e-Property

A couple of headlines on the Grokster decision --

• Legal Victory for File-Sharing (LA Times)
• File-sharing sites found not liable (NY Times)

e-Voting

New Elections Assistance Commission (sounds like Monty Python created the title, doesn' it?) thanks techies for the contributions to e-voting security.

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Sound philosophy for developing policy for this century:

"We live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of Internet innovation," Judge Thomas wrote. "The introduction of new technology is always disruptive of old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well-established distribution mechanisms. Yet, history has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine or an MP3 player." (NYT)

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