SoCalLawBlog's Jeffrey Lewis reiterates his stance on the naming of Kobe Bryant's alleged accuser in Mark Glaser's article, Releasing Name of Bryant's Accuser Stirs Debate on Online Standards: "the Internet can be a cesspool of rumor, and once a falsehood is generated, it is extremely difficult to be wiped away."
SF Gate article picks up on RIAA and grandma's from yesterday. Bus Driver Bob Barnes says: "What the hell am I going to do?" First, you need to contact an attorney.
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin discusses Congressman Pitts from PA's P2P Pornography Prohibition Act. As Xeni points out the bill would require P2P providers to get parental consent before allowing minors to use their services. That's one way to keep a segment of the population from trading music files. Presumably someone read in Wired that Kazaa is mainly used to trade porn, not swap music and said "Hey, there's an idea we haven't tried." Because their last gambit certainly didn't work.
Derek thoughtfully muses on Cringely's proposed Snapster plan and offers some insight and cites into it's legality. He also points out that the EFF's FVL has posted two interesting legal docs: one is the P2P Porn bill, discussed below, and the other is Bertelsman's motion to dismiss in the tertiary liability Napster case. The latter is definitely worth checking out.
On P2P and file sharing: Would an ftp client, a static IP address and a massive hard drive stop the flow of RIAA subpoenas?
Bad news for Verisign. [Owner of stolen 'sex.com' can sue domain registar; see also the 9th Cir.'s decision (pdf) via FindLaw]
The latest EFFector is out. Go, read, help, support. Also, EFF is putting together a list of attorneys to offer legal support to those individuals getting beaten up by DirecTV.
