Archive for April, 2007
No Cause Title
No I wont spare the sentiment.. 5 years of law school ends soon, heres an, Adieu to Law School _________________________________ Let me face it I did not end up here by deliberate waltz I landed here by accident. Grow over the rationalisation and reinforcement. I rushed in here like a wild stallion. Oh how some [...]
Codifying the Blogger Commandments
A Long Prologue _______ In my last post I pointed somewhat obliquely, to the “norms-market-architecture-law quadrilateral” as expounded by lawrence lessig. The first wall of this quad, is well norms. A person may ask as to the efficacy of a voluntary norm controlling activity. Well it does, and quite effectively, which may be explained through [...]
What’s so great about Code?
Aha! I was repeatedly exclaiming! The mental hiccups caused by swallowing Lawrence Lessig’s, Code and other laws of Cyberspace when I first read it in 2004. You can make it out from the first page itself that the book is going to alter the way you think about the Internet. It has special relevance for [...]
Free Bird
There was a time when drug abuse and inciting riots were the cited as the most prevalent acts of illegalities in rock and roll. Then copyright law caught up. I recently read the case of Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517 (1994), which involves plagiarism. What is particular (or ridiculous) is that in the [...]
A Primer on "the scene"
Lawyers often take on themselves of being the bulwarks of jargon, however it is ironic when they are faced with techno jargon. Well welcome to “the scene”, the jargon of the underground level of piracy networks, which release copyrighted material which peculates to the netizens.It is common knowledge that most movies available on the internet [...]
Saving Private Peters from Private Robs
__________________________________________ Private Robs: “So you and Angelina… huh” Private Peters: “It’s none of your business” Private Robs: “Why? I just clicked your pictures with her having a happy meal” Private Peters: “Ill sue for invasion of my privacy” Private Robs: “HA HA HA HA” [Evil Mr. Burns Laugh] “GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY” ____________________________________________ The [...]
Know thy enemy : Lessons from thepiratebay.org
The internet it seems is a virtual minefield for intellectual property rights. The problem without condensing an academic mist on the subject is quite simply, enforcement. Though it does not seem to deter an enthusiastic attorney from e-mailing a, “cease and desist” notice to the, “alleged infringer’s”. It does not require the fortitude of Locke, to [...]
Its not Myopic Vision, Its Just Cancer
In the highly enjoyable bestseller, Freakonomics, the authors, set out several hidden cause and result relationships. Chapter 4: Where Have All the Criminals Gone, describes how the United States Supreme Court Decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalised the right to abortion(s) can be credited, to, “tipping the scales”, against the rising crime graph in [...]
