"Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, said he has called Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller to appear before his committee "to justify why the 1976 regulations on domestic spying, that have worked so well for the last 25 or 26 years, have to be changed."

Thank god someone is looking into this...

CNN.com - Key Republican blasts new FBI guidelines - June 1, 2002

"Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the ACLU's Washington Office, said the new rules fail to recognize the central problems of the investigations before September 11. "Federal law enforcement failed to analyze and act on relevant information," Nojeim said. "The Attorney General's solution to that failure is to gather exponentially more information." "

ACLU Press Release: 05-30-02 -- ACLU Says Rewriting of Domestic Spying Restrictions Gives FBI New Powers Despite Growing Evidence of Analytical Failures

"Some of these activities will be chilling, there's no question of it," Revell said. "But if the public expects and if the Congress expects there to be prevention of terror activities, there's going to have to be the collection of information, and that collection at times will certainly be problematic to people's concerns."

CNN.com - FBI gets more domestic spy power - May 30, 2002

GrepLaw is Harvard's answer to LawMeme. Some recent headlines:

New York sues Monster Spammer
Cybersquatter King Nailed With Multi-Million Dollar Judgment
Cross Border Disputes in Internet Law
Registrar Market Share Study Expanded to Forbes International 500
RIAA Goes After Audio Galaxy MP3 Service
Stuart Lynn leaves ICANN and More
FBI Forces ISP to Remove Daniel Pearl Video
Which Registrars Do Fortune 500 Companies Use?
Library of Congress Rejects Webcasting Licensing Plan
Eldred v. Ashcroft Update--Opening Brief Filed, Amici Weigh In

GrepLaw: More cyberlaw than you can fit on a floppy.

Zuccarini has been in the center of such cases as Encyclopaedia Britannica's complaint over the misspelled domains Brtanica.com, Bitannica.com, and EncyclopediaBrittanica.com; actress Nicole Kidman's complaint over NicoleKidmanNude.com and the misspelled NicholeKidman.com; Microsoft Corp.'s complaint over EncartaEncyclopedia.com and Encata.com; and United Feature Syndicate's bid for and Dillbert.com. "

Porn 'Mousetrapper' Ordered To Pay Back Over $1.8 Mil

"From the outset, this thesis is difficult to square with basic facts about the Information Age, particularly with the explosion in access to information made possible by the digital revolution. "

This arguement against Lessig is better then most... Of course, I completely disagree with it, but I'll let you find the flaws...

Adkinson Vs. Lessig

Minnesota has passed a very tough internet privacy law. In general it offers all the right things, but the ISP industry is protesting because they claim its too expensive to deal with different regulations in different states and want a federal law.

S.F No. 2908, 3rd Engrossment

"People who provide false data when registering a domain name on the Web could be thrown into jail for up to five years, if a recently introduced bill becomes law. "

Well, THATS a bad idea... Whois is a relic of the past. Why should you be forced to give up your telephone number to the world simply because you want to register a domain!!

The proper way to investigate a host is to look the IP address up in ARIN's database and then contact the ISP it was assigned to.

Lawmakers seek to purify Web records - Tech News - CNET.com

The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific. "

Kazza attempts to avoid lawsuits by reorganizing in a data haven.

Music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits

With little fanfare or explanation, the Library of Congress has rejected the CARP (crap?) determination. And there was much rejoicing... (More information is due out June 20th.)

CARP rejected