June 25, 2002

 Thank you for inviting me to address you today.  I know it is a difficult 
time for many in the technology sector to focus on issues other than survival.  
Further, with so many issues critical to national security on the congressional 
agenda, it is difficult for policymakers to focus on the future of technology.  


==========> 02-06-25-TheRegister-Palladium-GPL.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html

The Register
MS to eradicate GPL, hence Linux
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 25/06/2002 at 22:30 GMT

Yesterday, as we all know, Microsoft fed an 'exclusive' story about its new
'Palladium' DRM/PKI Trust Machine to Newsweek hack Steven Levy (a guy
who writes without irony of "high-level encryption"), presumably because they


==========> 02-06-26-ExtremeTech-MS-Palladium-AMD-MotherboardDesign.txt==========

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,282114,00.asp

June 26, 2002 
Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design 
By  Mark Hachman 

  A two-year-old white paper authored by AMD and encryption firm Wave Systems
  may offer additional clues to the design of PCs incorporating Palladium,
  Microsoft's new security initiative. 



==========> 02-06-26-RossAnderson-TCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt==========

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions 

Version 0.1 26 June 2002 

1. What are TCPA and Palladium? 

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), an initiative 
led by Intel. Their website is here. Their stated goal is `a new computing 


==========> 02-06-26-Wired-DenmarkDeepLinkingLawsuit.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53501,00.html

Deep Linking's Legal Link on Hold 
By Farhad Manjoo 
11:55 a.m. June 26, 2002 PDT 

After two days of hearings, a Danish court has delayed making a decision in a 
closely watched case that could determine the legality of "deep linking" in 
Denmark and other European Union countries. 



==========> 02-06-26-ZDNet-CongBerman-RecordCompaniesHackP2PSites.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939433.html

Lawmaker: Let studios hack P2P sites
By John Borland 
Special to ZDNet News
June 26, 2002, 4:50 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939433.html 

A California congressman is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, 
such as


==========> 02-06-27-ECommerceTimes-TelecomReformNeeded.txt==========

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020627/tc_nf/18412

 Analysts: Broadband Competition a 'Firestorm' 
 Thu Jun 27, 1:37 PM ET 
 Tim McDonald, www.EcommerceTimes.com 

 In an analysis released Thursday criticizing the U.S. Federal Communications 
Commission ( news - web sites), market research company Gartner Dataquest ( 
NYSE: IT - news) said a "radical reform" of telecom policy is needed if the 
rollout of high-speed Internet ( news - external web site) services, or 


==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-MusicIndustrysSpoofFiles.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm

Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002
Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Major record labels have launched an aggressive new guerrilla assault on the 
underground music networks, flooding online swapping services with bogus copies 
of popular songs.


==========> 02-06-27_SJMerc-WebcastingRoyaltiesTooHigh.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3559843.htm

Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002
Webcasting pioneer: Royalty rates set high to cut competition
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  A Webcasting pioneer who helped strike a key deal that influenced the rate 
all other Internet radio stations would pay the recording industry admits he 


==========> 02-06-27-WashPost-MS-Palladium.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51780-2002Jun26.html

Microsoft Wants Security Hard-Wired in Your Computer 
By Leslie Walker
Thursday, June 27, 2002; Page E01 

It's tough to plug holes in a ship's hull once it is at sea, or to reattach an 
airplane's wing in flight. Yet that's akin to what the computer industry has 
been trying to do with security: append layer after layer of protection onto 
the world's increasingly connected computer networks, all as one big 


==========> 02-06-30-SJMerc-RecordIndustryChanging.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3578189.htm

  Posted on Sun, Jun. 30, 2002
  Record industry changing tune on Internet
  By Dawn C. Chmielewski
  Mercury News

  Two deals that both broaden the selection of music available through online 
services and allow consumers to buy tracks cheaply over the Internet signal the 
recording industry's growing acceptance of online music distribution.


==========> 02-07-00-IEEESpectrum-CopyProtection.txt==========

IEEE Spectrum Editorial
July 2002
"Is It Illegal to Skip The Ads in This Magazine"

Some representatives of the entertainment industry would probably argue
that it is. And in a desperate bid not to have to rethink their business
models in the face of increasingly sophisticated digital content
distribution, the industry is turning to the courts and the U.S.
Congress in hopes of turning back time and technology. 
  


==========> 02-07-00-IEEESpectrum-FreeOnlineEqualsGreaterSales.txt==========

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/jul02/webs.html

Lost and Found: Media Sales 
Movies, records, and books sometimes sell even better when they're also 
available online for free 
By Steven M. Cherry, Senior Associate Editor 

Two weeks before its 16 May theatrical release, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of 
the Clones appeared on Internet file-sharing networks such as Gnutella and 
KaZaA. Pirated copies also showed up on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which can be 


==========> 02-07-01-Newsweek-MS-Palladium-DRM.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1

The Big Secret
An exclusive first look at Microsoft’s ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the 
personal computer to ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights. 
Will you buy it? 
By Steven Levy
NEWSWEEK

July 1 issue   In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a


==========> 02-07-01-SJMerc-MoreMusicOnListen.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3581020.htm

  Posted on Mon, Jul. 01, 2002
  Listen inks deal with fifth major label for more online music

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Listen.com announced Monday that its online music 
service, Rhapsody, has inked a deal to stream music content from a fifth major 
recording company, Universal Music Group.

  Rhapsody now boasts selections from each of the five major labels, something 


==========> 02-07-03-Cryptome-DOC-DRM-Workshop.txt==========

http://cryptome.org/ta070302.txt

3 July 2002
Source: 
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
[Federal Register: July 3, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 128)]
[Notices] [Page 44597]
>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr03jy02-41]
[[Page 44597]]



==========> 02-07-05-SJMerc-NewsboosterBarred-DeepLinking.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3606498.htm

  Posted on Fri, Jul. 05, 2002
  Web site barred from linking to Danish newspaper Web sites

  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Challenging the World Wide Web's fundamental 
premise of linking, a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop 
linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers.

  Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in 


==========> 02-07-08-ActiveWin-PalladiumExplained-TCPA.txt==========

http://www.activewin.com/articles/2002/pd.shtml

Palladium Details
Written By: Seth Schoen
Date: July 8th, 2002

Peter Biddle at Microsoft began thinking around 1997 about how to
protect his bits when they were on someone else's computer. (He was
Microsoft's representative at CPTWG and in the DVD-CCA, and was
somewhat skeptical of the technical efficacy of software-based DRM.) 


==========> 02-07-08-AtNewYork-Boucher-FairUseFight.txt==========

http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1381471

AtNewYork
Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight
July 8, 2002

NEW YORK -- U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, moving to strengthen "fair use" 
provisions under federal copyright law, said he is introducing a bill that 
would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs.



==========> 02-07-08-BostonGlobe-TCPA-Palladium.txt==========

http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/upgrade/2002/0708.html

Beware the gotcha in new Intel feature
By Hiawatha Bray, 07/08/02    

Remember the heartwarming spectacle of a few months ago, when mighty Intel
Corp. stood tall against a plan by the big media companies to seize control of
our personal computers? Well, it turns out that Intel, Microsoft Corp., and a
host of other technology companies are hard at work on next-generation
computers that may give the media moguls pretty much what they want. 


==========> 02-07-08-LATimes-MinorRecordLabelsUseP2P.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-fileshare8jul08.story

Labels See Perks in File Sharing
Music: Independent record companies embrace 'peer-to-peer' networks as a boon 
to CD sales.
By JON HEALEY
TIMES STAFF WRITER
July 8 2002

Like millions of other music lovers, Martin Hall misses the pioneering service 


==========> 02-07-08-PCWorld-MSPalladiumDiscussionOpen.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102473,00.asp

Microsoft Security Chip Open to Discussion
Software giant says info about Palladium was released too soon, and that the 
plan is subject to change.
Gillian Law, IDG News Service
Monday, July 08, 2002

BARCELONA -- Microsoft would be prepared to license the intellectual property 
for its proposed Palladium security chip to any software manufacturer, but 


==========> 02-07-09-JanisIan-DownloadingMusicGood.txt==========

http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

THE INTERNET DEBACLE - AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Janis Ian
Originally written for Performing Songwriter Magazine 
* Shortly after this article was turned in, Michael Greene resigned as 
president of NARAS.

"The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay... Anyone who thinks otherwise 
should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history." (Janis Ian, 


==========> 02-07-09-RossAnderson-UpdatedTCPA-PalladiumFAQs.txt==========

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
Version 1.0 - 9 July 2002
Ross Anderson 

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by 
Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that 
will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that 
Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will 


==========> 02-07-11-CNETNews-CobleBermanFairUseRestrictionsBill.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943134.html

Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 11, 2002, 11:35 AM PT

WASHINGTON--Legislators are readying a bill that could sharply limit Americans' 
rights relating to copying music, taping TV shows, and transferring files 
through the Internet. 


==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641813.htm

  Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002
  EarthLink hopes to boost broadband demand with digital music service
  By Dawn C. Chmielewski
  Mercury News

  Internet providers have finally recognized the true lesson of Napster: that 
online music will drive broadband adoption faster than you can say, ``Stop, 
thief!''


==========> 02-07-12-SJMerc-DigitalTVRecordersCouldEndFreeTV.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3652830.htm

  Posted on Fri, Jul. 12, 2002
  Kellner: Digital recorders could end free TV

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Television viewers could face paying for channels 
they now receive free if digital video recorders kill commercials, said Jamie 
Kellner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting System.

  The wider use of systems like TiVo and ReplayTV, which allow viewers to 


==========> 02-07-12-USACM-BunnerBrief.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/usacm/Alerts/BunnerBrief.htm

USACM Files Brief in California Case: DVD-CCA v. Brunner
July 12, 2002

Seeking to educate the California Supreme Court regarding the critical 
importance of reverse engineering to the legitimate work of researchers and 
technologists, the USACM recently signed an amicus brief in support of Bunner 
in his appeal of lower court's ruling in the DVD-Copy Control Association 
(DVDCCA) v. Bunner case.


==========> 02-07-17-CNETNews-ProtestDOCRoundtable.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944668.html

Tech activists protest anti-copying
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 17, 2002, 5:55 PM PT

WASHINGTON--Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department 
meeting Wednesday, insisting on their right to debate the entertainment 
industry over anti-copying technologies. 


==========> 02-07-20-SJMerc-DG-MSPalladium.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/3703596.htm

Posted on Sat, Jul. 20, 2002
Hollywood, tech make suspicious pairing
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  Last week, some of America's most influential technology executives wrote a 
let's-be-pals letter to the heads of the entertainment industry. Surely, said 


==========> 02-07-23-CNETNews-BermanHackBill.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html

Could Hollywood hack your PC?
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT

WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal 
that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file 
trading. 


==========> 02-07-25-Berman-BermanP2PHackBill.txt==========

http://www.house.gov/berman/pr072502.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
CONTACT: GENE SMITH 
(202) 225-4695 
July 25, 2002 

              BERMAN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO FOIL PEER TO PEER  PIRACY

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-CA), together with Reps. Howard 


==========> 02-07-25-CNETNews-ACLU-DMCA-Edelman-v-N2H2.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html

On trial: Digital copyright law
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 25, 2002, 9:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in 
an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. 



