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Google's NOT SO virtuous circle

Eric Goldman “snarkily” declares “pro se lawyers arent bringing honor to themselves or our profession,” pro se lawyers who are also AdWords buyers AND SUING GOOGLE over click fraud that is!BUT, what about esquire Goldman? Goldman may or may not be a purchaser of Google AdWords, but he most definitely...

Tags: Legal, Click Fraud, Search Advertising, Search, Government, Google, Copyright, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-06

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Will Wikipedia fail?

Simply stated: according to cyberlaw professor Eric Goldman, Wikipedia will fail. According to Ars Technica, Goldman fancies Wikipedia, but thinks that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction" -- and the online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open" to survive....

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away

Community and content management don't void a site's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does. I was thus taken aback by the legal analysis included in Wired's/Betsy Schiffman's post about Ariel Waldman and Twitter...

Tags: Alteration, Immunity, Twitter, Regulations, Government, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-05-24

NJ court: IP-related info is private

Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....

Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the net

Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the netforgetting the 1st Amendment?Clsoing down a whole site due to one item that may or may not be actionable seems a bit Stalinish to me. Perhaps our esteemed jurist would like to look at a little document called THE CONSTITUTION! Or perhaps he...

Tags: Wikileaks, Miranda, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Lawgarithms Links for 8/20/07

Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:California court invalidates Alienware arbitration provision in online terms and conditions, from Internet Cases by Evan Brown"Among other things,...

Tags: Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-20

American Airlines files suit against Google - It's destined to fail

American Airlines has decided to sue Google because they don't like it when other people use their trademarks in advertisements. Instead of going after the people actually abusing their trademark, they want Google to pay the price for letting it happen in the first place.The same complaint has come...

Tags: Google Inc., American Airlines, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Lawgarithms Links for 8/13/07

Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:Two-word license agreement: "F--- YOU!", from Boing Boing by Cory DoctorowFair Use for YouTube & MySpace Users, from Slashdot...

Tags: Google Inc., BitTorrent, Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Google CEO sends mixed messages to investors, again

Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the Wall Street investment analyst community last month for the Google quarterly earnings reporting ritual; He also addressed the companys own investors today for the Google annual shareholder meeting ritual .What a difference three weeks makes? Or, more aptly, which Google story is the real...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement, core business, shareholder

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Google beware: Does Microsoft lust for Yahoo?

Microsoft and Yahoo sitting in a tree, KISSING!So it would seem, given the “inspired” meet-up of Microsoft top brass with the Yahoo CEO, at Microsoft’s downtown Seattle Strategic Account Summit next week.Joanne Bradford, Corporate Vice President, Chief Media Officer, MSN, has honors at the event, taking to the stage with...

Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Section 230 immunizes MySpace from both conduct and speech, says district court

Evan Brown has a good summary of last weeks Doe v. MySpace decision, wherein a federal district court in Texas threw out claims against MySpace due to the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As Evan describes:Julie Doe, the anonymous minor plaintiff, lied about her...

Tags: Blogging, Compliance, Free speech, Lawsuits, Privacy, Social networking, User generated content, Virtual worlds

Blog posts 2007-02-18

Can Wikipedia withstand the weight of spam?

Will Wikipedia face the same fate of the Open Directory Project -- where marketeers have spammed the site to render it useless. Thats the view of Law professor Eric Goldman in a recent blog post in which he predicts the sites demise by 2010 unless is fundamentally changes its editorial...

Tags: Wikipedia, Wikipedians

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Google Checkout: $20 million AdWords pitch

Upon Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s announcement of Google Checkout June 29, 2006, I underscored: “It’s official: Google launches ‘Checkout’ with predatory pricing model aiming to ‘increase advertising spending’” I have been chronicling Google’s determined, but heretofore underwhelming, Checkout integrated merchant acquisition/AdWords sales strategy since, as I reviewed two weeks...

Tags: ROI, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising, Business Models, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Not thy commenter's keeper

Based on the reactions of many of those who attended oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Barrett v. Rosenthal, indications are strong that the Court will come down on the side of protecting those who provide a platform for, but do not author or edit, third party comments...

Tags: Section 230

Blog posts 2006-09-09

Ruling adds to confusion over legality of keywords

Ruling adds to confusion over legality of keywordsGood News?Eric Goldman thinks that "...this case is good news for search engine advertisers (and, as a result, search engines)..." but I'm not so sure it is such 'good news' for search engine users. The artificial manipulation of search results based on pre-arranged...

Tags: SEARCH, advertisement, search engine, MLS, search result, GEICO

Discussion threads 2006-04-01

Anti-Spyware Coalition news

The Anti-Spyware Coalition has announced the final agenda for the public workshop to be held on February 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. I’m really excited about this workshop, especially since I’m on a panel. The speakers include important folks like Deborah Majoras Platt, the Chairman of the FTC, Susannah...

Tags: spyware, anti-spyware

Blog posts 2006-01-19

Sony's technical and PR fiasco continues

This isn't going away anytime soon, if ever. Sony's use of rootkit technology in DRM software on some of their CD's is causing an uproar all over the blogosphere. People are calling for a boycott of Sony products, not just CDs, but all Sony products. There's even...

Tags: Rootkits, Digital rights management (DRM), public relations, Sony Corp., rootkit, CD, First 4 Internet Ltd., Mark Russinovich, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Follow up on Sony DRM fiasco

After the big uproar over Sony's use of rootkit technology on some music CDs, Sony announced yesterday that they will provide a patch for the copyright protected CDs. However, Corante and Edward W. Felten claim Sony is still not being forthright about the issue. Meanwhile, Eric Goldman defends Sony's...

Tags: Sony Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Adware drama

My apologies for the lack of blogging the past two days. Several things have happened that are worth mentioning. Ben Edelman published a piece on Claria ads being shown by pop-ups delivered through security exploits. In his usual style, Ben presents meticulous documentation including screenshots and a packet...

Tags: adware, settlement, Marketing Law Blog

Blog posts 2005-10-22

Does anyone really like adware?

I bring up this question because adware company reps and adware apologists have been known to make statements about anti-spyware zealots (like myself, admittedly), that we think "our views are the views of every consumer". A few months ago I asked Spyware Warrior readers to respond to a few...

Tags: adware, advertisement

Blog posts 2005-10-19