Has reason returned to the land of DMCA? The jury in the Elcomsoft case seems to have decided it should! Here’s the important part of the jury instructions, to my mind:
“Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said”
Haven’t heard that point made lately, have you? 🙂
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Despite numerous warnings, I had another staff person take the afternoon off and leave their email logged in today. This time I went a step further, I sent them an email from their own PC, and their own email account. Let’s see if that hits a little closer to home.. Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Note to self: Later, read through all the responses to this slashdot thread about what you would include in an IT toolkit. Looks like there are some pretty good tools and ideas running around in there, but I need to do some work and can’t really look at them all right now. (link via nf0)…
I got an email this morning from a long-lost blogger, Brad Murphy. Some of you long-time readers may remember back a few years ago when Brad was trying out his hand at blogging, but life got in the way and he had to give it up. Now he’s back with The Late Night Geek-Out. (The…
I wanted to add my whole-hearted agreement with my wife’s post from this evening. Coming home tonight to discover just how awful things are, and how much of what I visited last summer is gone, really puts the stress of starting a new job in perspective, doesn’t it? It’s nice to know that I’m now…
Now that even hotmail is letting you choose to not display images in email is the banner ad in email a lost cause? And if so, will services like Yahoo! Groups, which inserts a banner in all the list emails sent throught their lists, have to start charging or switch to text ads only? Follow…
Some random thoughts from looking at traffic patterns for this site: Most of you read while you’re working. Not surprisingly, since I mostly blog about work, while I’m working. 🙂 Traffic peaks mid-week generally and drops slightly on Friday before dropping significantly over the weekend. The drop in traffic on weekends is less in the…