“cRANKy”??
I followed a story today to cRANKy, “the first age-relevant search engine.” How does an age-relevant search engine differ from an age-irrelevant search engine? According to a press release dated today,...
View ArticleCartoon Consequences
The guerrilla marketing campaign for a Turner Broadcasting System cartoon show that prompted a Boston bomb scare this week has generated a lot of talk. So far the legal focus has centered on the two...
View ArticleInternet and Crime
Three articles I read today about Internet crime created an interesting juxtaposition. A c|net article discussed the affordability of tools for sale to facilitate online criminal activity, a Washington...
View ArticleMission Not Accomplished
The text of the National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism answers the question posed yesterday: what has five+ years of the “war on terror,” hundreds of thousands of lives, and hundreds of billions...
View ArticleTimbuk2 and Target
A friend alerted me to this story: Timbuk2 announced plans this summer to make custom messenger bags by laminating recycled advertising material such as posters, billboards, and shopping bags. Timbuk2...
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Rumplestilts-berg
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg’s youth–he’s 23–explains Facebook’s ham-fisted schemes to weave its users’ personal information into skeins of gold. I don’t believe his purposes are nefarious. As Facebook Beacon...
View ArticleTrade Polls
A friend sent me a link to a compendium of polls an American views of the economy and foreign trade: http://www.pollingreport.com/trade.htm. There’s a lot of information but even a brief look reveals...
View ArticleDictionary Detour
In yesterday’s Internet Law class we discussed trespass to chattels, a centuries-old tort claim that courts have applied to cases involving unauthorized access to another’s computer system. (See, e.g.,...
View ArticleThe Cup Runneth Over
The problem in teaching Internet law is choosing what to cover. There is no such thing as “Internet Law,” not in the sense of an integrated body of legal principles such as contract law, tort law, or...
View ArticleBorat’s Easy Targets
I have not seen Borat: Cultural Learnings of America etc. etc. but I know Sacha Cohen’s Borat shtick from Da Ali G. Show. I ‘ve always found Cohen’s comedic setups, whether as Borat, Ali G., or Bruno,...
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