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		<link>http://www.bitsbook.com/2010/12/the-fourth-amendment-protects-your-email/</link>
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		<dc:creator>Harry Lewis</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <a href="http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/07/email-and-the-fourth-amendment/">A year and a half ago I blogged</a> <b>Tramadol online</b>, about the case of Steven Warshak, whose email the US government had obtained without a search warrant. At that point the opinion of the court was that no warrant was needed to obtain your email from your ISP, <b>tramadol ordine on-line</b>.  <b>Tramadol mexico</b>, The reasoning was a bit like the original court view of telephone wiretapping--no warrant needed, since after all, <b>Kansas KS Kans.</b>, <b>Order tramadol pills</b>, what did you think was going to happen to your conversation once it left the confines of your house.</p>
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<p>Actually, <b>Oklahoma OK Okla.</b>, you don't have to imagine these scenarios.  <b>Free tramadol trial without prescription</b>, You can go back to <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E7DD1238E033A2575AC0A9649C94659FD7CF">this 1883 New York Times story</a> to read how it worked when all the information had to flow through the Western Union telegraph wires. Western Union bullied those on whom it was dependent. This comes from a description of Gardiner G, <b>buy tramadol online without prescription</b>. Hubbard before Congress.  <b>Buy tramadol bars</b>, Hubbard, whose daughter was deaf, would under-write Alexander Graham Bell's development of the telephone -- and became Bell's father-in-law, <b>where to buy cheap tramadol</b>. The story sounds to me stunningly modern. An excerpt:</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Levitra prices, Facts can't be copyrighted. So if I know something is true, in general I can publish it, no matter how I learned it. But there are limits.  Levitra at albertson, Publishing "hot news" that was gathered by professional journalists is freeloading on the labor of others, and can be illegal as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <b>Levitra prices</b>, Facts can't be copyrighted. So if I know something is true, in general I can publish it, no matter how I learned it. But there are limits.  <b>Levitra at albertson</b>, Publishing "hot news" that was gathered by professional journalists is freeloading on the labor of others, and can be illegal as a matter of unfair competition. <a href="http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/barclays-v-theflyonthewallcom-hot-news-doctrine-alive-and-kicking-will-news-aggregators-be">Sam Bayard has an excellent run-down </a>on the legal history of "hot news misappropriation," which he describes as a doctrine that was in decline only a few years ago, scorned by jurists and nearly useless in practice. But the Internet has given the concept new life, <b>levitra prices</b>. News organizations, <b>levitra kopen</b>, faced with bloggers' newfound ability to skim the cream off a variety of sources and publish the gist almost instantly, are being sued by the original news gatherers. And, in at least one recent case, <b>Florida FL Fla.</b>, winning on the basis of hot news misappropriation.</p>
<p>The case involves a site called Fly on the Wall, which was sued by Barclays Capital, Inc. Fly's creator, Ron Etergino, <b>cheap levitra online legally</b>, claims he does not simply steal the news coming passed on to him by Barclay's clients.  <b>Levitra prices</b>, Instead,<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>According to Etergino, he checks first to see what Recommendations have been reported on Bloomberg Market News.  Then he checks Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters, and Fly's competitors such as TTN, StreetAcount.com, and Briefing.com.  Next, he visits chat rooms to which he has been invited to participate by the moderator. . . .  <b>Osta levitra online</b>, Etergino also receives "blast IMs" through the Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, or IMTrader messaging services that may go to dozens or hundreds of individuals.  Finally, Etergino exchanges IMs, emails, and more rarely telephone calls with individual traders at hedge funds, <b>buy brand name levitra</b>, money managers, and other contacts on Wall Street.</em></p><br />
As Sam says, that "looks a whole lot like good-old fashioned journalism.  And it largely relies on information that is publicly available through mainstream and Internet media reports, IM blasts, <b>Købe levitra</b>, and what appear to be open chat rooms."</p>
<p>A federal judge has nonetheless required Fly to delay publication for long enough to give clients of Barclays and the other market researchers a head start.  And what could be wrong with that, <b>levitra prices</b>.</p>
<p>What could be wrong with that is that it is another way for owners of knowledge, already well protected by copyright laws, to prevent others from publishing the truth. Barclays would have used the simple expedient of a DMCA takedown against Fly if it had been available, but the facts Fly reports can't be copyrighted, <b>levitra australia</b>. As Bayard says, the hot news misappropriation doctrine "creates a pseudo property right in facts that copyright law says are in the public domain."</p>
<p>And the problem with that is Google News and its kin, "news aggregator" sites that link to a variety of primary news sites. These have been contentious as newspapers continue to decline, <b>Ordering levitra</b>, since the ad revenue on the aggregator sites goes to the aggregator, not the news organizations themselves. And when you click on a link at Google News and get directed to the St Louis Post-Dispatch or some other newspaper site, you are unlikely to pay much attention to the ads there, much less to wander into other parts of the newspaper.</p>
<p>All of which argues for sympathy with the beleaguered organizations that create, <b>where can you buy levitra in stores</b>, in the words of Alex Jones's stirring book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Losing-News-Democracy-Institutions-American/dp/0195181239">Losing the News</a>, "the iron core" of the news, the hard facts that are costly to dig out and for which the news organizations need compensation. But using the hot news misappropriation against the aggregators raises serious First Amendment issues, since as Bayard quotes a relevant precedent, "if a newspaper lawfully obtains truthful information about a matter of public significance then state officials may not constitutionally punish publication of the information, absent a need to further a state interest of the highest order."</p>
<p>I don't know exactly where the balance should be struck, but every time I see a plaintiff win a reasonable-sounding judgment against a publisher by means of a creative application of a legal principle that was meant to cover a different situation, I cringe to think how that principle will be used in the future to curtail the free flow of knowledge.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Buy generic meridia, A pair of stories from today's papers put the promise and peril of the digital explosion squarely before us.
