Category Archives: Internet

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Would I lie to you, honey?

January 15, 2007 – 9:56 pm

It seems that the doubts expressed my earlier post about the accuracy of information acquired via e-mail were well founded. A recent study has found that office workers are most likely to lie to their bosses via e-mail or telephone. Employees are least likely to lie with face-to-face communication, particularly where they feel close to [...]

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Sharing mp3s on the Web

December 22, 2006 – 10:49 am

Just found this interesting blog post on the Full Federal Court’s recent decision in Cooper v Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd [2006] FCAFC 187. The decision concerned a website set up with links which allowed people to download mp3s. The Federal Court found that the website contravened Australian copyright law. The author of the post [...]

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