Rating Top 250 Law Firm Websites

Micah U. Buchdahl of HTMLawyers, Inc. has published his IMA (Internet Marketing Attorney) web site reviews and awards. Well worth a read, Micah has spent considerable time evaluating the sites of the 250 largest law firms in the United States, and ranking them according to his determination of their merits in the following categories: design, …

Subjects: Internet, Marketing

EU Protocol on Internet Speech

From Writ, this article, Can Europe Block Racist Websites from its Borders? refers to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, ETS No.: 189. This treaty is now open for signature by the States which have signed the Treaty …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Free Speech

File Sharing Limitations for College Students

As previously reported, college and university students are under growing scrutiny for downloading digital files using campus provided ISP access. Brown University is the latest institution in the news to formalize efforts to control the parameters of student use of file sharing applications. Keeping the DMCA (PDF) firmly in mind, and with an awareneess of …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights, Privacy

New Net Surfing Survey

The 2002 National Technology Readiness Survey (NTRS), co-sponsored by the Center for e-Service at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business tracks the following data: Impact of the Internet on Work Strides in E-Service Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) Commerce E-Government Trends From the press release: “The survey suggests companies should accept some personal use …

Subjects: Internet

Net Caucus Technology Fair

The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee is holding a Technology Fair on February 12, 2003 with demonstrations by Internet Caucus Co-Chairs, Senators Conrad Burns and Patrick Leahy, and Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Rick Boucher, of the latest wireless, tele-medicine, e-learning, cyber security, online gaming, Internet movies and music technologies.

Subjects: Congress

Monitoring File Sharing Downloads

Copyright and piracy issues associated with file sharing are the subject of news articles, lawsuits and web forum discussion groups. Add another element to this mix: a company whose business is to monitor file sharing traffic from popular applications such as Kazaa and Morpheus. The company is called BigChampagne, and it tracks 25 million searches …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights