This site will be covering moot issues if technology like the Real Networks tracker is accepted... and moving over seas won't work for everybody...
And in the other corner, for the "Internet regulation simply awaits the development of the appropriate technology" team, RealNetworks Helps Pay Piper RealNetworks will integrate AudioSoft's copyright management technology that tracks the webcasters' Internet streams into its popular RealSystem G2 platform.
In the this corner, on the "You can't regulate the internet, it's too big and international" team, we have Down Under Smut Goes Up Over, wherein an Australian site ordered to remove certain content by the Australian government simply relocates to the United States and server Australia from there. "Technically, they have complied with the take-down notice we issued," ABA special projects manager Stephen Nugent said.
Today, two contrasting stories:
What few excuses they have fabricated ("We're doing it so you don't see the same ad too often...") are totally invalidated in light of this information. I recommend that you look at junkbusters.org and look in to the proxy server they offer...
Richard M. Smith is giving the name 'web bugs' to image tags that track your web usage on sites that use them. He has a FAQ the topic, and guess what? The recent Doubleclick tracking fiasco only tells half the story. It's worse then you think; some sites that aren't affilited with DoubleClick are helping them track you anyhow! (This was actually news to me; check it out even if you've been following DoubleClick in the news.)
"UCITA is a proposed law, designed by the proprietary software developers, who are now asking all 50 states of the US to adopt it. If UCITA is adopted, it will threaten the free software community(1) with disaster." Forget free software, it threatens the consumers (for the same reasons it threatens free software)!
Richard Stallman wrote an article for Linux Today called "Why We Must Fight UCITA". UCITA hasn't come up since I started this site, but it is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation I know of, where corporations are attempting protect their "right" to milk us of our money with bug-ridden programs, and leave us no way to defend ourselves against it. I'd love to know if there's some good summary of UCITA I could point to.
I'm still at work on the What Is A Web Page? page, but I've finished a new glossary entry: URL. If you're not a tech wizard, you may not really know what a URL is, which is importent to understand Deep Linking, among other things.