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22.12.04

Man (21) Receives 6-Month Federal Prison Sentence for Breaking Into NASA Computer as a Minor (17)

Autralian Police Get Spyware Powers

21.12.04

German Postbank Phishers Arrested

MD Antispam Law Held to Violate Commerce Clause

17.12.04

Wardriver Gets 12-15 Years in Lowes Hack

14.12.04

DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years

Parental Eavesdropping Not Legal in Washington State

12.12.04

Supreme Court to Hear P2P (Grokster) Case

10.12.04

M$ Contests Patent Decision

New Law Targets Digital Peeping Toms from Tim

9.12.04

Sprint Sued over Alleged Vice Hacks

8.12.04

The Electronic Evidence Information Center

A Computer Forensic Methodology for Ireland by McGrath, Niall, Mícheál Ó hÉigeartaigh & Pramod Pathak

7.12.04

Lamparello V Falwell: Anti-Falwell "Typo" Site Ruled Infringing: The Site is Still Up at Fallwell.com

6.12.04

"In another win for due process, Judges Sam Sparks and Lee Yeakel ruled that recording industry lawsuits in the Western District of Texas would have to proceed individually -- rather than 150+ "Does" at a time. See PDF Order. As the judges noted, the RIAA members' practice violates the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Rule 20(a), joinder, requires that parties be linked in the "same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences."

Moreover, The filing fees for the recent four cases totaled $600, whereas the filing fees for 254 separate cases would have been $38,100. That is a considerable loss of revenue to the public coffers."

From Wendy Seltzer's Blog

Musicians Sing Different Tune on File Sharing

4.12.04

Berkeley Breach Sparks Legislative Backlash: Researchers May be Denied Access to CA Resident Data Under New Law