Man Pleads Guilty to Rolling Own Botnet: A man, Anthony Scott Clark, rolled his own botnet, using a worm to take over 20,000 computers, which he then used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on eBay and…
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Yearly Archives: 2005
Man Pleads Guilty to Rolling Own Botnet – John Quarterman
Posted in Internet Law
Google Sued for Trademark Infringement Based on Third-Level Subdomain
Google Sued for Trademark Infringement Based on Third-Level Subdomain: It’s no surprise that Google has been sued again for trademark infringement, but the basis of this lawsuit is surprising. Rather than another lawsuit over the sale of trademarked keywords to…
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Posted in Internet Law
Sanity breaking out all over – Larry Lessig
Sanity breaking out all over: First the French, now the Aussies: Reports are the Australians will legalize taping shows from television, and ripping CDs to MP3 players.
Posted in Copyright
Sony: Its Own Worst Enemy – John Quarterman
Sony: Its Own Worst Enemy: Doubtless everyone has heard by now the saga of Sony’s rootkit DRM. On some music CDs Sony has put some Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that it said was intended to prevent copying of the…
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Posted in Copyright
What’s in a Name? – Circle ID
What’s in a Name?: Internet domain names are truly bizarre. There is nothing especially remarkable about them from a technical perspective, but from a social and political perspective they are all sorts of fun. We can have arguments over control…
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RIAA Files File-Sharing Lawsuits Against 751 People…
RIAA Files File-Sharing Lawsuits Against 751 People…: RIAA Files File-Sharing Lawsuits Against 751 People
Posted in Copyright
Law Firms Not Liable in Alleged Web Hacking Case
Law Firms Not Liable in Alleged Web Hacking Case: Two law firms that allegedly surreptitiously accessed an expert witness’s password-protected Web site to show a judge that the witness violated a gag order cannot be held liable under the Digital…
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Posted in Misc
Wireless Nation – By John Quarterman
Wireless Nation: Thomas Crampton points out on Joi Ito’s blog that Macedonia has selected Strix Systems to implement a nationwide wireless network as part of the Internet. This may be the first entire country completely wireless. Crampton suggests artistic uses…
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Posted in Misc
Is a Domain Name Property?
Is a Domain Name Property?: In an article by Sheldon Burshtein, published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, the author examines the view on whether domain names are properties. The following is the abstract of this article:…
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Posted in Internet Law
Investigations into ICANN transparency continue | The Register
Investigations into ICANN transparency continue | The Register: A new lobbying body calling itself itself the Campaign for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) has expanded its investigation into the internet overseeing organisation with a freedom of information request served on the US…
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