The FCC is set to release its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday. There is good reporting on it in both the New York Times and Computerworld.The key catch phrase is "100 million squared"---get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <b>Buy generic meridia</b>, A pair of stories from today's papers put the promise and peril of the digital explosion squarely before us.</p>
<p>The FCC is set to release its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday. There is good reporting on it in both the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/business/media/13fcc.html?th=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;emc=th&amp;adxnnlx=1268482598-0IFKoR9xDJfX/eMliMnwVg">New York Times</a> and <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9170158/FCC_s_national_broadband_plan_What_s_in_it_?taxonomyId=15&amp;pageNumber=1">Computerworld</a>.The key catch phrase is "100 million squared"---get 100Mb/s broadband into 100 million homes by 2020. This is NOT an overly ambitious goal, though it may look to some as extravagant as it must once have looked to bring electricity, and then telephone service, to every rural farmhouse in America.  <b>Buy meridia overnight delivery</b>, Electricity and telephony were not just conveniences of civilization to which some political theorist thought agrarians should have the same access as city dwellers. They were engines of workplace efficiency and economic growth, <b>buy generic meridia</b>. The nation made investments, and supported private investments, in connecting Americans to these resources because it was good in the long run for everyone for everyone to be part of the network. So it is with broadband Internet today. Nor are the numbers ridiculous. Remember, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/189096/google_gigabit_broadband_progress_vs_profits.html">Google is accepting applications to bring gigabit broadband</a>, <b>Køb discount meridia</b>, ten times faster, to some lucky community.  <b>Buy generic meridia</b>, So the connectivity plan is all good. And it is also good that the plan anticipates broadband Internet being the mother of all media in the future, gobbling up telephone and television.</p>
<p>But somebody has to pay for it, and this is a lousy time to be asking taxpayers to foot the bill. If you think that the incumbent Internet providers are going to do the job anyway, <b>Generic meridia</b>, think again. <a href="http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/2637-fios-buildout-is-dying">Verizon is slowing down its deployment of FIOS broadband</a>. There is not enough competition to stir demand (though I would love to think that the Google initiative would create some).</p>
<p>The FCC can collect some money by re-directing the Universal Service Fund, the proceeds from a tax that supports telephone service to those Kansas farms. But a big chunk of the money has to come from elsewhere, <b>buy generic meridia</b>. And a likely candidate is spectrum auctions: Recovering underutilized parts of the spectrum from incumbent broadcasters, putting the spectrum up for auction to raise money, and also using some of the spectrum for connectivity and some for so-called "unlicensed" uses. Excellent, <b>meridia lowest prices</b>.</p>
<p>The incumbent broadcasters, needless to say, hate this part. They see the writing on the wall and have their own plans for a vertically integrated Internet.  The proposed <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704479404575087830555689508.html">Comcast-NBC</a> <b>Buy generic meridia</b>, merger is a perfect example of that: Put the content provider in bed with the content carrier. If that sounds like the way forward for connectivity, read the section of B2B where we talk about how Western Union's exclusive deal with the Associated Press worked out for news dissemination in the 19th century.  <b>Billige meridia Apotheke</b>, Moreover, the incumbent broadcasters don't see any reason to give up any of their spectrum. Except, of course, to paraphrase Scott Brown, it isn't their spectrum. It's the people's spectrum. All the laws about the broadcast spectrum are clear about that, <b>buy generic meridia</b>.</p>
<p>What isn't mentioned in the current reporting on the Broadband Plan is Net Neutrality, <b>buy meridia prescription</b>. That may be just one too many battles for the FCC to take on---the <a href="http://netcompetition.org/Julius_Genachowski-Letter.pdf">scalding letter</a> it received from the telecomms may have scared the Commission.</p>
<p>Now for the bad news.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?ref=us">The Texas Board of Education has adopted new standards for the state's Social Studies Curriculum</a>, rewriting history through a series of party-line votes on individual amendments.  <b>Buy generic meridia</b>, OK to mention Martin Luther King, but you have to talk about the Black Panthers in the same breath. Phyllis Shlafly and the Moral Majority are required subjects. "Capitalism, <b>Meridia sale for man</b>, " curiously, is out---you have to say "free enterprise system."</p>
<p>But this is the worst:<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a title="Ms. Dunbar’s Web site." href="http://www.cynthiadunbar.com/"><em>Cynthia Dunbar</em></a><em>, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut </em><a title="More articles about Thomas Jefferson." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/thomas_jefferson/index.html?inline=nyt-per"><em>Thomas Jefferson</em></a><em> from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.</em></p><br />
