(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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Judge Cameron’s excellent lecture at the University of Edinburgh is now online.
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 Read more…
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 jokes please.
I guess it is because they have long unpronounceable names, and they don’t clap him adoringly at the UN.
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 Read more…
(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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Seems like Wikipedia has finally been discovered by the mainstream, the article in The Guardian actually does a decent job in describing the strenghts and weaknesses of the encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a great resource because the articles are written, edited Read more…