The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in R v. Ward earlier today. The case involved the conviction of a worthless low-life pedophile by the name of David Ward. The police were able to find him due, in part,…
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no privacy right in identity linked to ip address
Tagged with: crime, identity, internet, ip, ip address, policy, privacy, search, search and seizure, warrant
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willy wonka’s ip policy
Ran across the article “What’s Good for Willy Wonka is Good for America” while reading about the sad demise of a company called Miller & Kriesel, which I like (liked?) quite a bit. Ken Kriesel referred to this article in…
Tagged with: infringement, intellectual-property, ip, M&K, Miller-&-Kriesel, policy, Roald-Dahl, theft, Willy-Wonka
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silly lawsuit of the week
OK. Short version of the story in InformationWeek: Woman puts up a website. She puts a “webwrap” agreement at the bottom – i.e. basically a contract that says if you use the site then you agree to the contract. Still…
The Virtues and Evils of Open Source – Part II
Found the article that triggered my previous post – was a piece written by Suzanne Dingwall Williams in her blog. The nub: If you want to sell your own proprietary software, make sure you have a strictly enforced policy against…
Tagged with: development, open-source, policy, proprietary, risk, software, startup, venture-capital
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