'Uncle Spam' wants you! Spam & E-Mail 8/2/2000; 2:02:48 PM 'Uncle Sam could become "Uncle Spam" if the government follows through with plans for creating an "official U.S. e-mail box" for every address in America, say industry executives briefed on the proposal.'

Is a Stitch Online a Crime? - Napster Case More Then Music Misc.8/2/2000; 12:31:16 PM 'If the $40-billion global music business thought it had problems with the emergence of a revolutionary Internet tool called Napster, consider the now-terrified needlepoint industry. 'For years, grandmotherly hobbyists, hungry for doily-and-swan patterns, have forked over $6 and $7 for them. Without a peep of complaint, they have provided a steady stream of revenue to pattern publishers such as Cross My Heart and Pegasus Originals.

"If You Can Put It On A T-Shirt, It's Speech" DVD & DeCSS8/1/2000; 1:32:46 PM 'We got word last night that Copyleft has joined the ranks of the named defendants in the DeCSS suit - they received their subpoena yesterday, because they "distribute" the DeCSS source code - on t-shirts.'I suppose this is their reward for being used as an example by Touretzky.It's the logical conclusion of the testimony. What's interesting to me is that this is almost an implicit admission by the MPAA that there are indeed speech issues involved.

Market researcher sues AOL, others for blocking email Spam & E-Mail8/1/2000; 1:03:18 PM 'Harris Interactive said it is suing Internet service providers including America Online for blocking the online market researcher's email from reaching registered participants.'Also named in the suit are Microsoft's HotMail, Qwest Communications International and other Internet service providers. Harris said its email is being blocked even though it contacts only those who have registered to take part in its surveys.

Net marketing firm receiving personal information Privacy from Companies 8/1/2000; 12:56:50 PM 'Columbus, Ohio-based Interhack founder Matt Curtin said he found four sites that forwarded personal information to Coremetrics, despite the companies' privacy policies: toy retailer Toysrus.com and its babies' products site, Babiesrus.com, and sportswear sites Lucy.com and Fusion.com.'

Napster Press Room Music & MP38/1/2000; 12:41:15 PM Not much going on today or yesterday, but I wanted to point to this earlier, except my machine wouldn't read the PDF.In Napster's Press Room, in the legal section, is the document requesting a stay of last Friday's injunction, straight from the horse's mouth.In particular, I've heard a lot of people saying "Napster didn't have to come down, they were just ordered to remove all copyrighted material from the server.

86400 dollars a day LinkBack 8/1/2000; 9:44:22 AM 'a tale of how kishore balakrishnan uses this most valuable thing in the world every day - off and on the net...'

Multimedia 'Napster' Awaits Fate Music & MP37/31/2000; 11:40:37 AM 'Despite the fact that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted Napster a stay on Friday, Scour.net seemed ripe for a similar brow beating at the hands of the recording industry after Judge Marilyn Patel all but dismantled the arguments both companies are expected to use.'...'Despite deals with Miramax and Hollywood Records that allowed Scour to legally distribute certain copyrighted materials, on July 20 the motion picture industry and the recording industry filed an infringement suit against the company.

Bad News, Europe: EC Will Stand By 'Safe Harbor' Deal Privacy from Companies7/30/2000; 12:21:42 PM 'The European Commission announced Thursday that it will move ahead with the data-privacy deal it hashed out with the U.S., despite the objections of the European Parliament that the deal was too weak. The commission said the deal would take effect by November for U.S. sites that electronically gather personal data from European visitors. 'Under the terms of the U.

Napster Wins Court Stay Music & MP37/28/2000; 5:14:00 PM 'A federal appeals court Friday granted a last minute reprieve to online music company Napster Inc., staying a judge's order which had directed it to pull the plug on its online song-swapping service by midnight Friday.'In a brief order, a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Napster could stay in business pending a further resolution of its case.