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17 Sep 2007

Catch me on Court TV this week Email
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.)

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  posted at: 11:29 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/spamtv.html

10 Sep 2007

Zango verdict is good news for spam filters and blacklists Email

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.

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  posted at: 23:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/zango.html

08 Sep 2007

Spamford Wallace gets sued yet again Email
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.

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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/spamford.html

03 Sep 2007

More on WHOIS privacy ICANN

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?

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  posted at: 22:03 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/whoispriv2.html

Spamhaus Appeal: They Win on Substance Email
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.

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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/shappeal.html

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