Patento.absurdium

My friend Tyrone the Attorney says the courts will resolve most of the issues with stupid Internet law. That doesn't seem to be the case in Denmark (but it is Denmark, for pete's sake.) I hope he's right about what happens here.

via [Ernie the Attorney]

Dave Winer's thoughts on deep linking decision from Denmark

"In Denmark today, a judge rules against a search engine that respects the robots.txt convention, and stops it from "deep linking" into sites run by the Danish newspaper association. All these court cases are as stupid as dirt. Several good technical preventatives exist...[so] save the lawyer's fees. ... We know for sure that when a company goes to court for "deep linking" that they aren't talking to, or listening to, their technical people. BTW, deep linking is an oxymoron. There's only one kind of linking on the Web. Why would you ever point to the home page of a news oriented site." via [Scripting News]

Amen Brother! The law shouldn't help those who don't want to help themselves. Of course, the site operators may not know about the technical solution. One thing's for sure: most lawyers have zero incentive to figure it out on the client's behalf because it deprives them of the opportunity to file a lawsuit that, while not frivolous, won't win any Academy Awards either. But lawyers file suits to make money, not to collect awards.

RIAA Goes After Corporate P2P

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I have reservations about posting this, since it just helps spread the public scare tactics of BigContent. But it's important in as much as I think P2P can play an important role in corporate information exchange and it points out the need for som epolicies about just how and what can go on a P2P server.

BigContent strikes $1 million deal with Arizona corporation over an internal P2P server with illegal MP3s.