==========> 02-07-27-SJMerc-DG-HijackingOurRights.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/3751660.htm

Posted on Sat, Jul. 27, 2002
Hacking, hijacking our rights
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  If you or I asked Congress for permission to legally hack other people's 
computers, we'd be laughed off Capitol Hill.  Then we'd be investigated by the 


==========> 02-07-29-NYT-BroadcastFlag-BidenBermanBills.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/technology/29DIGI.html"
?ex=1029280417&ei=1&en=a07e0fec8c6cdd6f

Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute 
The New York Times -- page C3
July 29, 2002
By AMY HARMON 

The entertainment industry's campaign to rally Congressional support for
new methods of copyright enforcement is yielding results. And it is


==========> 02-07-29-PCWorld-MSRevealsPalladiumDetails.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103440,00.asp

Microsoft Reveals Palladium Details
Hardware-software security strategy will require trust of customer, partners.
Sam Costello, IDG News Service
Monday, July 29, 2002

During the month since Microsoft announced Palladium, its plan to marry 
hardware and software security inside every Windows PC has been hailed as 
either a potential savior or a scourge for computer security and user freedom.


==========> 02-07-30-CNETNews-HPUsesDMCAforSecurityThreat.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html

Security warning draws DMCA threat
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 30, 2002, 4:48 PM PT

WASHINGTON--Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers 
who unearth flaws in the company's software: the Digital Millennium Copyright 
Act. 


==========> 02-07-31-BW-P2P-Hacking.txt==========

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020731_4889.htm

JULY 31, 2002 

PERSPECTIVE 
By Heather Green 

Hollywood Vigilantes vs. Copyright Pirates
The entertainment industry doesn't need a law letting it hack and disable
file-sharers. Why is Congress even considering it? 


==========> 02-08-01-CNETNews-HP-BacksDown-DMCA.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947745.html?tag=fd_top

HP backs down on copyright warning
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 1, 2002, 5:58 PM PT

WASHINGTON--Hewlett-Packard has backed away from legal threats it made against 
security analysts who publicized flaws in the company's software. 



==========> 02-08-01-DarwinMag-LessigOnPatents.txt==========

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/080102/lessig.html

An interview with Lawrence Lessig on Patents and the Internet 
BY TODD DATZ 

LAWRENCE LESSIG knows how to
stir things up. A professor at the Stanford
Law School, he is also the founder of the
Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
His latest book, The Future of Ideas: The


==========> 02-08-01-HPPressRelease-HP-BacksDown-DMCA.txt==========

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hp.recants.dmca.080102.html

HP Statement 
August 1, 2002 

1) HP is committed to protecting our customer's security environments. 

2) We have verified that there is a security vulnerability with Tru64 UNIX, the 
details of which were brought to our attention July 18. The problem has now 
been isolated and HP has been preparing a fix, which will be available within 


==========> 02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-HPComesToItsSenses-DMCA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3792640.htm

Posted on Sat, Aug. 03, 2002
HP backs off threat, but why did they even make it?
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

HP COMES TO ITS SENSES: Hewlett-Packard has sensibly backed off a threat it 
made early this week against people who'd exposed a security hole in an HP 
product. The question is what possessed the company to make the threat in the 


==========> 02-08-04-NewsRecord-RepCobleSupportsBermanBill.txt==========

http://www.news-record.com/news/columnists/staff/cone04.htm

Coble wrong about Hollywood hackers 
8-4-02
By EDWARD CONE 
News & Record

  Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the Internet, with 
the voters of North Carolina's sixth Congressional district leading the charge.



==========> 02-08-05-JanisIan-DownloadingMusic-Followup1.txt==========

http://www.janisian.com/article-fallout.html

FALLOUT - a follow up to The Internet Debacle
Author's note: You are welcome to post this article on any cooperating website, 
or in any print magazine, although we request that you include a link directed 
to http://www.janisian.com and writer's credit!

I. The original article 

Quite frankly, when I spent three months researching and writing The Internet 


==========> 02-08-05-USACM-DatabaseProtectionLegislation.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/innovation.html

Legislative End Run Would Restrict Facts in the Digital Age
By Jeff Grove
Director, ACM Office of Public Policy
Washington, D.C.

Facts and ideas in our national innovation system exist largely in the public
domain. Current law allows the scientific community to use facts as
building blocks that advance intellectual discourse. In turn, society benefits


==========> 02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacki.txt==========

http://www4.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=108873

Note Number: FT-17-7138
Proposed Law Will Hurt, Not Help the Online Music Industry
06 August 2002
Robert Batchelder 

A bill before the U.S. Congress would let companies hack peer-to-peer (P2P)
networks to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted music. But the music 
industry


==========> 02-08-07-RIAA-NetRadioRoyaltyRateAppeal.txt==========

http://www.riaa.com/PR_Story.cfm?id=542

RIAA Announces Intent To Appeal Librarian’s Decision
On Internet Radio Royalty Rates 

WASHINGTON (Aug. 7) -- The Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) today announced its
intent to file a court appeal of the June 20 decision
by the Librarian of Congress on royalty rates for
Internet radio. The notice of intent will be officially


==========> 02-08-07-SJMerc-NetRadioRoyaltyRateAppeals.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3819994.htm

Posted on Wed, Aug. 07, 2002
Both sides appeal royalty rate for Net radio
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  If there's anything Internet radio broadcasters and the recording industry 
can agree on, it's this: A federal appeals court should throw out the new 
royalty rate broadcasters would pay to stream music online.


==========> 02-08-10-InfoWarrior-Forno-RIAASocialControl.txt==========

http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-10.html

Hollywood's Private War For Social Control 
Richard Forno 
10 August 2002 
Article #2002-10 
(c) 2002 Richard Forno. Permission granted to reproduce/republish in entirety 
with appropriate credit. 

A July 25 letter sent to Attorney General  John Ashcroft by 19 American 


==========> 02-08-11-DaveWiner-BermanHackingBill.txt==========

>North Carolina Matters
>Sun, Aug 11, 2002; by Dave Winer.
>
>Good morning
>
>In late July we reported on a bill proposed by US Representative
>Howard Berman and three others, that would give the entertainment
>industry legal authority to enter, search, and even damage the
>personal computers of people they suspect of "pirating" their
>copyrighted music or movies.


==========> 02-08-11-SJMerc-DG-CopyrightDebateNeeded.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3842508.htm

Posted on Sun, Aug. 11, 2002
Dan Gillmor: We must engage in copyright debate
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  If you can set the rules, you can win the contest. That's the major reason 
the entertainment cartel is winning the debate over copyright in the Digital 
Age.


==========> 02-08-12-ALA-Commets-BidenAnticounterfeitingBillS2395-Databa.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 66
August 12, 2002

In This Issue: Copyright Issue Update

We're asking that you contact your Senators to express your concerns about
two copyright-related issues that may be coming up after the August recess
and could move quickly through Congress before it adjourns for this session.
You can reach your Senators' Washington office through the U.S. Capitol


==========> 02-08-12-SJMerc-JudgeStaysEFFSonicBlueLawsuit.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3851281.htm

Posted on Mon, Aug. 12, 2002
Judge stalls effort against ReplayTV
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  LOS ANGELES - An effort by consumers to join the legal battle between 
Hollywood and the makers of the ReplayTV 4000 digital video recorder appears 
doomed.


==========> 02-08-14-SJMerc-IsRegistrarLiable-sex.com-Registration.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3858468.htm

Posted on Wed, Aug. 14, 2002
Sex.com dispute returns to court
VERISIGN'S LIABILITY LATEST ISSUE IN CASE
By Chris O'Brien
Mercury News

  The legal saga over rights to the Sex.com Internet address returned to court 
Tuesday in San Francisco, where a federal appeals court was asked to decide 


==========> 02-08-15-OReilly-Lessig-OSCONKeynote.txt==========

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html

Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002 
by Lawrence Lessig
08/15/2002 

Editor's Note: In his address before a packed house at the Open Source 


==========> 02-08-19-CNETNews-Declan-DMCA-BadButNotTooBad.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2010-12-950229.html

Debunking DMCA myths
By Declan McCullagh 
August 19, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--Should researchers really be so worried about the much-reviled
Digital Millennium Copyright Act? 

If you believe the buzz, you'll conclude that programmers, academics and 


==========> 02-08-19-InfoWaveNet-BansRIAAFromNetwork.txt==========

http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php

IWT Bans RIAA From Accessing Its Network
August 19, 2002

Information Wave Technologies has announced it will actively deny the Recording 
Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its 
network. Earlier this year, the RIAA announced its new plan to access computers 
without owner's consent for the sake of protecting its assets. Information Wave 
believes this policy puts its customers at risk of unintentional damage, 


==========> 02-08-19-SJMerc-RecordingCosSueBackboneProviders-StopChinese.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3896246.htm

Posted on Mon, Aug. 19, 2002
Music industry targets Chinese download site via service providers

  NEW YORK (AP) - Seeking to block access to a Chinese Web site it says is 
trafficking in pirated music, the U.S. recording industry is suing four 
companies that control the domestic Internet's main long-haul pipelines.

  The music industry wants an immediate federal court order that would compel 


==========> 02-08-20-Slate-MusicIndustryDownturnSelfInflicted.txt==========

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069732

The music industry's self-inflicted wounds.
By Mark Jenkins
Posted Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 8:19 AM PT 

2001 may not be the year the music died, but the pop biz did develop a
nagging headache, and it's not going away. The recorded-music
industry's first slump in more than two decades continues this year; the
number of discs sold is slipping and so is the appeal of last year's stars.


==========> 02-08-20-ZDNetNews-DOJ-ToProsecuteP2PUsersUnderNETAct.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-954591.html

DOJ to prosecute file swappers
By Declan McCullagh 
Special to ZDNet News
August 20, 2002, 2:27 PM PT
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-954625.html 

ASPEN, Colo.--The U.S. Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting
peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday. 


==========> 02-08-21-WashPost-Music-Spoofing-CopyProtectCDs-P2PHacking.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42239-2002Aug20?language=printer

A New Tactic in the Download War 
Online 'Spoofing' Turns the Tables on Music Pirates 
By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 21, 2002; Page A01 

The first time Travis Daub got "spoofed," he figured faulty software was to 
blame. Hoping to sample the new album by Moby, he downloaded one of its songs, 


==========> 02-08-25-SJMerc-DG-ActivistsTakeOnHollywood-CobleBill.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3935348.htm

Posted on Sun, Aug. 25, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Activists take on Hollywood cartel
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  It's doubtful that Tara Grubb worries Hollywood's movie moguls or the people 
who run the record industry. Maybe she should.



==========> 02-08-26-SJMerc-CDSalesDown.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3942266.htm

Posted on Mon, Aug. 26, 2002
Recording industry reports further decline in CD sales
SIMON AVERY
AP Business Writer

  LOS ANGELES - Compact disc music sales decreased 7 percent during the first 
half of the year, a further indication that online music sharing sites are 
hurting the recording industry, a trade group said Monday.


