Spam Analogy Humor/Amusing 11/5/2000; 8:11:32 PM User Friendly cartoon.

VoteAuction.com Deregistered From DNS Servers Political Speech11/4/2000; 6:36:29 PM VoteAuction.com has been de-registered from DNS servers; that link should not work. To visit the site, you can use the IP address: http://62.116.31.68/index00.htm (this bypasses a splash-screen). Of particular interest is their legal documents section.From what I can gather from the web-law list at egroups.com, which one of the "makers" of voteauction.com mailed (his word, not mine), a Missouri Attorney-General or court ordered, via e-mail, a Switzerland "

BookNotes LinkBack LinkBack 11/4/2000; 6:20:51 PM BookNotes joins LinkBack. Welcome in!

US IP Law Comparisons with Other Countries? General IP Issues 11/3/2000; 10:38:42 AM An interesting Slashdot article.

No More Referrer-Tracking Graphic Administrative 11/3/2000; 10:30:53 AM Now that Userland allows us to see our referers, I'm removing the graphic I placed on my pages about a week ago. You too can see my referers.

LinkBack Back Up (I Hope) LinkBack 11/2/2000; 5:53:49 PM LinkBack is functional again, after the computer has undergone extensive repairs. One 'returning' user, after dropping his class site, is Duncan's Jotter. We also have a new user, YooZoo. Thanks for (re-)joining. Also, array has changed to dangerousmeta. Let's hope it'll stay up a while this time.

Can Napster Secure SDMI? Music & MP3 11/2/2000; 2:52:38 PM 'The new file-trading service that Napster and Bertelsmann are developing will need digital-rights-management technology and could be the key to resuscitating the recording industry's initiative. 'Napster's yet-to-be-developed service might be just the place for the largely theoretical Secure Digital Music Initiative to get its test run.' This is a great example of even a "with-it" news organization failing to take advantage of the strength of the web.

Web Enters Privacy 'Safe Harbor' Privacy from Companies 11/2/2000; 2:48:14 PM 'A kind of data-privacy wall has popped up on the Web, and like the world's better-known walls, it is geographical in nature. 'Safe Harbor, an international privacy agreement approved earlier this year, took effect Wednesday and marked the line between acceptable privacy practices in Europe and the United States. 'The program, the result of an agreement between the U.

The Incredible Shrinking Internet Misc. 11/2/2000; 2:24:45 PM 'The really scary scenario for advocates of open access to broadband is that cable companies have the power not just to slow info, but to block it completely. If Time Warner should hook up with a big search engine, posits Rosen, the company could close the gate to others. 'Already some search engines are accepting money to rank paying companies higher than others, so a query about running shoes will result in a list of products from the advertiser.

Red Herring Trend #8 - Government General IP Issues 11/1/2000; 1:28:43 PM 'The Net was first run by academics and engineers. Then it was ruled by the commercial sector. Now, it's increasingly being regulated by national governments. The next iteration: it will be governed by international accords. That could mean a slowing down of the Internet's incorporation of radical innovation, a shift that will affect companies aiming to overthrow today's Internet with new applications and technologies.