Linky Links: September 2003 Archives

One MILLION Weblogs
Technorati tracks over one million blogs

Privacy & Piracy: The Paradox of Illegal File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Impact of Technology on the Entertainment Industry
Senate hearing

Freedom of Information and Access to Government Records Around the World
Freedominfo.org Global survey

Russian Voter Disillusionment Seen in St. Petersburg Runoff

Not Quite the Real Thing but Stars Just the Same
The tribute band phenomenon

Lawyer accused of having cocaine in courtroom
The lesson is: leave the coke in the office

Moby on the RIAA
"i'm almost tempted to go onto kazaa and download some of my own music, just to see if the riaa would sue me for having mp3's of my own songs on my hard-drive"

Spam: This Time It's Personal
Sounds familiar

NetNewsWire to HTML Index

Boiling Brew: Politics and Health Insurance Gap
Employers are pushing more of the costs onto their workers

Librarians in Pornography

Building a Balancing Scooter

Dean's Internet Principles

Concerns about citizen privacy grow as states create 'Matrix' database

Mr. Krabs' Trade Secret Rights in the Krabby Patty: Discuss
Marty Schwimmer: teaching trademark law with SpongeBob

A Stroll Through Patent History

How to Find That Needle Hopelessly Lost in the Haystack
NYT intro to RFID

Guarding Privacy vs. Enforcing Copyrights

The Other Lies of George Bush

Paul Krugman: The War in Iraq and the American Economy
Speech at Berkeley

Using the upcoming.com RSS feeds in MT

TCP/IP over Bongos
Features blinding 2bps speed

Bush's Unofficial Official Secrets Act

Where Are the Grownups in the Republican Party?: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
Obviously not in the White House

JetBlue Customers Feel the Pain
"It made it sort of like I had been betrayed by a friend, rather than by a big company"

Eight Reasons New York Is Better

Confessions of a Spam King

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Bill O'Atrios-- brilliant.

Abandoned Stations
Still a great page

U.S. Is Only the Tip of Pirated Music Iceberg
Pirated CDs seem much easier to find abroad than in the US

Broadcaster Offers to Help Bottom Line With Its Rent
Sirius saves Bottom Line

Nike sues over trademark rights to soccer
Can FIFA trademark USA 2003?

Connect the Dots

Brita Will Pull Ad Mocking City Water

Status Quo for Travel Privacy
What privacy?

Domains Gone Wild!
VeriSign Site Finder Controversy

Happy Birthday, We'll Sue
Happy Birthday is copyrighted until 2030

Clarett Is Suing to Enter N.F.L. Draft
NFL and players violate anti-trust laws?

Does P2P Put Damper on Digital Music Sales?

Air Passengers' Carry-Ons: No, Not Bags, Dinner

Issa, who started recall, now tells voters to reject it
$1.6 million well-spent

Where Did Dewey File Those Law Books?

"I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news," the president said. "And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
Condescend much?

JetBlue Sued For Disclosing Passenger Info

EPIC Complaint Against JetBlue Airways and Acxiom Corp. to the Federal Trade Commission

Cheeseburger and Fries, Wrapped Up in One
Mmmm...fried beef...

An open invitation to election fraud

Think Debate on Music Property Rights Began With Napster? Hardly

Music's Struggle With Technology

Complaint in Dewey Decimal infringment case (OCLC v. Library Hotel)
via beSpacific

Appeals Court Panel Reviews Recall Ruling
"Ninth Circus" looks at the recall circus

Global Rich List

Assessing the new normal
Liberty and security for the post-September 11 United States

UK bans spam messages
but not to business e-mail addresses

Net piracy has five more years of growth
Source: pirated copy of the report

U.S. Allowing Funds to Religious Groups
It's a good thing for BushCo that there's no problem with laws respecting an establishment of religion. Except for that pesky Constitution, of course.

Eating the RIAA's lunch
A VC approach to hitmaking

Talking Street
LES walking tour by cell phone

Shock the Monkey
Matt Taibbi reports on a "startling Holy-Shit-O-Gram from Moscow."