==========> 02-08-27-CNETNews-Verizon-CopyrightPositions.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955417.html

Verizon's copyright campaign
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 27, 2002, 12:00 PM PT

ASPEN, Colo.--The copyright wars on Capitol Hill have begun to drift into the 
political equivalent of trench warfare, with Hollywood and the music industry 
pitted against hardware makers, electronics manufacturers, and ragtag activists 


==========> 02-09-01-GigaLaw-MusicCopyrightsWar.txt==========

http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2002-all/yu-2002-08-all.html

Why the Entertainment Industry's Copyright Fight is Futile
By Peter K. Yu
September 1, 2002

Summary: The entertainment industry is fighting
hard to protect its works against threats posed
by digital technologies. But laws and
counter-technologies are not always effective. This analysis


==========> 02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3988260.htm

Posted on Mon, Sep. 02, 2002
Subscription online music sites face uphill road
SIMON AVERY
AP Business Writer

  LOS ANGELES - Online subscription music sites have finally arrived. But 
there's been little fanfare, and so far almost no one is buying.



==========> 02-09-02-Telephony-RecordIndustryAsksTelcosToBanTraffic.txt==========

http://currentissue.telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_record_industry_pulls/index.htm

RECORD INDUSTRY PULLS TELCOS INTO BATTLE OVER MUSIC PIRACY
by Kevin Fitchard
Telephony Magazine, Sept. 2, 2002

Suits filed in the past two weeks by record companies signal that the
recording industry wants carriers' help in shutting down illegal song
swapping and online music piracy. While the trend is just emerging,


==========> 02-09-03-LATimes-DRM-MayCurtailChoices.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-microwood3sep03.story

Hollywood, Tech Piracy Efforts May Curtail Choices
Entertainment: Meeting the demand for secure content could limit consumers' use 
of TV shows, movies and songs.
By JOSEPH MENN and JON HEALEY
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
September 3 2002

REDMOND, Wash. -- As the entertainment and technology industries publicly are 


==========> 02-09-04-SJMerc-RecordCompaniesGetMadsterInjunction.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/4003605.htm

Posted on Wed, Sep. 04, 2002
Record companies win injunction against Madster

  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Saying the file-swapping service Madster appears to 
contribute to copyright infringement ``on a massive scale,'' a federal judge 
granted a preliminary injunction against the service Wednesday.

  The order issued from U.S. District Court in Chicago is a victory for record 


==========> 02-09-05-WashPost-RIAASeeksToForceVerizonToHelp.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38034-2002Sep4.html

A Story Of Piracy And Privacy 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 5, 2002; Page E01 

The recording industry and the nation's largest telephone company are crossing 
legal swords in what could be a test case of how far big record labels can go 
to track down computer users who swap music online.


==========> 02-09-09-DanBricklin-WhyCDSalesAreDown.txt==========

Dan Bricklin's Web Site: www.bricklin.com

The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg

Given the slight dip in CD sales despite so many reasons for there to be a much 
larger
drop, it seems that the effect of downloading, burning, and sharing is one of 
the few bright
lights helping the music industry with their most loyal customers.



==========> 02-09-15-SJMerc-DG-IssuesThatWillShapeTheInternet.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4079611.htm

Posted on Sun, Sep. 15, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Issues that will shape the Internet
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  It took a series of smart decisions to create the Internet as an open network 
where innovation could thrive, as I noted in this space a week ago. Now let's 


==========> 02-09-16-CIOInsight-Lessig-P2PandSpamVigilantes.txt==========

http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,3668,a=31039,00.asp

September 16, 2002
A Bounty on Spammers
By Lawrence Lessig 

  According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, a vigilante is "a member of a 
volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when 
the processes of law appear inadequate)." He or she is "a self-appointed doer 
of justice."


==========> 02-09-16-NYT-CreativityInDigitalArtPrograms.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/arts/design/16ARTS.html?ex=1033186265&ei=1&en=cc63488ea16ea0c5

Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures
September 16, 2002
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
New York Times

Most of us seem to want to experience an artistic creation as a finished
product, not as a mound of raw materials. So an exhibition called "Gobs


==========> 02-09-17-CNETNews-ConsumerElecAssocSaysP2PNotIllegalOrImmora.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958324.html

Trade group: P2P not illegal or immoral
By John Borland 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 17, 2002, 4:08 PM PT

After months of making low-key complaints, a consumer electronics maker trade 
group on Tuesday launched a bitter attack on record labels' and movie studios' 
anti-piracy campaigns. 


==========> 02-09-17-SJMerc-DG-FederalSecurityPlanForControlFreaks.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4097316.htm

Posted on Tue, Sep. 17, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Feds' cyberspace plan should appeal to control freaks
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  Security in the online world has never been much more than an afterthought. A 
useful new federal document, to be officially unveiled today, aims to change 
that mindset.


==========> 02-09-19-SJMerc-DG-ConsumerElecAssocSpeechOnIP.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4107717.htm

Posted on Thu, Sep. 19, 2002
Consumer Electronics Makers on Customers' Side in Copyright War
Posted by Dan Gillmor

Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, gave an important 
speech two days ago, defending customers' rights in the copyright era. He sent 
me a copy and I'm posting it below.


==========> 02-09-20-GrepLawHarvard-Marti-FreeSW-SWPatents.txt==========

http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/0435210

Don Marti on Free Software, Patents and the Internet  posted by mpawlo on 
Friday September 20, @04:27AM from the freedom-fighters dept. 

Don Marti is the editor of LinuxJournal and the
mastermind behind the Burnallgifs campaign. He
has strong views on free software, software
patentability and the freedom of the Internet. Marti
should personally be featured in any encylopedia under


==========> 02-09-20-InfoWorld-IP-DRM-Issues.txt==========

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/09/23/020923opcurve.xml

September 20, 2002 01:01 PM PST 
Fighting the last war 
Steve Gillmor 

STUDENTS OF HISTORY -- and I'm not one of them unless it's Beatle-related --
often make note of the tendency to fight the last war. So it was that the 
British
advanced in columns while the Americans hid behind rocks and trees. Later, the


==========> 02-09-22-SJMerc-DG-ValentiPresentsHollywoodViews.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4127963.htm

Posted on Sun, Sep. 22, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Valenti presents Hollywood's side of the technology story
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

  WASHINGTON - For Jack Valenti and the corporations he represents, the debate 
over copyright policy boils down to some fairly simple notions. Hollywood 
really does want to make its movies available online, but without strict 


==========> 02-09-23-Slashdot-JanisIan3-AnswersQuestions.txt==========

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/133228

Janis Ian on Life in the Music Business
Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 23, @12:00PM
from the been-there-forever-and-done-it-all dept.
Y'all didn't pull any punches in the questions you asked, and
Janis didn't pull any in her answers. But then, the word "outspoken" has been
used to describe Janis ever since she recorded Society's Child at the age of
15, back in 1965. 



==========> 02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieS.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4144596.htm

Posted on Tue, Sep. 24, 2002
Net film provider sues studios
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  An Internet video-on-demand service has filed an antitrust lawsuit against 
Sony Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., alleging the movie studios 


==========> 02-09-24-Wired-BermanBillDebate.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55294,00.html

P2P Pugilists Put Up Their Dukes 
By Michael Grebb 
2:00 a.m. Sep. 24, 2002 PDT 

WASHINGTON -- In a panel discussion steeped in dogma, adherents on both sides 
of the Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) debate accused each other of everything from 
aiding thieves to destroying the Internet. 



==========> 02-09-25-SJMerc-MusicArtistsAppealAgainstDownloading.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4151916.htm

Posted on Wed, Sep. 25, 2002
Artists join industry campaign against music piracy
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  The music industry is launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to 
combat Internet music piracy by appealing directly to fans to stop stealing.



==========> 02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt==========

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=
/nm/20020925/tc_nm/media_kpmg_dc

Study Faults Media Focus on Copyright Piracy
Wed Sep 25,12:04 AM ET
 By Bob Tourtellotte 

 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Media companies must put less emphasis on protecting 
digital content and instead find ways to make money from digital music and 
movies if they hope to beat back copyright pirates who threaten their 


==========> 02-09-26-ACM-USACMLetter-HR5211-P2PHackingBill.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/usacm/Letters/P2P.htm

September 26, 2002
The Honorable Howard Coble
Chairman
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
B351A Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515



==========> 02-09-26-StarTribune-BermanDefendsP2PHackingBill.txt==========

http://www.startribune.com/stories/762/3328744.html

Lawmaker Defends Online Piracy Bill
By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press Writer
09/26/2002

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A California congressman on Thursday defended his proposal 
to give the entertainment industry new powers to disrupt downloads of pirated 
music and movies. 


==========> 02-09-27-NationalJournal-BermanP2PHackingBillHearingHR5211.txt==========

The National Journal
Piracy
Officials Weigh Merits Of E-Music 'Decoys,' Anti-Piracy Tools
by Drew Clark

Key members of the House subcommittee responsible for intellectual property
issues appeared evenly split on Thursday about whether a bill to exempt
copyright holders from anti-hacking laws is necessary or ill considered.

Californian Howard Berman, ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary Courts,


==========> 02-10-02-ZoeLofgren-DigitalChoiceAndFreedomAct-ConsumerRight.txt==========

http://www.house.gov/lofgren/press/107press/021002_release.htm

News From U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren 16th Congressional District, California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  
October 2, 2002  
CONTACT: Steve Adamske (202) 225-3072

   LOFGREN VOWS TO PROTECT CONSUMERS 
   IN THE FIGHT OVER DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

Silicon Valley Congresswoman introduces bill to respect consumer rights and 


==========> 02-10-03-ALA-SupportBoucherDoolittleLofgrenBills.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 80
October 3, 2002

In This Issue: URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Call Representatives to co-sponsor fair
use legislation

Today, Representatives Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle
(R-CA.)introduced legislation that reaffirms fair use in the digital
environment. The "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act" (DMCRA) proposes


==========> 02-10-03-LinuxJournal-DocSearls-DigitalHollywoodConfReview-D.txt==========

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6360

Doc talks about what he learned by attending last week's Digital Hollywood 
Conference in Beverly Hills.
The following article is the text of Doc Searls' SuitWatch newsletter from 
October 3, 2002.

When I showed up at the Digital Hollywood conference in Beverly Hills last 
week, I didn't
expect much in the way of connectivity. Free wireless Net access, now almost 


==========> 02-10-07-CNETNews-BrucePerens-W3CAdoptsRoyaltyFreePolicy.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-961092.html

Beware of the Internet toll booth
By Bruce Perens 
Special to ZDNet
October 7, 2002, 12:53 PM PT

The penultimate step in a yearlong battle over patents on Internet standards 
came last week, when the World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Board voted to 
recommend a royalty-free policy. 


==========> 02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt==========

FAST FORWARD:
Tuning Out the Customer
FORTUNE.COM
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
By David Kirkpatrick

Something has gone terribly wrong in the relationship between media
companies and their customers. The use and enjoyment of music and video
appears to be rising, as a multitude of new methods of digitally
receiving and using it emerge. But rather than welcome the opportunity


==========> 02-10-09-SJMerc-Cassel-DoWeReallyNeedCopyright.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4241331.htm

Posted on Wed, Oct. 09, 2002
Andrew Cassel | Do we really need to have copyright?
As the high court reviews an extension in the number of years of ownership, 
consider social and economic costs.
By Andrew Cassel
Inquirer Columnist

  One of the hottest debates in economics is scheduled to erupt today on the 


==========> 02-10-09-SJMerc-EldredVsAshcroft-JusticesHearArgumentsOnCRLe.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4251014.htm

Posted on Wed, Oct. 09, 2002
Justices hear arguments on copyright length
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a landmark 
copyright case that could determine how soon the public will get free and 
unlimited access to a treasure trove of 20th century cultural works.


