Blogger in trouble over blog

The BBC reports that stewardess (sorry, air hostess) Ellen Simonetti, known in blogging circles as Queen of the Sky, has been suspended for posing for photographs that appeared in her blog. She is wearing a Delta Airlines uniform and is posing revealingly, but nothing spectacular. I wonder, how did the good people at Delta find out? [...]

The Lancet estimates 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths

(Link requires registration, again, use Bugmenot). An article in the influential medical journal The Lancet estimates that the war in Iraq has produced an excess mortality of 100,000 civilians. The estimates are the highest yet, but the journal editors have said that these are only conservative estimates. and that civilian casualties could be higher. The study [...]

Creative Commons article in The Guardian

Creative Commons keeps making its unstoppable stride into the mainstream with the publication of yet another newspaper article. The article concentrates on music, as most of these do, but it is a rather good attempt to explain what the movement is all about.

The CC-UK project is still going through consultation and redraft process. Good luck to [...]

Judge Cameron Lecture now online

Judge Cameron’s excellent lecture at the University of Edinburgh is [...]

More about Bush’s website international blocking

The Register comments on the strange blocking of international addresses by Bush’s website. For one, it is thought that this may try to prevent attacks from Denial-of-Service attacks.

Could it be simply that Bush doesn’t know that the rest of the world exists? Surely, he must know that Iraq is not somewhere [...]

Spammer trial begins

Three people are being charged in Virginia for breaking the state’s anti-spam legislation. They could get up to fifteen years sentence if convicted. We don’t like spammers, but 15 years? Seems a bit excessive!

And no Monty Python [...]

Bush doesn’t like them foreigners!

I guess it is because they have long unpronounceable names, and they don’t clap him adoringly at [...]

Interesting eBay case

Grace v eBay is a new case in California (where else?) that is posing some interesting questions about intermediary liability, unfair contract clauses and online defamation. The case was brought by Roger Grace, an eBay seller who was subjected to a defaming campaign by another eBay user, who bought several items from him and then posted [...]

European domain name goes live

(Warning: The link requires registration. Are your tired of all of those sites that require registration? Why not use Bugmenot?). The Times Law section has a great article about the registration process for the .eu top level domain name. The registration process will be in phases. In phase one those with registered trademarks, public bodies and [...]

Music download case in Australia

This is a new case against a site that offered MP3 music. The problem is that the article is not clear on the type of technlogy that was being used to serve the files. It seems that the accused was not serving files, but was offering hyperlinks to other sites that hosted the files. This makes [...]