Library catalog system owner sues book-based New York hotel
Perhaps the hotel should follow libraries that have switched over to the LoC system

VeriSign Hijacks DNS Typos . . . And Creates Binding Contracts?

High Tuition Debts and Low Pay Drain Public Interest Law

Law Schools Seek to Regain Ability to Bar Military Recruiters

Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure.

Hitler at Home on the Internet

Turn On. Tune In. Download.

Law & Order & Law & Order & Law & Order & Law & Order ...
It's everywhere!

The Loon at the Front of the Room
Jeff Cooper brings talk like a pirate day to his Civ Pro class. Yarr!

Paul's Boutique Samples and References List (Beastie Boys Dust Brothers)

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly
What's the probability of an anti-trust suit?

Giant rodent astonishes science
Best headline of the week

U.S. judiciary opens its arms to 5 Russians

The refined WTC site plan
One optimistic evaluation

Apple may take Apple to court
Jobs: "It's a trademark dispute... We might have to get a judge to decide on it."

Disputes Erupt Over Service for Poor Internet Typists
Verisign broke the Internet

I suppose it's only a matter of time before the record labels sue 'em

Gates Gives Money to New York City to Start 67 Schools
Gates Foundation donates $51.2 million

Word Pirates
Prepare to be boarded, ye scurvy knaves!

His Beyonce, Her Beatles
An NYT Primer on File Sharing

JetBlue Shared Passenger Data
But they have DirecTV!

Is It Wrong to Share Your Music? (Discuss)

'Miscalculation' could mean the end of caviar
Beluga sturgeon could be driven to extinction

Fun With Bush v. Gore - The 9th Circuit moons the Supreme Court
This time, it's personal

Loving Stout for All the Right Reasons

Happy Hour Mob #2
Obtain drinking money. Keep it handy.

Dear Leader
"A noble flight suit embiggens the smallest man"

Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
eBay bends over backward to provide data to law enforcement

Blame Fassel
The Giants should have won on Monday

Courthouse Rock
Newsweek on the RIAA lawsuits

Senator Takes a Swing at RIAA
Legislation addresses DRM and consumer privacy under DMCA subpoena power

Supply Side Jesus
An excerpt from Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them

Kicking Ass
The DNC blogs

Are you in a NYC hurricane evacuation zone?

Court scrutinizes P2P subpoena process
DC Circuit evaluates subpoena process and power under the DMCA

Students unfazed by piracy

An Interview With Paul Krugman
Really upbeat

From: The Shire, To: Mordor
Maps and Walking Directions

Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law

High-speed Channel rail link opens
In the states, high-speed rail isn't expected anytime soon

Crossroads for Online Wine Sales

Bush v. Gore Outlives Its Limited Warranty for Use in California
9th Circuit recalls the recall

Can the RIAA Truly Give Illegal Distributors "Amnesty"?
And If So, Should They Accept?

SBC Won't Name Names in File-Sharing Cases
"We are opposing these subpoenas because under the R.I.A.A.'s interpretation, they are a threat to consumer privacy and safety."

Recording industry sues parents
Should parents be liable for their children's p2p use?

Women's Soccer League Folds on Eve of World Cup

The RIAA Prank: Do They Really Care About Kazaa, Grokster, and Napster?
Almost funny

Time Warner Sues Apt. Over Wireless Theft
Note that iNYC Wireless is not NYCwireless

Music Lawsuit Targets Ind. Karaoke Bar
License to karaoke

One Queer Contract
TSG has the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy performer contracts

Wal-Mart seeking its green acre in N.Y.C.
I've never been to a Wal-Mart. Let's keep it that way

How Much is Inside a Sharpie?

Copying, Cutting and Pasting, and Synthesizing
Record labels as service providers

Late Night With Conan is 10
Ten years of highlights at Gothamist

Misleader
A daily chronicle of Bush administration distortion, from MoveOn.org. Where's the RSS feed?

'Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy': The Legal Theory of No Legal Theory
Posner, pragmatism and formalism