==========> 02-10-09-SJMerc-ElredVsAshcroft-Lessig.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4243668.htm

Posted on Wed, Oct. 09, 2002
Battle over extended copyrights goes to Supreme Court
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON - Stanford University law Professor Larry Lessig will ask the 
Supreme Court today to strike down a law that he sees as unconstitutionally 
limiting public access to cultural works and as a threat to the free-flowing 


==========> 02-10-09-WSJ-BBAddsComplexityToPiracyFighting.txt==========

"Broadband Adds Complications to Piracy Battle"
Wall Street Journal
Oct. 09, 2002
By Cris Prystay

Kuala Lumpur -- Broadband technology is becoming the greatest threat to
software and entertainment companies battling copyright piracy in Asia,
industry executives say.

Traditional copyright piracy continues to worsen in developing countries


==========> 02-10-10-WashPost-EldredVsAshcroft-JusticesHearArgumentsOnCR.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3508-2002Oct9.html

Justices Hear Challenge to Copyright Law
Extensions Stifle Access, Opponents Say; Government Claims Congressional
Prerogative 
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 10, 2002; Page E01 

The future ownership of such icons of American popular


==========> 02-10-11-NYT-EditorialOnEldred-v-Ashcroft.txt==========

October 11, 2002
New York Times Editorial
An Abuse of Copyright

Four years ago, after vigorous lobbying by media corporations, Congress
extended copyrights on everything from "Mickey Mouse" to "The Sun Also
Rises" by 20 years. This was a bad idea. It restricts the public's
access to vast numbers of works and limits the ways contemporary artists
and writers can borrow from them.



==========> 02-10-11-NYT-ExtensionIsAbuseOfCopyright.txt==========

An Abuse of Copyright
NY Times Oct. 11, 2002

Four years ago, after vigorous lobbying by media corporations, Congress 
extended copyrights on everything from "Mickey Mouse" to "The Sun Also Rises" 
by 20 years. This was a bad idea. It restricts the public's access to vast 
numbers of works and limits the ways contemporary artists and writers can 
borrow from them.

The Constitution's drafters considered copyright important enough to the 


==========> 02-10-14-NYT-CopyrightExtensionOpponentsNotHopeful.txt==========

An Uphill Battle in Copyright Case
By AMY HARMON
NY Times
Oct. 14, 2002

At 11:01 a.m. last Wednesday, at the conclusion of the Supreme Court arguments 
over the constitutionality of a law that extended copyrights for 20 years, the 
statute's challengers knew they had not scored a decisive victory.

"My sense is that the case could be in trouble," Charles Nesson, the 


==========> 02-10-14-NYT-InternationalIPIssues.txt==========

NEW ECONOMY
Debate on Intellectual Property
By STEVE LOHR
NY Times
Oct. 14, 2002

In the 19th century, the United States was both a rapidly industrializing 
nation and  as Charles Dickens, among others, knew all too well  a bold 
pirate of intellectual property.



==========> 02-10-14-Reuters-JoniMitchellAshamedToBeInMusicBusiness.txt==========

Joni Mitchell 'Ashamed' to Be in Music Business
Mon Oct 14, 7:52 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hell hath no fury like Joni Mitchell (news) on the
subject of the music industry. 

                   The veteran singer/songwriter, on the promotional trail
                   for a new album, says she is "ashamed" to be part of
                   the music business and may stop recording. 

                   "I just think it's a cesspool," the 58-year-old folk-rock


==========> 02-10-21-NewsForge-Stallman-trustedComputing.txt==========

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1449250

Linux.Com
The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source
Can you trust your computer?
2002.10.21 11:14
By Richard Stallman

Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their 
computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call 


==========> 02-10-24-DCInternet-DOCBelievesCopyrightFightsSlowingBroadba.txt==========

http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1487631

Copyright Fights Slowing Broadband Growth
By Roy Mark
October 24, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Resolving the legal
issues of digital content and rights
management are integral to sparking
broader consumer use of broadband,


==========> 02-10-24-ZDNet-BermanP2PHackingBillMayBeRewritten.txt==========

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-963087.html

P2P hacking bill may be rewritten
By Declan McCullagh 
Special to ZDNet News
October 24, 2002, 5:36 AM PT
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-963162.html 

WASHINGTON--A proposal to let copyright owners hack into and disrupt 
peer-to-peer


==========> 02-10-30-CNETNews-ACLU-AntiDMCASuit-bBlockingSWList.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963975.html

Digital copyright law on trial
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 30, 2002, 3:39 PM PT

A security researcher asked a federal judge Wednesday to let a challenge to the 
Digital Millennium Copyright Act continue. 



==========> 02-11-03-AOTC-ReviewOfBadTechLegislation.txt==========

http://www.aotc.info/archives/000152.html#000152

American Open Technology Consortium
Educating politics about technology 
November 03, 2002
The Worst Coders in Washington 

The best code in the world can be foiled by a single bug. One careless line of 
code can crash an entire program. 



==========> 02-11-03-AP-TrustedComputing-UsersCedeControl.txt==========

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=528&ncid=528&e=2&u=/
ap/20021103/ap_on_hi_te/controlled_computing

 New PCs Likely to Cede Some Control 
 Sun Nov 3, 1:58 PM ET
 By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer 

 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - To thwart hackers and foster online commerce, the next 
generation of computers will almost certainly cede some control to software 
firms, Hollywood and other outsiders. 


==========> 02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4439006.htm

Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002
Plunge in online music sales blamed on file sharing
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Online sales of music CDs are plummeting three times as fast as traditional 
retail CD sales, another sign of the corrosive impact of file-sharing services 
on record sales, a New York research group reports today.


==========> 02-11-03-STMerc-CriticsSayTrustedComputingThreatensConsumerF.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4437666.htm

Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002
Critics: 'Trusted computing' threatens consumer freedom

  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - To thwart hackers and foster online commerce, the 
next generation of computers will almost certainly cede some control to 
software firms, Hollywood and other outsiders.

  That could break a long-standing tenet of computing: that PC owners 


==========> 02-11-04-ALA-TEACHAct-EducationalUseOfIP.txt==========

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 87
November 4, 2002

In This Issue: Major Copyright Bill Affecting Distance Education
Becomes Law

On November 2nd, 2002, the "Technology, Education and Copyright
Harmonization Act" (the TEACH Act), part of the larger Justice
Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2215), was signed into law by


==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4441090.htm

Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002
Growing popularity of CD burning, illegal song-swapping cuts into online music 
sales

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The growing popularity of CD burning and illegal 
song-swapping over the Internet has cut into online music sales, sending them 
tumbling 25 percent this year, according to a survey released Monday.



==========> 02-11-06-EPIC-LetterToCollegePresReP2PMonitoring.txt==========

http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/p2pletter.html

November 6, 2002 

Dear College or University President,

We are writing in regard to a series of letters you recently received on issues 
of copyright infringement and peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading networks. [1]   
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is a not-for-profit research 
center that focuses on the right to privacy and emerging civil liberties 


==========> 02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965194.html?tag=fd_top

Movielink ready to roll
By Stefanie Olsen 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 10, 2002, 6:19 PM PT

After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the 
green light to its online movie rental service. 



==========> 02-11-11-NewScientist-TechChangesCouldStopAttacksOnP2P.txt==========

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993037

'Rewiring' file-sharing networks may stop attacks 
10:51 11 November 02
Will Knight
 
A proposed US law permitting attacks on peer-to-peer file sharing networks to 
disrupt illegal copying could be undermined by research from two US computer 
researchers.



==========> 02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4492236.htm

Posted on Mon, Nov. 11, 2002
Major studios to launch Net movie rentals
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Five major motion picture studios today plan to launch an Internet movie 
rental service that positions Hollywood for the day when computers emerge as 
the hub of digital home entertainment.


==========> 02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt==========

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073743&device=

HudsonHawk.com
Movielink will be another Internet flop.
By Ben Fritz
Posted Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:06 AM PT 

On Nov. 11, five major studiosUniversal, Paramount, Sony, Warner
Bros., and MGMunveil Movielink, a joint venture that, for the first
time, allows customers to download a large assortment of studio films.


==========> 02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4513677.htm

Posted on Wed, Nov. 13, 2002
EMI takes lead, jumps into online music sales
LABEL OKS DIGITAL SALES OF JUST-RELEASED SINGLES
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

  Record labels are suddenly embracing online music services with a fervor that 
can be traced to the rapid erosion of its traditional business -- sales of 


==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesKidsDomainAndWebcastingRoyal.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4530132.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002
Congress Creates Kids' Internet Area
DAVID HO
Associated Press

  WASHINGTON - Congress approved legislation Friday to create a safe haven on 
the Internet for children, where parents can be assured Web sites are free of 
pornography and other material not suitable for youngsters.


==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesWebcastingRoyaltyRateRepriev.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4528948.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002
Congress approves royalty rate reprieve for Internet music broadcasters

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Smaller Internet music broadcasters will be allowed to pay 
lower copyright royalty fees than they do now under legislation Congress passed 
on Friday.

  The bill, which has been sent to President Bush to be signed into law, 


==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4529298.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002
Robbie Williams CD hits Net, but is it a plant?

  LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Songs from Robbie Williams's CD ``Escapology'' are 
appearing on free file-sharing Web sites days before the release hits the 
stores.

  But there's a catch -- many of the tracks, which Reuters heard on popular 


==========> 02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm

Posted on Tue, Nov. 19, 2002
Universal Music kicks off digital download plan

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music 
company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks 
available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new 
front in the marketing of digital music.



==========> 02-11-20-CNETNews-ConservativeJudgePosnerWarnsOfIPExpansion.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966595.html

Left gets nod from right on copyright law
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 20, 2002, 1:14 PM PT

WASHINGTON--U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, one of America's most 
prominent jurists, warned Tuesday of an "enormous expansion" of 
intellectual-property law, adding a conservative voice to a chorus of criticism 


==========> 02-11-20-Wired-RetailersUseDMCAToShutDownFatWallet.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56504,00.html

Big Retailers Squeeze FatWallet  
By Brian 01:00 PM Nov. 20, 2002 PT

Can the unpublished discount price of a DVD player for next week's big sale at 
Wal-Mart be copyrighted? 

That's the question at the heart of a legal dispute involving several big 
retailers and FatWallet, a popular website that caters to bargain shoppers. 


==========> 02-11-21-TheRegister-RetailersUseDMCAToShutDownFatWallet.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28223.html

Prices are trade secrets' - stores unite to make DMCA look stupid
By John Lettice
Posted: 21/11/2002 at 11:09 GMT

Four major US retailers have thrown their weight behind the anti-DMCA
campaign by making it look ridiculous. The bargain hunter site FatWallet.com
has been given notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by WalMart,
Target, Best Buy and Staples claiming that their sale prices are copyright trade


==========> 02-11-25-CNETNews-MPEG4LicenseTermsReleased.txt==========

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2126525,00.html

MPEG-4 adoption gets closer as licence released 
Paul Festa, CNET News.com  

A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia 
standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread 
adoption. 

