Well, kinda.

As Boing-Boing says:

“When The Pirate Bay was ordered shut down by the Swedish courts because it linked to infringing torrents on the Internet, many people pointed out that Google links to whole mountains’ — whole planets’ — worth of infringing stuff. Now…

Sorry for long silence. A bit of a catch up here of some recent very important stories..

Ray Corrigan helpfully reminds me that the Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform has published the…

Pangloss is having a bonza time at Peter Yu’s East:West extravaganza (average session : 6 speakers, 15 mins each!) in HK. This is the most tightly and geekily organised conference I have ever seen. When you have two mins to go, the computer (not the chair!) warns you…

Interesting times (as ever) in the social networking sites/personal branding crossover world. One of the most interesting papers from Digital Convergence HK was by Lisa P. Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law on “brandjacking”, on social networks — the increasing…

Before HK, Pangloss was in lovely Sydney enjoying the hospitality of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at University of New South Wales at SoGikii, aka the conference on the beach at Coogee :-))

SoGikII was bijoux but very interesting. Graham Greenleaf and Ian Brown swapped multi…

(via Ian Brown)

In a remarkable turn of events, Facebook has agreed to add significant new privacy safeguards and make other changes in response to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s recent investigation into the popular social networking site’s…

Excellent comment from Charles Arthur at the Guardian

Against that backdrop, it is hardly surprising that the report is not wildly imaginative. It deals with structure and delivery of content, rather than the content itself. It worries about…

France continues to be an entertaining source of Internet law. The Guardian reports (13 May 2009) that

“The world’s largest online auctioneer, eBay, was today claiming a “victory for consumers” after a court…