Here is an interesting judgment regarding fair use.
There is a continuum of legality for copyright. Somewhere along the continuum is the ability to use something in a work that you make. For instance, a 30 second youtube video with a baby dancing to a Prince song. Somewhere along the line is outright copyright infringement. For […]
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Here is yet another reason I think we should have a national firewall. I think it is absolutely insane that we don’t have a firewall blocking other countries traffic. We would then be able to block any malicious traffic. If you look at the spam traffic from other countries, we could cut that out immediately.
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Google is being sued by Northeastern and a company called Jarg out of Massachusetts. I actually had heard a bit about Jarg previously. Kenneth Baclawski was one of my professors at Northeastern. In fact he was one of the best professors I had when I studied at Northeastern University. I remember him telling me about Jarg way […]
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Finally, someone is doing something about spam!
You have to hit them where it hurts. Put these guys in jail for a long time, and cost them a lot of money. This should be the same way we deal with gun crimes, and illegal immigration. Hit the businesses that are breaking the law with hefty fines […]
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Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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The good news is that Google is now going to start obscuring the last octet of the IP addresses it keeps on file regarding searches. They are going to wait several months before doing this, but at least they are taking some steps towards allowing consumer anonymity.Â
Truthfully, I don’t worry about these issues too much. I […]
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Finally some good news. Verizon won a case against a new breed of spammers. This is the type of thing I would like to see happen more with big companies like Verizon. They were able to win this because of the way the spam was sent. It is a violation of the Federal Telephone Consumer […]
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