The license released on Monday is essentially the same as one proposed by the 


==========> 02-11-27-NYT-StudentsLearnToEvadeMovesToProtectMediaFiles.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/technology/27SWAP.html

November 27, 2002
Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files
By AMY HARMON

As colleges across the country seek to stem the torrent of unauthorized digital 
media files flowing across their campus computer networks, students are 
devising increasingly sophisticated countermeasures to protect their free 
supply of copyrighted entertainment.


==========> 02-11-27-SJMerc-DigitalCopyrightIssueFlaresOnCampuses.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4616327.htm

Posted on Wed, Nov. 27, 2002
Digital copyright issue flares on campuses
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

  The recording and movie industry is stepping up its battle against digital 
copyright piracy, encouraging higher education leaders to monitor their 
students and impose restrictions on violators.


==========> 02-11-27-SJMerc-MovieStudiosConsideringSelfDestructingDVDs.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4619366.htm

Posted on Wed, Nov. 27, 2002
Now you see it, now you don't! Self-destructing DVDs

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - On a dismal, rainy day after watching Mel Gibson battle 
the English in ``Braveheart,'' wouldn't it be nice to simply throw away the DVD 
instead of slogging the rental back to Blockbuster?

  Technology that makes DVDs self-destruct in a few hours or days has already 


==========> 02-12-01-SJMerc-DG-IPCartelWinsMostOfTheTime.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4641661.htm

Posted on Sun, Dec. 01, 2002
Cartel winning most of the time
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

As the war over ``intellectual property'' spreads to new legal fronts,
the copyright cartel and its allies are winning most of the battles. Here
and there, however, we can find glimmers of hope.


==========> 02-12-02-CNETNews-StandardsOrgsHavePatentHoldersOnTheRopes.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-975587.html

Patent holders on the ropes
By Paul Festa 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 2, 2002, 12:00 PM PT

A sea change in the views on patented technologies is affecting a broad range 
of high-tech standards organizations, forcing caps, thresholds and outright 
bans on royalties. 


==========> 02-12-02-DigitalConsumer-FoxHeadOKsConsumerCopying.txt==========

DigitalConsumer.org
Two Issues:
McCains Commerce Committee Agenda
Fox Head OKs Consumer Copying

As we wait for the beginning of the new year and the new Congressional
session, there have been two interesting developments in the issue of
digital rights worth highlighting.

1.) John McCain (R-AZ), who was recently named Senate Commerce Committee


==========> 02-12-02-LATimes-EntertainmentFirmsWarnCollegesAboutDownload.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-piracy2dec02001431,0,329533.story 

Pirated Files Clog College Networks
Student downloads flood systems and draw complaints from entertainment firms.
By Rebecca Trounson
Times Staff Writer

December 2 2002

Alex Honigman can't remember exactly what he was looking for on the Web that 


==========> 02-12-02-SeattleTimes-HollywoodAndTechPartnersAgainstPiracy.txt==========

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134587593_digitalrights02.html

Monday, December 02, 2002 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Hollywood, tech become wary partners against piracy 
By Kim Peterson
Seattle Times technology reporter

Peter Chernin joked that he was walking into
enemy territory last month at the Comdex


==========> 02-12-02-SJMerc-EntertainmentIndustryAsksToShutDownMorpheusA.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4652610.htm

Posted on Mon, Dec. 02, 2002
Judge asked to shut down Morpheus, Grokster services
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

Napster may be vanquished, but the battle over music-swapping
technology rages on.



==========> 02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4647117.htm

Posted on Mon, Dec. 02, 2002
Fee-based online music services sing the blues
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

On his way to MusicNet headquarters in New York, Alan McGlade,
chief executive of one of the record labels' newest online ventures,
passes a humbling sight: the largest McDonald's restaurant in the


==========> 02-12-02-UCB-FatWalletChallengesRetailersDMCAClaims.txt==========

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/samuelson/news/20021202-fatwallet.html

FatWallet Challenges Abusive DMCA Claims and Protects Users' Privacy Rights
2002 December 02: 
Contact:
Megan E. Gray (202) 265-2738
Deirdre K. Mulligan (510) 642-0499
Tim Storm (815) 623-3750 x202

ROSCOE, IL - In a blatant misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, over


==========> 02-12-03-CNETNews-MadsterToldToPullThePlug.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-975927.html?tag=fd_top

Madster told to pull the plug
By John Borland 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 3, 2002, 4:13 PM PT

A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly 
known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch 
effort to prevent music piracy on its network. 


==========> 02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4661484.htm

Posted on Wed, Dec. 04, 2002
RealNetworks, Starz to Offer Online Film
HELEN JUNG
Associated Press

SEATTLE - RealNetworks Inc. and cable movie channel company
Starz Encore Group are teaming up to offer movie subscriptions over
the Internet.


==========> 02-12-05-EFF-LOC-DMCAReview-HowToRespond.txt==========

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/finkelstein_on_dmca.html

How To Win (DMCA) Exemptions And Influence Policy
by Seth Finkelstein (EFF 2001 Pioneer Award winner for censorware decryption) 

     But we're in a world where disobedience is treated with felony convictions.
     The idea that you are going to get lots of civil disobedience against the 
Digital
     Millennium Copyright Act is just crazy. You're going to get lots of
     prosecutions and people going away to jail.


==========> 02-12-09-USAToday-MusicIndustryHitsNewLows.txt==========

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2002-12-09-our-view_x.htm

Posted 12/9/2002 8:38 PM 
Music industry fight to block Net access hits new lows

Just ask any teenager: Nobody who's anybody pays retail for music. Thanks to
software that is readily available on the Internet, free music files can be 
easily
downloaded.



==========> 02-12-10-SJMerc-MovieStudiosTargetPiratedDVDs.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4710013.htm

Posted on Tue, Dec. 10, 2002
Movie studios target pirated DVDs sold via online auction sites

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The movie studios are playing Grinch to
Internet pirates selling unauthorized DVDs as holiday gifts over online
auction sites.

The Motion Picture Association of America filed federal civil lawsuits


==========> 02-12-10-SJMerc-MPAASuesEBayDVDSellers.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4711655.htm

Posted on Tue, Dec. 10, 2002
Moviemakers file lawsuits against online DVD sellers
MPAA ALLEGES NINE PEOPLE HAVE SOLD 1,000
PIRATED FILMS ON EBAY IN MONTH
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News

Expanding its campaign against movie pirates, Hollywood's most


==========> 02-12-11-AzOz-RIAAStatisticsDontAddUp.txt==========

http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html

RIAA's Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy
MacWizards Music Home Page
AzOz Home Page
Hayden's Wall Official Website Home Page
By George Ziemann
December 11, 2002

 The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has a real funny way of 


==========> 02-12-16-FinancialTimes-LocalLawsChallengeInternet.txt==========

http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=021216000425

COMMENT & ANAL YSIS: Material published on the internet and thus
accessible anywhere in the world is increasingly being challenged under the 
laws of
By Patti Waldmeir
Financial Times; Dec 16, 2002

When an Australian court ruled last week that Australian law could be used to
protect the rights of an Australian businessman living in Australia, cyberspace


==========> 02-12-20-NetAction-OurStakeInCyberspace.txt==========

http://www.netaction.org/futures/scenarios.html

Our Stake in Cyberspace
The Future of the Internet and Communication As We Know It
By Judi Clark
NetAction Advisory Board Member

Introduction

The future is uncertain. A useful tool for looking into the uncertainty is a 


==========> 02-12-23-DJMerc-DG-GameConsoleCompaniesControlConsumersRight.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4800255.htm

Posted on Mon, Dec. 23, 2002
Dan Gillmor: Electronics makers give little respect to consumers'
rights
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

Suppose all the companies that manufactured cars informed
customers, in the fine print of the purchase contract, that they could


==========> 02-12-23-MSNBS-EUCopyrightLawMissesDeadline.txt==========

http://www.msnbc.com/news/851265.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

EU copyright law misses deadline
Only two member countries have adopted digital law

LONDON, Dec. 23  A deadline for adopting a new
EU law on copyright protection has passed with
just two member countries signing up, dealing a
blow to media and software companies beset by
unauthorized duplication of their works across


==========> 03-01-03-SJMerc-BSA-CSPP-LobbyForNoFederalDRMRules.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4865275.htm

Posted on Fri, Jan. 03, 2003
Tech industry to take on Hollywood over digital rules
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - The high-tech industry plans to launch a
sophisticated new lobbying campaign later this month to strike back
against Hollywood in a battle to shape rules of the road for new digital


==========> 03-01-03-Verizon-SeeksStayOfOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt==========

http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml"
?id=78657&PROACTIVE_ID=cecfc6cfcec7c9c8c9c5cecfcfcfc5cececfc8cecfc9c9cdcdc5cf

News Release
Verizon Fights To Protect Consumer Privacy Rights 
Company Seeks Stay of Judge's Order in Recording Industry Case 
Jan. 30, 2003 

Media contact:
Susan Cavender Butta, 202-515-2515


==========> 03-01-03-Wired-WhyRIAAKeepsGettingHacked.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57048,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked  
By Michelle Delio 
02:00 AM Jan. 03, 2003 PT

The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share 
digital files, but the organization certainly
seems to be in favor of open access to its website. 



==========> 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4884503.htm

Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003
Net users shake off stingy ways, pay for content

LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Internet's reputation as a haven
for freeloaders is beginning to lose some meaning as research released
on Monday suggested the majority of Western European online users
are willing to pay for digital content.



==========> 03-01-08-CNETNews-Congress-DMCAChanges-Spam.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979623.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

Congress to take on spam, copyright 
    By Declan McCullagh 
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    January 8, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

    news analysis When the 107th Congress ended its work last November, 
politicians
    discarded dozens of technology-related bills that had been briefly 


==========> 03-01-08-CNETNews-LexmarkUsesDMCAToStopAftermarketTonerCartr.txt==========

News.com
Lexmark invokes DMCA in toner suit
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 8, 2003, 7:28 PM PT

Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals
from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act.
A federal judge in Kentucky has scheduled a hearing for Thursday in


==========> 03-01-08-DCInternet-BoucherIntroducesDigitalMediaConsumersRi.txt==========

http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1565901

January 8, 2003
Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill 
By Roy Mark 
DCInternet

Digital home recording rights became
the first technology-related
legislation introduced in the 108th


==========> 03-01-09-SJMerc-TiVoToConnectToInternetAsHub.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4907881.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 09, 2003
TiVo makes a new play as hub for high-tech living room
By Sam Diaz
Mercury News

TiVo makes a move to take the lead in the battle to control the
high-tech living room today as it announces a handful of new services
at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.


==========> 03-01-10-CNETNews-KaZaaCanBeSuedInUS.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980274.html?tag=fd_top

Judge: Kazaa can be sued in U.S. 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 10, 2003, 9:44 PM PT

A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that record companies and movie studios
can proceed with a lawsuit against the parent company of Kazaa--the most popular
online file-swapping service--in the United States. 


==========> 03-01-11-TheRegister-RIAASiteDefacedAgain.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28817.html

RIAA defaced -again!
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 11/01/2003 at 22:06 GMT

Reader reports are flooding in that the RIAA.org has been defaced - again. At
time of writing, the site appears to be down, And several readers have been
kind enough to include screen grabs, showing that the front page today carried
the following message. 


