Category Archives: Internet

Restitution Blog Posts

August 25, 2008 – 4:35 pm

Anyone who loves restitution law will have been aware for some time of the Restitution Legal Resource page, maintained by Steve Hedley. It’s a fantastic resource for restitution scholars.
Now Steve has added a page of restitution-related blog posts. How awesome is that? I’m proud to say that a few of them have been penned by [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Academia, Blogging, Law, Restitution | Comments (3)

A weird obsession

August 2, 2008 – 8:43 pm

I was having lunch with one of my oldest friends today, and she reminded me of the weird obsession which took hold of me about a year ago now. That obsession was World of Warcraft, to which I was addicted for about five months, before going cold turkey and quitting.
It all started when my husband [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in General, Personal, Popular culture | Comments (13)

Lulz and legals bleg

June 3, 2008 – 7:56 am

I’m going to reveal my technical idiocy here, but I can’t think of any other way around it.
Legal Eagle and I have had a few requests, both online and offline, for a post on the legal issues arising out of the ongoing Spin Starts Here/Lulz Starts Here imbroglio. Yesterday, we thought we pretty much had [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging, Law | Comments (10)

Defamation and anonymous blogging

October 22, 2007 – 11:40 pm

Has anyone else ever put comments up in online forums, or in response to newspaper stories or blog posts? If you’re reading this post, I suspect that you might have been tempted to do so. You know the drill then. You are required to enter your name in a box headed “Name”, and then you [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging, England, Law, Media, Privacy, Technology | Comments (10)

Facebook Freddi

August 16, 2007 – 12:26 am

I’ve recently become addicted to Facebook. It’s great. I’ve managed to get in touch with friends with whom I hadn’t spoken for almost 20 years, and to stay in better contact with others. Another friend of mine is less keen. “I’m really worried about the privacy issues”, she told me. Initially I wasn’t so concerned, [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Privacy | Comments (1)

AUSTLII needs funds

May 30, 2007 – 7:54 pm

Any Australian lawyer worth her salt is aware of AUSTLII. (Unless you have been living under a rock for the last 20 years?)
As part of my PhD, I am investigating law from all over the world: including Australia, England, Canada, the USA, Ireland, Israel, France, Germany… Australia is streets ahead of any of those other [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Comments (6)

The long arm of US law

May 8, 2007 – 5:28 pm

I’ve written a post earlier on the case of Hew Raymond Griffiths, an Australian resident who has been extradited to the US on charges of software piracy and conspiracy. I noticed today that this issue has come up in the news again.
Griffiths was born in the UK and remains a British citizen, but has lived [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Intellectual property, Law, Technology | Comments (15)

The biter bit?

April 21, 2007 – 11:09 pm

A Chinese dissident and his wife are suing Yahoo! Inc (”Yahoo”) in a United States District Court (with the help of the World Organisation for Human Rights USA). The Complaint states that Yahoo “willingly provided Chinese officials with access to private e-mail records, copies of email messages, e-mail addresses, user ID numbers, and other identifying [...]

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USA says: You’re nicked, sonny…

February 19, 2007 – 9:55 am

Both skepticlawyer at Catallaxy and Shaun Cronin at LP have written posts on the case of Huw Griffiths (reported here).
Griffiths is a former internet software pirate who cracked and downloaded software and distributed it for free. He has been charged under US Copyright law, and charged by a US grand jury (equivalent of a committal [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Intellectual property, Law | Comments (5)

Kitlers

January 20, 2007 – 8:27 am

Sometimes you find really weird things on the Internet (understatement of the century). The latest site I’ve found is called “Cats that look like Hitler“. You know the cats, those black and white ones with a little black spot of fur under their noses (like a mustache)? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Fark! | Comments (2)