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What is unauthorized computer access? Orin S. Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School dives into this undefined area at length. "In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal laws that prohibit unauthorized access to computers. These new laws attempt to draw a line between criminality and free conduct in cyberspace. No one knows what it means to "access" a computer, however, nor when access becomes "unauthorized." The few courts that have construed these terms have offered divergent interpretations, and no scholars have yet addressed the problem." He's looking for feedback... Comments [ ] 10:18:24 PM 
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BlogMatcher helps people find weblogs that match their interests. Thanks, Phil... Comments [ ] 9:43:47 PM
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Tecnorati's API is up, in beta. Cool... can hardly wait to see what folks do with this... Comments [ ] 9:19:57 PM
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RIAA apologizes for cease-and-desist order after they threaten an emeritus astronomy professor, Peter Usher, at Penn State . The report says that a cease-and-desist was issued after the prof's name "Usher" and an mp3 file were discoverd on the Penn State astronomy departments ftp server. The mp3 turned out to be an a capella ode to a satellite the department helped design, sung by the astronomers. RIAA apparently sends the orders without actually listening to the songs... A spider is supposed to have uncovered the file... I'm having a hard time believing it could be the work of the underpowered Cyveillance 'bot (or maybe it was and my prediction is coming true)... Naaaa... So which critter is doing the crawling for RIAA? Comments [ ] 9:09:19 PM
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Cyveillancebot is quite busy on www.gulker.com today: 5:00 AM, 9:00 AM visits and more 'mini thrashes' at 11:00 and noon. Still hasn't crawled this, though blogging ecosystem has... Comments [ ] 1:22:29 PM
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Cyveillance says the term RIAA shows up on 1620 'home pages', Googlebot says it shows up on 442,000. I'm beginning to think that Cyveillance's claim that it provides an Internet content "early warning system" for corporations is without basis in observed results.
When the RIAA failed to notice that their site had been hacked, by a relatively trivial mechanism, observers pointed out that RIAA seemed to be all but clueless about technology, particularly Internet technology.
I think that this jibes with my observations about Cyveillance: its technology does not to appear to be very good (in fact, is visibly very bad in the instance of its thrashing 'bot). The reason that it can command large fees from RIAA and others is that they are even more clueless than Cyveillance is. In the kingdom of the blind, a guy with one severely near-sighted eye can apparently do quite well selling Web services... |
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Looks like Cyveillancebot has thrashed someone else's site. But, how do you really feel... Comments [ ] 10:08:38 AM
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Hit Song Science is another Web service that all the major music companies subscribe to. Interesting... record companies relying on robots to pick hits... Comments [ ] 9:44:08 AM
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Happy (belated) Birthday to Gavin. Keep on bloggin'... Comments [ ] 9:33:02 AM
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Cyveillancebot thrashed www.gulker.com (actually a mini-thrash this time) at around 4:30 AM on May 11, but it was snooping old directories, not the new directories loaded with commentary about it, its owners, its major clients and hot-button terms from DRM to file trading to terrorism. It does seem to have a predilection for downloading copyrighted material... in this case my copyrighted material... Comments [ ] 9:24:09 AM
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