==========> 03-01-12-SJMerc-DG-TimeNotOnTheSideOfCopyrightCartel.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4929834.htm

Posted on Sun, Jan. 12, 2003
Cartel's copyright control loosening
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

LAS VEGAS - For several days last week, the cavernous
convention halls here became battlefields in the copyright wars. On
balance, the entertainment cartel didn't seem to be doing very well.


==========> 03-01-13-BostonGlobe-LexmarkUsesDMCAToStopAftermarketPrinter.txt==========

http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/upgrade/2003/0113.html

Time to rethink digital copyright act
By Hiawatha Bray    

A lovely state, Kentucky, but not a place that's generally in the forefront 
either of
law or technology. As a matter of fact, it may just have taken a giant step
backward. 



==========> 03-01-15-Salon-vonLohman-RIAA-BSA-CSPP-Agreement.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/15/hollywood_tech/index.html

Hollywood and Silicon
Valley: Together at last?
A new industry agreement on digital
copyright issues says the government
should stay out of enforcement. But it's
a little late for that, says one expert.
By Katharine Mieszkowski



==========> 03-01-16-LessigBlog-EldredvAshcroft-CopyrightExtension.txt==========

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_01.shtml#000862

Lessig Blog Archives for January 2003
The silent five 

It is the middle of the night. Sleep is awol, scared off by this question that 
won’t stop pestering me: Is
there a principle here? Is there a way to read these opinions as consistent 
with a principle? 



==========> 03-01-16-SJMerc-CourtUpholdsCopyrightExtension-EldredvAshcro.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4959741.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 16, 2003
Supreme Court OKs extended copyright control
By Heather Fleming Phillips
Mercury News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a
1998 law that extends copyright protections by 20 years, dashing the
hopes of activists who sought to make thousands of cultural works


==========> 03-01-16-SJMerc-DG-CourtUpholdsCopyrightExtension-EldredvAsh.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4959745.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 16, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Copyright ruling is a ripoff of consumers
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

Swipe a CD from a record store and you'll get arrested. But when
Congress authorizes the entertainment industry to steal from you -- well,
that's the American way.


==========> 03-01-17-Reason-EldredvAshcroft-AnInterviewWithMickeyMouse.txt==========

http://www.reason.com/links/links011703.shtml

Mickey Mouse Clubbed
Disney's cartoon rodent speaks out on the Eldred decision.
By Jesse Walker

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998so named in honor of
the late Rep. Bono, and not because it extended his copyright
termswas constitutional. Prior to the Bono Act, an individually


==========> 03-01-18-NYT-Lessig-CopyrightRenewalFeeProposal.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/18/opinion/18LESS.html?ex=1043916299&ei=1&en=2aca
1b10ad70176e

Protecting Mickey Mouse at Art's Expense
January 18, 2003

By LAWRENCE LESSIG
STANFORD, Calif.

The Supreme Court decided this week that the Constitution grants


==========> 03-01-20-DocSearles-EldredVsAshcroft.txt==========

http://www.aotc.info/archives/000160.html#000160

January 20, 2003
Going deep 

I've been trying to collect my thoughts about the Eldred decision. 
At this point I think there are several contexts that need to be
explored.

One is legal  constitutional, really. Larry and the lawbloggers 


==========> 03-01-20-NationalLawJ-DMCAResistsChallenges.txt==========

"DMCA Resists Challenges, Despite Recent Acquittal"
National Law Journal (01/20/03) Vol. 25, No. 22, P. C3; Chovanes, Joseph 

Two court challenges to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is
supposed to curb digital piracy by prohibiting certain efforts to bypass 
copyright
protections, alleged that it violated the Constitution on a number of counts, 
all of
which the courts rejected. The defendants of Universal City Studios Inc. v. 
Corley


==========> 03-01-21-CNETNews-VerizonForcedToRevealCustomerToRIAA.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981449.html

RIAA wins battle to ID Kazaa user 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 21, 2003, 3:57 PM PT

 A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Verizon Communications to disclose
the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate in a legal decision that could 
make it


==========> 03-01-21-SJMerc-VerizonOrderedToNamePiracySuspect.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5000738.htm

Posted on Tue, Jan. 21, 2003
Verizon ordered to name piracy suspect
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that Verizon Internet
Services must turn over to the record industry the name of a subscriber
who allegedly downloaded 600 songs from the Internet in a single day.


==========> 03-01-22-SJMerc-RIAAChiefRosenWillQuit.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5009396.htm

Posted on Wed, Jan. 22, 2003
Recording industry chief will quit at year's end
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

Internet music swappers won't have Hilary Rosen to kick around much
longer.



==========> 03-01-22-Wired-RIAAWantsISPsToPayForMusicDownloads.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57326,00.html

RIAA's Rosen Sets Sights on ISPs  
By Michelle Delio 
02:00 AM Jan. 22, 2003 PT

The Recording Industry Association of America wants to 
go after the companies that provide you with your Internet access. 

Here are some of the printable reactions since RIAA chief 


==========> 03-01-24-SJMerc-DG-MSDropsPalladiumName.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000755.shtml#000755

January 24, 2003 
Palladium Name Change; Mission Still Same
posted by Dan Gillmor 04:52 PM
permanent link to this item 

This just in from Microsoft's PR folks:

     "Microsoft is adopting a new name to replace the code name Palladium. 


==========> 03-01-24-SJMerc-NorwegianFinedForProvidingMP3Links.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5024798.htm

Posted on Fri, Jan. 24, 2003
Norwegian fined for operating song-swapping Web site

OSLO, Norway (AP) - A Norwegian man who operated a
song-swapping Web site that let users download copyrighted music was
fined for operating it, but not for downloading the music.

Frank Bruvik, 24, set up the site in 2001, but took it down after the


==========> 03-01-24-SJMerc-RecordingCompaniesToGoAfterISPsToStopDownloa.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5024811.htm

Posted on Fri, Jan. 24, 2003
Music execs vow to go after ISPs in piracy war

LONDON (Reuters) - Music industry officials on both sides of the
Atlantic Friday vowed to keep up the fight against online music swapping,
piling pressure on Internet service providers (ISPs) to police their
networks.



==========> 03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_2.html

Intellectual Property Rights of Multimedia Enriched Websites
By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun
Can original print and music survive the multimedia technology hoax?

Generally speaking, over the past two centuries copyright has survived numerous
technological advances such as the player piano, phonograph recordings, motion
pictures, television, radio, cassettes and compact discs. Often, these new
technologies have posed challenges to copyright law's applicability. Although


==========> 03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982170.html?tag=fd_top

Retailers in concert on digital music 
By Margaret Kane 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 27, 2003, 5:41 AM PT

A group of music retailers has formed a consortium to sell digital music. 

Best Buy, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, Trans World Entertainment, 


==========> 03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt==========

http://www.nypost.com/technology/67468.htm

MUSIC STORES BAND TOGETHER TO LAUNCH DIGITAL ECHO SERVICE
By BEN SILVERMAN 

January 27, 2003 -- A consortium of music retailers will
today announce the launch of a new company aimed at
gaining a foothold in the burgeoning digital music space. 

The formation of Echo - created with investments from


==========> 03-01-28-LATimes-KazaaChargesMusicIndustryMisusesCopyright.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kazaa28jan28001443,0,12445.story?coll=la%2
Dheadlines%2Dbusiness

January 28, 2003 
File-Sharing Service Says Studios, Labels Misuse Copyrights
Kazaa owner seeks an injunction to block the companies from enforcing their
claims.
By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer

Dramatically raising the stakes in the battle over online


==========> 03-01-28-SJMerc-KazaaClaimsMusicCompaniesActedImproperly.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5053096.htm

Posted on Tue, Jan. 28, 2003
Kazaa strikes back at record labels
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

The Australian company behind the world's most popular online music
swapping site accuses the music and movie industries of conspiring
against it to crush competition.


==========> 03-01-29-SJMerc-DG-PTOMess-SBCsWebNavigationPatents.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5056769.htm

Posted on Wed, Jan. 29, 2003
Dan Gillmor: SBC's patent claim on Web navigation is way off course
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

There was widespread satisfaction in the Internet community last summer
when a federal judge tossed out an outrageous claim by British Telecom
that it had a patent on hyperlinks, the clickable words and pictures on


==========> 03-01-30-LATimes-VerizonMadeOfferToRIAAToIdentifySomeP2PUser.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-verizon31jan31001451,0,4320674.story?coll=la-headlines-business

January 31, 2003 
Verizon Made Offer to Name Some Names
By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer

Verizon Communications Inc. has portrayed itself as
the great protector of consumer rights in its legal battle
with the giant music companies, declaring that no one


==========> 03-01-30-NetAction-SBC-EnforcesWebNavigationPatents.txt==========

Subject: Broadband Briefings: Stop SBC Action Alert
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:08:42 -0700 (MST)
From: Audrie Krause 

Published by NetAction            Issue No. 26              January 30, 2003

Repost where appropriate. Copyright and subscription info at end of message.
* * * * * * *
In This Issue:
Action Alert: Stop SBC


==========> 03-01-30-SJMerc-VerizonReqestsStayOnOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5068289.htm

Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003
Verizon asks judge to stay Internet ruling pending appeal

WASHINGTON (AP) - Verizon Communications Inc. asked a federal
judge Thursday to stay his ruling making it much simpler for the
entertainment industry to tie a digital pirate's online activities to his
real-world identity.



==========> 03-01-30-TheRegister-VerizonAppealsOrderToIdentifyP2PUser.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29129.html

Verizon fights on in RIAA ID case
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 31/01/2003 at 09:57 GMT

Verizon is to appeal against a US court ruling that it should reveal the 
identity
of an Internet subscriber to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of
America). As a first step, the firm yesterday filed a motion to stay the 


==========> 03-01-31-Wired-iCommuneSharesFilesAmongASmallGroup.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57482,00.html

Coder Finds New Way to Swap Tunes  
02:00 AM Jan. 31, 2003 PT

Like Daniel entering the lions' den, programmer Jim Speth is 
about to release some new music-sharing software that could land
him in a world of legal pain. 

Unlike Daniel, Speth doesn't have divine protection. But he 


==========> 03-02-01-Salon-EmbraceFileSharingOrDie.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/01/file_trading_manifesto/print.html

Embrace file-sharing, or die
A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading
music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong.

Editor's note: John Snyder is president of Artist House Records, a board
member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences
(NARAS), and a 32-time Grammy nominee. On Thursday night, he
submitted the following paper to NARAS.


==========> 03-02-05-HillNews-CongressCommUnveilTechPriorities.txt==========

http://www.hillnews.com/news/020503/priorities.aspx

House and Senate committees unveil high-tech priorities
By Jeff Dufour 

As the 108th Congress picks up steam, the House and Senate committees
responsible for telecommunications and technology issues have revealed their top
priorities for the coming year.

