Posted by: adfram on: November 14, 2008
As with many other previously insignificant aspects of law, copyright law has been transformed with the explosive growth of the Internet and its capabilities. A group of politically active Swathmore students realized this when, in fall of 2003, they managed to get a hold of inter-company emails sent with Diebold Election Systems, the largest electronic [...]
Posted by: adfram on: October 20, 2008
According to the article, “Google as Big Brother: And then there were Four,” at this stage in the evolution of the web and search engine technology, there are four major search engines operating on the web today. The top two contenders are Yahoo and Google, and there’s no question that Google reigns over Yahoo and [...]
Posted by: adfram on: October 6, 2008
The articles in discussion focus on the topic of legislation regarding rights to domain names. As was discussed in class, when the internet first began many people made a “quick buck” buying the domain names to large corporations. Later, when the corporation made an effort to begin a website in their name, they found the [...]
Posted by: adfram on: September 22, 2008
Two senators, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota worked together to re-introduce a bill to the Senate. The bill was an identical version of a bill which had died in Senate the previous year and was known as the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. Although this had been an expected course of [...]
Posted by: adfram on: September 16, 2008
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