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Home 17 Sep 2007 Catch me on Court TV this week Email Last year I helped some Canadian film makers do a TV show called Spam, the Documentary. Now US viewers can see it on Court TV tomorrow Sept 18th at 11pm or the 19th at 3am. (Well, at least the insomniacs or the ones with TiVo can see it.) See more ... posted at: 11:29 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spamtv.trackback 10 Sep 2007 Zango verdict is good news for spam filters and blacklists Email Zango, a company that used to be called 180 solutions, has a long history of making and distributing spyware. (See the Wikipedia article for their sordid history.) Not surprisingly, anti-spyware vendors routinely list Zango's software as what's tactfully called "potentially unwanted". Zango has tried to sue their way out of the doghouse by filing suit against anti-spyware vendors. In a widely reported decision last week, Seattle judge John Coghenour crisply rejected Zango's case, finding that federal law gives Kaspersky complete immunity against Zango's complaint. See more ... posted at: 23:29 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/zango.trackback 03 Sep 2007 More on WHOIS privacy ICANN Last week I wrote a note the ICANN WHOIS privacy battle, and why nothing's likely to change any time soon. Like many of my articles, it is mirrored at CircleID, where some of the commenters missed the point. One person noted that info about car registrations, to which I roughly likened WHOIS, are usually available only to law enforcement, and that corporations can often be registered in the name of a proxy, so why can't WHOIS do the same thing? See more ... posted at: 22:03 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/whoispriv2.trackback Spamhaus Appeal: They Win on Substance Email The Seventh Circuit has issued its opinion in the continuing saga of E360 Insight vs. the Spamhaus Project. While it is not a complete victory for Spamhaus, they did about as well as anyone could have hoped for under the circumstances. E360 won on the procedural issue, while Spamhaus won on the substance. See more ... posted at: 18:28 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/shappeal.trackback

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