"We will have an ambitious telecom agenda" this year, said Ken Johnson,


==========> 03-02-05-LATimes-HollywoodAndTechSayNoCopyrightLegislationLi.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copy5feb05,0,4826533.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness

February 5, 2003 
Copyright Legislation Unlikely, Both Sides Say Tech and media leaders say 
possibility 
of war and lack of consensus will stall efforts this year.
By Edmund Sanders, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of major entertainment


==========> 03-02-07-IEEE-USA-WantsDMCAReexamined.txt==========

http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/inst_art.jsp?isno=02031&arnumber=02031_2w.featureDMCA§ion=4

07 February 2003 08:00 A.M.
IEEE-USA Wants Digital Millennium Copyright
Act Re-Examined 
BY ERICA VONDERHEID

Two recent court battles, as well as concerns raised by members,
have prompted IEEE-USA’s Intellectual Property Committee to


==========> 03-02-07-NatlLawReview-LexmarkTonerCartridgeLawsuitTestsDMCA.txt==========

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/
View&c=LawArticle&cid=1044059435217&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0

Suits Test Limits of Digital Copyright Act
Suits attempt to control digital spare parts
Steve Seidenberg
The National Law Journal
02-07-2003

What if Ford designed its cars so that all replacement parts and add-ons had to


==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVide.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147312.htm

Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003
Video on demand presents chicken-and-egg dilemma

NEW YORK (AP) - Fed up with driving to the video store in the cold of
winter, Beverly Boyarsky thought she had found the perfect solution: video
on demand.

For about $80 a month, the Huntington Station, N.Y., woman could order


==========> 03-02-11-Wired-TrackingDownKazaaToSue.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/kazaa.html

Issue 11.02 - February 2003 
The Race to Kill Kazaa

  The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The
  domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the South
  Pacific. The users - 60 million of them - are everywhere around the world. 
The next
  Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the 


==========> 03-02-12-SJMerc-DMCAUsedToCharge17ForHackingSatelliteTV.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5165388.htm

Posted on Wed, Feb. 12, 2003
17 Charged With Hacking Into Satellite TV
GARY GENTILE
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted 17 people who
authorities say hacked into satellite television transmissions, causing
millions of dollars in losses to DirecTV and Dish Network, the U.S.


==========> 03-02-13-NetImperative-RIAATargetsCorpsToStopIllegalDownload.txt==========

http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?cat=all&docid=BEP1_News_0000049028

Music industry delivers warning to corporates 
London, February 13 2003, (netimperative)
by Richard Agnew 

The music industry is hoping to step up its crusade against
illegal music downloading by warning large companies they face
legal action if their employees are found to be doing so from
work.


==========> 03-02-13-SJMerc-RIAA-MPAA-TargetCorpsToStopIllegalDownloadin.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5178283.htm

Posted on Thu, Feb. 13, 2003
Hollywood targets corporations to fight illegal downloading

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Movie studios and record labels are taking
their case against illegal Internet downloads directly to corporations,
where much of the offending action allegedly occurs.

The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture


==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt==========

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html

Congress Preps Tech Agenda
  Monday, February 17, 2003
  By Liza Porteus

  WASHINGTON  U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech
  agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of
  the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy,
  privacy and security, among other issues.


==========> 03-02-20-DetroitNews-SongwritersSueBertelsmannOverNapsterInf.txt==========

http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0302/20/technology-89533.htm

Thursday, February 20, 2003
Bertelsmann should pay for Napster's infringement, lawsuit says
By Christopher Mumma / Bloomberg News

NEW YORK -- Bertelsmann AG,
Germany's biggest media company,
should pay for the copyright
infringement permitted by the


==========> 03-02-20-LATimes-SongwritersSueBertelsmannOverNapsterInfring.txt==========

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134637712_napster20.html

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Music giant Bertelsmann sued over Napster 
By Joseph Menn
Los Angeles Times

Two world-renowned songwriters and two
independent music publishers sued


==========> 03-02-20-NYT-PatentsCoveringInternetSecurityOnTrial.txt==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/20NET.html 

"Trial Near in Patent Case on Key Internet Technology"
New York Times (02/20/03) P. C5; Markoff, John 

The case of a retired electronics engineer suing VeriSign, RSA Security, and
four other companies for allegedly infringing on his patented techniques for
online customer authentication and secure communications will have its day in
court starting next week. Leon Stambler, 74, filed suit against the companies in
2001, claiming that seven patents he owns cover the Secure Sockets Layer


==========> 03-02-20-Wired-Intel-DigConsumerOrgSymposiumSaysDMCABlocksTe.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57740,00.html

Summit: DMCA Blocks Tech Progress  
By Katie Dean
02:00 AM Feb. 20, 2003 PT

SANTA CLARA, California -- The Digital Millennium Copyright 
Act is threatening innovation in Silicon Valley, and it's time for
businesses and consumers to mobilize to change the law. 



==========> 03-02-23-LATimes-DMCAUsedToStopLegitimateCompetition.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dmca23feb23,1,4074563.story

February 23, 2003 
Media Copyright Law Put to Unexpected Uses
Companies are using legislation meant to restrain Web piracy to try to shut 
down rivals.
By David Streitfeld, Times Staff Writer

Under pressure from the entertainment industry,
Congress passed a bill in 1998 to restrain Internet


==========> 03-02-24-ACM-ACMIssuesNewCopyrightPolicy.txt==========

http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/copyright_01-03.html

ACM Issues New Copyright Policy
The policy can be found at: 
http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyrights.html

ACM is pleased to announce the release of Version 4 of its Copyright Policy. 
This
landmark document has been used as a model by many other associations and
publishers, because of the scope of issues it addresses regarding copyright in 
the


==========> 03-02-24-Wordspy-OnlineDictionaryToldToStopDefiningGoogleAsA.txt==========

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0302D&L=ads-l&P=R2450

Date:         Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:28:22 -0500
 Reply-To:     American Dialect Society 
 Sender:       American Dialect Society Mailing List 
 From:         Paul McFedries 
 Subject:      Google trademark concerns
 Comments: To: ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"



==========> 03-02-26-CNETNews-CongressAndOthersTargetUnivAndNoNETProsecu.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-986143.html

Congress targets P2P piracy on campus 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 26, 2003, 11:01 AM PT

Key politicians chided universities on Wednesday for not doing enough to limit
peer-to-peer piracy, calling unauthorized copying a federal crime that should be
punished appropriately. 


==========> 03-02-27-IDG-GermanCopyrightLevyOnPCsWorriesMany.txt==========

http://www.idg.net/ic_1187905_9677_1-5042.html

German copyright levy on PCs worries many
  John Blau, IDG News ServiceD=FCsseldorf Bureau
  February 27, 2003, 09:10

  Plenty of anxious eyes are following a feud escalating in Germany over 
attempts to
  impose a copyright levy on computers.



==========> 03-02-27-IDG-GermanysPCCopyrightLevy.txt==========

http://idg.net/ic_1187905_9676_1-5122.html

German copyright levy on PCs worries many
John Blau, IDG News ServiceD=FCsseldorf Bureau
February 27, 2003, 09:10

  Plenty of anxious eyes are following a feud escalating in Germany over 
attempts to
  impose a copyright levy on computers.



==========> 03-02-27-SeattlePI-MSBackedBillWouldDiluteStateAntiSpamLaw.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/110297_spam27.shtml

Thursday, February 27, 2003
Microsoft-backed bill would dilute spam law, state says
Proposal expected to lapse in Senate next week

By CANDACE HECKMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

The state Attorney General's Office has convinced lawmakers that a


==========> 03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImprove.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/5275544.htm

Posted on Thu, Feb. 27, 2003
Bigger selection helps AOL's MusicNet, other pay services
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Attention, all you ``honest'' music pirates: It's time to pay up or shut up.



==========> 03-03-00-ScientificAmerican-LessigsCreativeCommons.txt==========

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=
000C2691-4F88-1E40-89E0809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2

March 2003 issue 
Some Rights Reserved
Cyber-law activists devise a set of licenses for sharing creative works
By Gary Stix 

In a book published in 2001, Stanford Law School professor
Lawrence Lessig decried the threat to the Internet from both


==========> 03-03-01-SJMerc-DG-LOCPostsPublicCommentaryOnDMCA.txt==========

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000822.shtml#000822

March 01, 2003 
Copyright Office Posts Reasons to Curb Copyright Law's Reach
 posted by Dan Gillmor 06:40 AM

The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress has posted the Reply Comments 
on Rulemaking on
Anticircumvention (http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/reply/reply1.html), 
commentary from the public on why current copyright law needs more exceptions


==========> 03-03-01-StanfordUniv-SpectrumPolicyConference.txt==========

Spectrum Policy:
Property or Commons?
Stanford Law School
March 1-2, 2003

Sponsored by:
Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and
Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Full conference details and registration at:


==========> 03-03-02-Suber-DoesGermanysPCCopyrightLevyIncludeRightToCopy.txt==========

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_03_02_fosblogarchive.html#a90363644

   Germany is set to impose a copyright levy of about US $13 on each new 
computer
   sold in that country. The money would go to a fund to reimburse copyright 
holders
   for unauthorized copying. (Thanks to C-FIT.) For some history on this, see 
FOSN
   for 8/31/01 (scroll to the third story). What I can't tell is whether the 
copyright levy


==========> 03-03-04-HoutonChron-GroksterSaysLawsuitGoodForBusiness.txt==========

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1804104

March 4, 2003, 12:29PM
Houston Chronicle
Grokster chief says lawsuit good for business
Reuters News Service

LONDON - The head of an online file-sharing network said today
that lawsuits by major record labels seeking to shut it down helped
raise its profile and attract millions of users and big-name


==========> 03-03-05-Annoy-MPAA-RIAANotEntitledToHighMoralGround.txt==========

http://annoy.com/editorials/doc.html?DocumentID=100465

Wednesday, March 05, 2003
I'm Alright Jack
by Clinton Fein

      No free, democratic nation can lay claim to greatness unless it has 
constructed a
      platform from which springs a moral compact that guides the daily conduct 
of the


==========> 03-03-05-SJMerc-NorwegianCourtApprovesDeCSSAppeal.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5322436.htm

Posted on Wed, Mar. 05, 2003
Norwegian Court Approves DVD Hack Retrial
WILL STOICHEVSKI
Associated Press

OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian court has approved prosecutors' appeal
of a teenager's acquittal on charges that he created and circulated online a
program that cracks the security codes on DVDs.


==========> 03-03-12-CNETNews-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-992371.html

Congress cracks down on P2P porn 
By Declan McCullagh 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 12, 2003, 5:30 PM PT

The U.S. Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again--and this time
politicians aren't fretting over music and software piracy. 



