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Anti Anti-Spam?
The legal issues surrounding junk e-mail detection and removal continue to discourage internet service providers from employing pro-active filtering techniques. Many ISPs are concerned about being sued for filtering false-positive (incorrect) “junk” e-mail messages in compliance with the various anti-spam regulations currently under consideration in the United States. Service providers are placed in a difficult… Read more →
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Court Rebukes Detention of Children
The Family Court today ruled that detaining children is unlawful. Affirming a previous decision, Justice Strickland said he had “determined prima facie that children are unlawfully in detention and there is a real issue to be tried about that.” Counsel for the children applied for their immediate release pending a full trial which is due… Read more →
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The RIAA’s First Hurdle
Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week evinced the first signs of opposition to an RIAA subpoena campaign against file-sharing activity by predominantly college-aged students. Over the past 3 months, the Recording Industry Association of America has issued 871 subpoenas demanding information from several major tertiary institutions about the use of file… Read more →
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Federal Court Overrules Mod Chip Verdict
In a unanimous decision, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia yesterday overruled its previous verdict that video game console copy-protection schemes comprised a “technological protection measure” as defined in subs 10(1) of the Copyright Act. The result is to prevent the sale of so-called “mod chip” devices which circumvent said protection, and… Read more →
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Yahoo Settles Patent Dispute
Internet giant Yahoo has been the latest to defend a series of patent infringement cases filed by NCR, a United States based manufacturer of ATMs and holder of some 1500 patents. NCR’s 15 recent claims have been brought against key electronic commerce players, claiming infringement of several patents relating to methods of managing and processing… Read more →
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Equality and Law
I stumbled upon an interesting idea in one of my law lectures today: substantive equality is impossible. One refers to substantive (as opposed to formal) equality in the sense that measures are taken in order to reduce pre-existing negative social offset by actively promoting disadvantaged persons or sectors of the community. The thesis is that… Read more →
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Internet Defamation Trial Date Set
In what promises to be a landmark case for internet publishers, Gutnick v Dow Jones will be heard in Melbourne on 3 October, 2003. This case concerns the appeal of one Joe Gutnick, a miner who claims he was defamed by the Wall Street Journal in an article published in Barron’s Online. This follows a… Read more →
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Settling In
The second day back has not proved nearly as tiresome. The repetitive drudgery of attending classes and travelling to and fro is beginning to impress itself upon me, and already the memories of entire days spent frolicking in the meadows are fading into oblivion; to be replaced by due dates, timetable clashes, and the insistent… Read more →
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Adjectival Conjoinment
Here’s something that’s been keeping me amused for the past couple of days. The voice acting is above par, the flash animation is of a high calibre, and the antics of this Mexican boxing mask may (or may not) have you in stitches: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html Read post. Click on link. Hilarity ensues! Read more →
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First Day Back
I was insouciant as I walked through the university gates, this morning. I hadn’t even opened my books since the last class of the previous semester, let alone done any study – not out of laziness or disinterest, but purely due to difficult reprioritisation necessitated by a multitude of tasks all requiring my attention. Nor… Read more →