Oh my god, <b>meridia</b>, if you will pardon the expression (and even if you won't). Aquinas unseats Jefferson in the Texas school system, <b>buy generic meridia</b>.</p>
<p>First of all, though the story says that the new curriculum "will put a conservative stamp on history," this isn't conservatism. It's revisionism with a political agenda. These so-called conservatives are simply finding common cause with the reviled critical studies movement, <b>Cheap meridia tablets</b>, skeptical that any ideals represented as products of the life of the mind are anything but a political power play. There should not be more dentists than historians on a panel rewriting history.  <b>Buy generic meridia</b>, But where is the Bits angle in this story. It's in this paragraph:<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of textbooks. In the digital age, however, that influence has diminished as technological advances have made it possible for publishers to tailor books to individual state.</em></p><br />
So I guess this is good news, <b>köpa meridia</b>. If the citizens of Texas want their children to be ignorant, the digital revolution has created the technological support for their preferred version of American history. The textbook publishers no longer have to aim for the consensus view.</p>
<p>No more <em>E pluribus, unum</em>, in other words, <b>buy generic meridia</b>. We can just stay the many rather than becoming one through communication and education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/06/an-extreme-case-of-homophily/">Homophily</a> rules. Universal connectivity won't bring us together; it will simply create the opportunity for likeminded souls, no matter how extreme and ridiculous their views, to come together in their own ignorant corners of the Internet. Or the nation. And that is How We Could Know Less, #2.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ultram discount, "There needs to be some legislative changes to the definition of what matter is," the head of the Massachusetts District Attorneys said yesterday, after the Supreme Judicial Court read the state laws very closely and agreed with the defense that lewd text messages were not "matter" as defined in state law. It's [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <b>Ultram discount</b>, "There needs to be some legislative changes to the definition of what matter is," the head of the Massachusetts District Attorneys said yesterday, after <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/02/06/sjc_says_lewd_ims_to_minors_not_illegal/?page=1">the Supreme Judicial Court read the state laws very closely</a> and agreed with the defense that lewd text messages were not "matter" as defined in state law. It's a great example of how hard it is to write laws that both stay current as technology changes, and are not so over-broad, in an effort to cover cases no one has yet thought of, <b>Buy ultram delivery</b>, that they unintentionally wind up criminalizing innocent activities.</p>
<p>Here is the heart of the statute (<a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-28.htm">MGL Chapter 272, Section 28</a>):<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Section 28. Whoever disseminates to a minor any matter harmful to minors, as defined in section thirty-one, <b>order ultram</b>, knowing it to be harmful to minors, or has in his possession any such matter with the intent to disseminate the same to minors, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years ….</em></p><br />
"Matter" is defined <a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-31.htm">elsewhere</a> as "any handwritten or printed material, <b>Indian generic ultram</b>, visual representation, live performance or sound recording including but not limited to, books, magazines, motion picture films, <b>New York NY N.Y.</b>, pamphlets, phonographic records, pictures, <b>Buy generic ultram</b>, photographs, figures, statues, plays, dances." Now that list was drawn up with some care--it obviously includes everything they could think of at the time, <b>Arizona AZ Ariz.</b>, which seems to have been several technological generations ago. I wonder if anyone has similarly challenged whether DVD's constitute "motion picture films".</p>
<p>In his opinion, the judge noted that the legislature had changed the law a few years ago to lengthen the prison term to five years, but didn't bother to change the list of media, <b>ultram discount</b>. So, <b>Acquistare a buon mercato ultram</b>, he concluded, computer to computer communications aren't covered, and the court has to assume the legislature didn't intend to include them. The omission is easily remedied, but  it's not up to the court to do that, <b>cheap ultram online</b>.</p>
<p>So one creep at least dodged a bullet, and the legislature will no doubt change the law going forward. But it's a great reminder that the law is a statement of rules, <b>Ordering ultram online without prescription</b>, not intentions.</p>
<p>And that it gets stale, not just because of technology changes. Until I was browsing the state's web site, for example, <b>order ultram online cheap</b>, I didn't know that adultery was still illegal in Massachusetts (<a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-14.htm">MGL Chapter 272, Section 14</a>):<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>A married person who has sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.</em></p><br />
