Postings from John Levine on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-05-16T09:51:00-08:00 118 47 http://www.circleid.com/images/logo_rss.gif http://www.circleid.com/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/851610_sanford_wallace_sued_myspace http://www.circleid.com/posts/851610_sanford_wallace_sued_myspace More...]]> 2008-05-16T09:51:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/85410_jeremy_jaynes_more_chance http://www.circleid.com/posts/85410_jeremy_jaynes_more_chance discussed in more detail at the time the key questions were a) whether the Virginia law had First Amendment problems and b) whether Jaynes had standing to challenge it. The court answered No to b), thereby avoiding the need to answer a), the dissent answered Yes to both. More...]]> 2008-05-04T10:44:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/84308_colorado_new_spam_law http://www.circleid.com/posts/84308_colorado_new_spam_law a new anti-spam law [PDF] into effect. Since CAN SPAM draws a tight line around what states can do, this law is mostly interesting for the way that it pushes as firmly against that line as it can. Other observers have already done a legal analysis of the way it's worded to avoid being tossed out as the Oklahoma law was in Mummagraphics, and to make it as easy as possible for suits to meet the falsity or deception limits in CAN SPAM. To me the most interesting part of this law is its one-way fee recovery language... More...]]> 2008-04-30T08:29:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/84217_icann_gnso_kill_domain_tasting http://www.circleid.com/posts/84217_icann_gnso_kill_domain_tasting proposed anti-tasting policy written in March. On Thursday the 17th, the GNSO put the proposed policy to a vote, and it passed overwhelmingly. Under ICANN rules, the ICANN board has to take up the resolution at its next meeting, and since it was approved by a supermajority, it becomes ICANN policy unless 2/3 of the board votes against it, which in this case is unlikely. More...]]> 2008-04-21T06:59:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/841110_comcast_vs_e360 http://www.circleid.com/posts/841110_comcast_vs_e360 here and here), and to put it mildly, he agreed with Comcast. It starts: "Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an Internet marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer." ...and from E360's viewpoint, goes downhill from there. More...]]> 2008-04-11T10:40:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/sender_address_verification http://www.circleid.com/posts/sender_address_verification callout, doing a partial mail transaction to see if the putative sender's mail server accepts mail to that address. This approach was popular for a few years, but due to its combination of ineffectiveness and abusiveness, it's now used only by small mail systems whose managers don't know any better. What's wrong with it? More...]]> 2008-04-07T08:00:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83266_third_interesting_round_e360_comcast http://www.circleid.com/posts/83266_third_interesting_round_e360_comcast counterclaim. The court granted the motion on Monday so the counterclaim has been filed. At about the same time, E360 filed its response to Comcast's previous motion to dismiss the suit due to its utter lack of legal merit. More...]]> 2008-03-26T18:17:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83207_more_the_soloway_spam_case http://www.circleid.com/posts/83207_more_the_soloway_spam_case More...]]> 2008-03-20T07:03:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83158_robert_soloway_pleads_guilty http://www.circleid.com/posts/83158_robert_soloway_pleads_guilty More...]]> 2008-03-15T20:12:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83610_comcast_fires_back_at_e360 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83610_comcast_fires_back_at_e360 More...]]> 2008-03-06T09:19:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/83410_anti_phishing_consumer_protection_act http://www.circleid.com/posts/83410_anti_phishing_consumer_protection_act More...]]> 2008-03-04T10:06:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/82289_more_on_front_running_class_action http://www.circleid.com/posts/82289_more_on_front_running_class_action this one [PDF] at Lextext. Having read it, I'm rather underwhelmed... I do not purport to be a lawyer (nor do I usually play one on the net), but it's hard to see how the facts, which are not in serious dispute, would support any of these charges. More...]]> 2008-02-28T08:33:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/front_running_lawsuit_network_solutions http://www.circleid.com/posts/front_running_lawsuit_network_solutions press release, Los Angeles law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner says it's filed a class action suit against Network Solutions and ICANN for front running. (If you tuned in late, NetSol admits that if you query a domain name on their web site, they will speculatively register it so that it's only available through NetSol for five days, at their above market price.) This is a very peculiar suit... For one thing, it's hard to see how the total class damages would be large enough to be worth a suit... More...]]> 2008-02-27T09:49:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/82680_neustar_afilias_no_domain_tasting http://www.circleid.com/posts/82680_neustar_afilias_no_domain_tasting a message posted to the ICANN GNSO list, Avri Doria forwarded along a most interesting document from Neustar, who runs the .biz domain... Neustar proposes to change their registrar agreement so that each registrar will only get credit for deletions of 10% of their new domains, with a few minor exceptions for tiny registrars and bulk registrations due to one-time mistakes. They say they expect Afilias to propose the same change for .info. More...]]> 2008-02-06T08:50:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/81299_domain_tasting_ends http://www.circleid.com/posts/81299_domain_tasting_ends domain tasting and NSI's frontrunning, which it certainly will. It's not clear when this change will go into effect, but it might be within a month. More...]]> 2008-01-29T09:30:00-08:00