==========> 03-03-12-CNETNews-SuspectedSoftwarePirateIndicted.txt==========

http://rss.com.com/2100-1028-992373.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Suspected piracy ringleader indicted 
By Alorie Gilbert 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 12, 2003, 5:55 PM PT

The suspected leader of one of the Internet's oldest piracy groups has been
indicted, and his extradition from Australia is being sought, a top U.S. 
attorney


==========> 03-03-12-UPI-GermanysPCCopyrightLevy.txt==========

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030312-120912-6894r

Analysis: Germany's copyright levy 
By Sam Vaknin
UPI Senior Business Correspondent
>From the Business & Economics Desk
Published 3/12/2003 12:30 PM

SKOPJE, Macedonia, March 12 (UPI) -- Based on the recommendation 
of its patent office and following


==========> 03-03-13-PCWorld-FoesUseTechTricksToHinderP2P.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109816,00.asp

Tech Wars: P-to-P Friends, Foes Struggle
 Arms battle escalates between P-to-P piracy and copyright-protection efforts.
Malaika Costello-Dougherty, Medill News Service
Thursday, March 13, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The duel between peer-to-peer file-sharing fans and their 
opponents
who want to protect copyrighted materials is turning into a high-tech arms 


==========> 03-03-13-PCWorld-SomeSayFileTradingSupportsCrimeAndTerrorism.txt==========

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109808,00.asp

Does File Trading Fund Terrorism?
Industry execs claim peer-to-peer networks pose more than just legal problems.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Thursday, March 13, 2003

WASHINGTON -- A congressional hearing on the links between terrorism, organized 
crime,
and the illegal trading of copyrighted material produced more complaints about 


==========> 03-03-13-SJMerc-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5384049.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2003
GAO stumbles across T&A on P2P
By John Paczkowski

After weeks of painstaking investigative work and analysis, the General 
Accounting
Office (GAO) and the House Committee on Government Reform were


==========> 03-03-13-WashPost-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOn.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17695-2003Mar12.html

Pornography Prevalent on File-Sharing Services 
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 13, 2003; Page E01 

Popular Internet services that allow computer users to swap
music and video clips also are an easy and free-flowing
conduit for pornography, including images of minors,


==========> 03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetwor.txt==========

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/112665_yahoo15.shtml

Saturday, March 15, 2003
Yahoo! streaming media service will compete with RealNetworks
By DAN RICHMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will introduce Platinum, a streaming-media
subscription service that will challenge the well-entrenched leadership of
Seattle's RealNetworks Inc. 


==========> 03-03-15-Slater-NotesFromHarvardJOLTCopyrightSymposium.txt==========

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2003/03/15#a79

Notes from Harvard JOLT Copyright and Fair Use Symposium
  Just got back from the Harvard JOLT Copyright
  and Fair Use Symposium.  I've posted notes
  here:

  Panel 1

  Boucher Keynote (to be honest, he didn't say


==========> 03-03-18-SJMerc-LATimes-RIAAWarnsCompaniesAboutIllegal FileS.txt==========



==========> 03-03-18-TheRegister-RosensJustificationOfRIAAActions.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29797.html

RIAA chief invokes Martin Luther King in pigopoly defense
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 18/03/2003 at 09:18 GMT

Departing RIAA chief Hilary Rosen yesterday invoked the name of slain black
civil rights leader Martin Luther King as she defended the music oligopolies'
right to prevent people sharing music. She also vigorously defended poisoning
peer to peer sharing networks with junk music - presumably not a situation


==========> 03-03-18-WSJ-RIAAWarnsCompaniesAboutIllegal FileSharing.txt==========



==========> 03-03-19-CNETNews-W3CPatentPolicy-RoyaltyFreeLicensesOK.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1013-993283.html

W3C unveils its patent plans 
By Lisa M. Bowman 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 19, 2003, 10:48 AM PT

The World Wide Web Consortium has released what it hopes will be the final draft
of its patent policy as it tries to create a mostly royalty-free environment 
for Web


==========> 03-03-20-SJMetc-StreamwaveSubscriptionServiceSucceedsInSpite.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5438788.htm

Posted on Thu, Mar. 20, 2003
Streamwaves poised to be tops in Net music
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE THRIVES
By Doug Bedell
Knight Ridder

Three doors down from the Gypsy Tea Room in Deep Ellum, Jeff
Tribble is hatching his plot for world domination.


==========> 03-03-22-Yahoo-DVR-MP3MakerSonicBlueToFileForBancruptcy.txt==========

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=
738&e=7&u=/nm/20030321/tc_nm/tech_sonicblue_dc

Sat, Mar 22, 2003 
Sonicblue to File for Bankruptcy
 Fri Mar 21,11:12 AM ET

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - Consumer electronics maker
Sonicblue Inc.(Nasdaq:SBLU - news) said on Friday it plans to file for
bankruptcy and that it agreed to sell the assets of its main product lines for


==========> 03-03-24-MilwaukeeSentJ-MSReseachersOthersSayP2PCannotBeStop.txt==========

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/tech/news/mar03/128038.asp

Peer-to-peer networks can't be unplugged
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Last Updated: March 24, 2003

                   In the ongoing struggle over digital downloading,
                   technology will let those trading files triumph over
                   the efforts trying to shut down online media piracy,
                   experts say.


==========> 03-03-26-Felten-StatesIntroBillsToExtendDMCAToFirewalls.txt==========

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html

Freedom to Tinker (Ed Felten)
... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify 
the technological devices you own. 
« Finkelstein Replies on ARDG and the Press | Main | MPAA 
Lobbying for State Super-DMCA Bills » 
March 26, 2003 
Use a Firewall, Go to Jail 



==========> 03-03-28-SJMerc-AnalystSaysP2PSharingBiggerThanRecordBusines.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5502291.htm

Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2003
Analyst: Internet file-sharing bigger than record business
JIM WASSERMAN
Associated Press

SACRAMENTO
- Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the
multibillion-dollar recording industry, with a growth trend that has


==========> 03-03-30-Simons-AComputerScientistsViewOfCopyright.txt==========

A Computer Scientist’s View of Copyright in the U.S.
Dr. Barbara Simons

Congress shall have the power ...To promote the progress of science and the 
useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the 
exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries.
- United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8
1.  Introduction.

Copyright is an area that until recently was of interest primarily to 


==========> 03-03-31-CNETNews-FreedomTechnologyAndTheInternet.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-994654.html

Freedom, technology and the Net
By Declan McCullagh 
March 31, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--These are perilous times for online privacy, free speech and the
freedom to tinker with legally purchased hardware and software. 

Last week, the House of Representatives approved a constitutionally dubious 


==========> 03-03-31-Provos-WebPagesMovedOffshore-MichSuperDMCA.txt==========

http://niels.xtdnet.nl/honeyd/

Due to a new Michigan law, the legality of my research or these web pages is
currently unclear. Felton provides additional information about the resulting
restrictions on technology and research. 

The web pages will be reinstated once the situation has been resolved. Please,
support the EFF. 




==========> 03-03-31-Salon-NetworkedWorldPosesManyThreatsToHumanity.txt==========

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/31/knowledge/index.html

Are we doomed yet?
The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that
no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is 
our best
chance for survival.
By Sheldon Pacotti

March 31, 2003  |  I've been talking to


==========> 03-03-31-SJMerc-AdobeEncoreForDVDCreation.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5522611.htm

Posted on Mon, Mar. 31, 2003
Adobe takes aim on DVD market with new software
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - Desktop publishing software maker Adobe Systems
Inc. is expanding into the fast-growing DVD market with a new program
designed to make it easier


==========> 03-04-02-SJMerc-ReducedSWPiracyLeadsToIncreasedEconomicGrowt.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5540543.htm

Posted on Wed, Apr. 02, 2003
Piracy falling, survey reports
STUDY: NATIONS THAT POLICE COPYING SEE TECH GROWTH
By Aaron Davis
Mercury News

Software piracy rates have dropped in nearly every nation since
1996, and the countries doing the most to stamp out copied or


==========> 03-04-02-SJMerc-ShoppingMallOwnerTryingToGetMySimonToChangeI.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5542485.htm

Posted on Wed, Apr. 02, 2003
Simon waging court battle against similarly named Web firm
Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS - Giant shopping mall owner Simon Property Group Inc. is pursuing
its trademark infringement case against California-based Internet
Shopping service mySimon, despite a court setback.



==========> 03-04-03-WSJ-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt==========

http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/2
0030403/ON200304031842001170.var&column=P0DFP

Students Sued in Escalation of Song-Swapping Crackdown 

  Thursday, April 3, 2003 06:42 PM ET
   
  Making good on past threats to target big online traders of pirated music, 
the recording
  industry filed lawsuits against four university students who allegedly 


==========> 03-04-04-MichTech-MTUPresCitesRIAAForLackOfCooperation.txt==========

http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/95/

[Michigan Tech] President Responds to RIAA Suit
For more information on this story contact:
Dean Woodbeck Phone: 906/487-3327
April 4, 2003

Mr. Cary Sherman
Recording Industry Association of America
1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300


==========> 03-04-04-SJmerc-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5558442.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 04, 2003
Students accused of piracy
RECORD SUIT SEEKS $150,000 PER SONG
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

The recording industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits Thursday
against four college students, accusing them of setting up Napster-like


==========> 03-04-04-TheRegister-RIAASuesCollegeStudentsForFileSwapping.txt==========

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30097.html

RIAA attacks the future of America
By Ashlee Vance in San Francisco
Posted: 04/04/2003 at 02:08 GMT

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has attacked again,
and this time against some of our most promising young minds. 

The Pigopolist mob has filed lawsuits against four university students for 


==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpamActivistSuesOverSpamBlockingPatents.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5565843.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003
Spam foe needs filter of himself
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Phil Goldman, a veteran SiliconValley entrepreneur and co-founder
of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's
begun by attacking his coalition partners rather than the enemy.


==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpammerBuysChallengeResponsePatent.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/mike_langberg
/5565050.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003
Spam foe puts his own interests first
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Phil Goldman, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder
of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's begun


==========> 03-04-06-LATimes-BookDetailsNapsterHistory.txt==========

"The Lowdown Download Blues"
       Los Angeles Times Magazine (04/06/03) P. 16; Menn, Joseph 

       The fall of online song-swapping service Napster, which helped fuel the 
current
       battles copyright holders are waging against technology companies and
       consumers, was predicated on a lack of common sense and a cohesive
       business plan. Shawn Fanning's ground-breaking file-swapping system
       created anarchy in the $40 billion music world as technology moved 
faster than


==========> 03-04-07-Wired-BloggerAdmitsPostingWithoutPermission.txt==========

http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58346,00.html

Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying  
By Daniel Forbes
02:00 AM Apr. 07, 2003 PT

Like any number of webloggers trying to make their 
mark with commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew
geography and career experience didn't favor him. 



==========> 03-04-08-LATimes-DisneyMayDoDigitalDistributionAnyway.txt==========

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5585187.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2003
Eisner: Disney is shifting its anti-piracy stance
Los Angeles Times

LAS VEGAS - Walt Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner
said Monday that his company won't let the threat of piracy keep it from
aggressively pursuing business strategies based
on new digital technologies, even if that means rethinking its current


==========> 03-04-08-LATimes-MPAATalesPiracyBattleToStates.txt==========

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mpaa8apr08,1,6928287.story 

"Studios Take Piracy Battle to the States"
       Los Angeles Times (04/08/03) P. C3; Healey, Jon 

       Movie studios are trying to convince state legislators to widen the 
scope of
       laws governing theft of cable and phone services to include new digital 
devices
       and Internet-based products, thus giving the Motion Picture Association 


==========> 03-04-09-Wired-BSASaysSoftwarePiracyImportantToo.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58306,00.html

Focus on Software Piracy Problem  
By Katie 
02:00 AM Apr. 09, 2003 PT

Lately, the business software industry feels like a bit 
of an also-ran next to Hollywood's much-spotlighted war on piracy. 

"We tend to have gotten a little bit lost in the shuffle," 


==========> 03-04-10-CNETNews-IETFDecidesPatentsOKForStandards.txt==========

http://news.com.com/2100-1013-996351.html

Standards group beats back patent foes 
By Paul Festa 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 10, 2003, 8:49 AM PT

An attempt to persuade a key Internet standards body to abandon its use of
patented technologies has ended in defeat. 



==========> 03-04-10-TheTimesUK-IntlFedPhonoIndBlamesPiracyFoMusicSalesD.txt==========

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-640732,00.html



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