] "The action we are taking is intended to protect the
] privacy rights of our customers," SBC spokesman Larry
] Meyer said.
]
] "It's about the fact that anyone can without any effort
] obtain one of these DMCA subpoenas," said Meyer,
] referring to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

SBC Sues RIAA to stop subpoenas

] On the eve of what was expected to be a quiet LinuxWorld
] Expo, Novell shook things up with its acquisition of
] Ximian, a privately held Linux desktop player. Terms were
] not disclosed.

Whoa! Novell must be trying to be a real player again...

CRN : Daily Archives : Novell Boosts Linux Push With Ximian Buyout : 11:00 AM EST Mon., Aug. 04, 2003

] There's no free lunch here. Sun can't placate SCO and
] also respect the intellectual property rights of the
] Linux kernel developers. If there's to be a Sun Linux,
] then it will carry the same phantom taint as Red Hat
] Linux or SuSE Linux or SCO's own UnitedLinux offering.

The game Sun's trying to play with SCO.

A License Paradox

] The decision by the DHS to drum up publicity for security
] patch application, especially for 'critical' flaws, is
] seen as a direct response to well-known complaints that
] IT administrators have not been vigilant about installing
] fixes despite the clear danger of worms, viruses and
] intruder attacks.

Ridge finally got beaten with a clue stick!

Homeland Security: Apply Those Patches!

] What are the chances that Poindexter is still around at
] the end of next month? About 70 percent according to the
] Poindexter contract that began being traded on
] Dublin-based futures exchange Tradesports. Yep,
] Poindexter is about to serve as an example of how
] accurately a futures market can predict future events --
] the very idea that he was espousing.

HAHA!

No future for Poindexter? - Jul. 30, 2003

]
] ASHINGTON, July 29 - The Pentagon office that proposed
] spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential
] terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which
] anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting
] terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online
] futures market.
]
] Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads
] the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that he
] had conferred with the program's director at the
] Pentagon, ``and we mutually agreed that this thing should
] be stopped.''

HAH! That was fast...

Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror

] "The practice of filing thousands of lawsuits is a game
] of chicken, and not a sustainable model for the industry
] or the courts," Mr. Zittrain said. "The overall puzzle
] for the industry is how to truly convince the public that
] this is in the public interest."

This is precisely the problem ... everyone knows that what the industry brings to the table isn't worth so much anymore ... and that there's no excuse for artists to *lose money* on albums (see the Negativland analysis/example) that sell for $20 and the middleman is making a killing on.

] He said there was no obvious historical analogue to the
] scattershot subpoenaing of individuals in copyright law
] enforcement, which has traditionally been aimed at
] businesses or people who are profiting from illegally
] copied material. He likened it instead to raids during
] Prohibition, or red-light cameras that catch drivers
] disobeying traffic laws when they think they are
] unobserved. Both have given rise to social outcry, Mr.
] Zittrain said, even though they were used simply to
] enforce the law.

Subpoenas Sent to File-Sharers Prompt Anger and Remorse

] They are called smart pills or brain boosters or, to use
] the preferred pharmaceutical term, cognitive enhancers.
]
] But whatever the name given to compounds created to
] prevent or treat memory loss, drug companies and
] supplement producers — eager to meet the demands of a
] rapidly growing market — are scrambling to exploit what
] they view as an enormous medical and economic
] opportunity.

Race Is On for a Pill to Save the Memory

] SCO's scheme is already unraveling. Now, after suing IBM
] when it refused to pay up or buy it out, hitting up
] Microsoft for a so called "license" for $10 million (that
] it probably didn't need) and mugging Sun for about $8
] million in "protection" (likely a wash versus the cost of
] a lawsuit), SCO has apparently run out of big Unix
] vendors. HP and SGI aren't saying but they must have told
] SCO to take a hike. As have the largest Japanese Unix and
] Linux vendors, Fujitsu and NEC. So SCO has threatened big
] Linux users with potential lawsuits in a desperate ploy
] to replace flatlining Unix revenues. But most IT pundits
] and the users aren't buying SCO's FUD act. And the reason
] for this is vocal grass roots Open Source opposition from
] the Linux developer community and thousands of individual
] users. It is not what SCO expected when it launched its
] license extortion scam.

Legal commentators weigh SCO's chances

] Members of the Linux community have labelled SCO Group
] plans to hit them with Unix licensing fees as extortion.

Bingo...

LinuxWorld | Linux resellers dismiss SCO licensing claims