Money is property, not speech, says Supreme Court: This matters to us, as one of the things the Internet does is create questions about what speech is. I think we need to take a somewhat narrow view, otherwise things like will be accepted as 'free speech'. More on that sometime this week.

A fun comic about CBS's recent of Times Square, replacing NBC's logo with their own.

WASHINGTON 451: Senate bill 486 contains broad and vague language that could affect the Internet. You may not like the pro-drug movement, but this could be too much. Can I get in trouble for supporting an article supporting an article criticizing an anti-drug law? Who knows?

MP3.com Fights Fire with Fire: MP3.com is providing a new service where you "beam" them the contents of your personal CD collection, and you are then allowed to listen to the content of that collection from anywhere on the Internet. The record companies are not amused. Says MP3.com, With each music fan that adds their CDs to My.MP3.com, our position against the record companies grows stronger. "If each of you 'Tell 10' friends about My.MP3.com, we'll have an army of music fans to fight the good fight." Of course, it also massively increases percieved damages... :-)

We'd Like To Have Our Cake And Eat It Too: Napster, in trouble for creating software to extremely easily distribute MP3's, is asking a programmer to take down documents detailing Napster's protocol, which he reverse engineered. The company was not quoted as saying "We believe that people's rights are being unduly constrained in this new Internet era, except those rights as regards to our own products." but it might as well have been.

A new section: Glossary, starting with definitions of Deep Linking and Scraping. New problem need new words, or at least new meanings, but that can keep people who don't know them out of the coversation.

Original Poster of DeCSS Arrested: Norwegian police officers have arrested the original poster of the DeCSS software. Does anybody know anything about Norwegian copyright law? DeCSS would have been legal in the country (or at least less illegal) until a couple of years ago, when the DMCA was passed. Is it even remotely illegal in Norway? Or are they just bowing to pressure?

Excuse me, are you human?: Should it be a crime to command a program to mis-represent itself as a human? Sounds like a good topic for Discussion. "I don't mean to suggest that companies like Nike and J.C. Penney will resort to reach-out marketing in the coming years. But some companies will, and it won't take many companies adopting these technologies before the online community is irreparably poisoned."