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17 Sep 2007
Last year I helped some Canadian film makers
do a TV show called
Spam, the Documentary.
Now US viewers can see it
on Court TV tomorrow Sept 18th at 11pm or the 19th at 3am.
(Well, at least the insomniacs or the ones with TiVo can
see it.)
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/spamtv.html
10 Sep 2007
Zango, a company that used to be called 180 solutions, has a long
history of making and distributing spyware.
(See the Wikipedia article
for their sordid history.)
Not surprisingly, anti-spyware vendors routinely list Zango's software
as what's tactfully called "potentially unwanted".
Zango has tried to sue their way out of the doghouse by filing suit against
anti-spyware vendors.
In a widely reported decision last week, Seattle judge John Coghenour
crisply rejected Zango's case, finding that federal law gives Kaspersky
complete immunity against Zango's complaint.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/zango.html
08 Sep 2007
If there were a lifetime achievement award for losing lawsuits for being
annoying, Sanford Wallace would be a shoo-in.
Fifteen years ago, his junk faxing was a major impetus for the TCPA, the
law outlawing junk faxes.
Later in the 1990s, his Cyber Promotions set important legal precedents
about spam in cases where he lost to Compuserve and AOL.
Two years ago, he lost a suit to FTC who
sued his Smartbot.net for stuffing spyware onto people's computers.
And now, lest anyone think that he's run out of bad ideas, he's back,
on the receiving end of a lawsuit from MySpace.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/spamford.html
03 Sep 2007
Last week I wrote a note the ICANN
WHOIS privacy battle, and why nothing's likely to change any time soon.
Like many of my articles, it is mirrored
at
CircleID, where some of the commenters missed the point.
One person noted that info about car registrations, to which I roughly
likened WHOIS, are usually available only to law enforcement, and that
corporations can often be registered in the name of a proxy, so why
can't WHOIS do the same thing?
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/whoispriv2.html
The Seventh Circuit has issued
its opinion in
the continuing saga of E360 Insight vs. the
Spamhaus Project.
While it is not a complete victory for Spamhaus, they did about as well
as anyone could have hoped for under the circumstances.
E360 won on the procedural issue, while Spamhaus won on the substance.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/shappeal.html
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