<a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/277-39.htm">Fornication</a> ("sexual intercourse between an unmarried male and an unmarried female") is still illegal too, but <a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-18.htm">less serious</a> ("punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars").</p>
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<p>It's a good speech, I think. At least it was good enough to annoy the Chinese. A columnist for the People's Daily <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90002/96417/6872648.html">snorted</a> that Google had been reduced to an "ideological tool" of the US government and noted, correctly, that Google is losing the competition with the native Chinese search engine, <a href="http://www.baidu.cn">Baidu</a>, <b>soma without a prescription</b>.  <b>Alaska AK</b>, (Note: You can compare for yourself the search results returned by the <a href="http://www.google.com">US version of Google</a>, the <a href="http://www.google.cn/">Chinese version of Google</a>, and Baidu. But be aware that the link for Chinese Google takes you to servers inside the US, while the link for Baidu takes you, I think, to China. The result is that you may not see google.cn, <b>soma australia</b>, the Chinese version, as the Chinese experience it. When I tried Googling "Falun Gong" inside China, I lost the Internet connection to my hotel room.)</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/22/content_9364889.htm">China Daily</a> simply denies that Clinton is telling the truth.  [A Foreign Ministry spokesman] <em> <b>Soma without a prescription</b>, "said the speech indicated China restricts internet freedom. 'It is a far cry from the truth,' he said." </em>And the <a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6877055.html">People's Daily</a> accuses the US of hypocrisy.  <b>Where can you buy soma in stores</b>, "<em>It is common practice for countries, including the United States, to take necessary measures to administer the Internet according to their own laws and regulations. The Internet is also restricted in the United States when it comes to information concerning terrorism, porn, racial discrimination and other threats to society." </em>The paper goes on to cite Steve Ballmer as one of the good guys. "<em>Noting that most countries exert some sort of control over information, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Friday his company must comply with the laws and customs of any country where it does business.</em>"</p>
<p>In fact, in her speech, <b>Michigan MI Mich.</b>, Clinton, after stirring invocations of the US First Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, conceded the point about Internet freedom having its limits. Here is the crucial paragraph:<br />
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Now, all societies recognize that free expression has its limits. We do not tolerate those who incite others to violence, such as the agents of al-Qaida who are, at this moment, using the internet to promote the mass murder of innocent people across the world, <b>soma without a prescription</b>. And hate speech that targets individuals on the basis of their race, <b>Soma online pharmacy</b>, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation is reprehensible. It is an unfortunate fact that these issues are both growing challenges that the international community must confront together. And we must also grapple with the issue of anonymous speech. Those who use the internet to recruit terrorists or distribute stolen intellectual property cannot divorce their online actions from their real world identities.  <b>Soma without a prescription</b>, But these challenges must not become an excuse for governments to systematically violate the rights and privacy of those who use the internet for peaceful political purposes.<br />
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Now that passage contains a remarkable juxtaposition, <b>order soma online cheap</b>. A grand buildup.  A concession that there are limits to expressive freedom. A citation of the example of mass terrorism. OK, I'm listening, <b>soma without a prescription</b>. The next examples are the usual nondiscrimination categories, presented as hate-speech categories. Now I am getting worried; what counts as hate speech is so often in the ears of the listener.  <b>Buy soma no rx</b>, To be sure, it is easy to imagine a Tibetan rant about Chinese oppression that the Chinese could reasonably tag as ethnic hate speech. This is beginning to sound like a list of exceptions to freedom big enough to put almost anyone in shackles.  <b>Soma without a prescription</b>, Then there is the "issue" of anonymous speech. Secretary Clinton has nothing good to say about it, and then in a flat declaration puts Osama Bin Laden in the same box with millions of American teenagers---in the box of "those use the internet to recruit terrorists or distribute stolen intellectual property." At this point I think the speech loses its operative edge. It leads inevitably to the conclusion that the speech control tools aren't the problem---they are necessary in fact---only the way they are used.</p>
<p>So I finished the speech feeling good; it's certainly better than a speech that emphasized cooperation at all costs, and that might have been expected, <b>cheapest soma online</b>. On the other hand it leaves me unconvinced that the administration actually has a consistent point of view on cyber-freedom.</p>
<p>One ironic footnote, <b>soma without a prescription</b>. The streaming video comes via a service called Brightcove. If you click on the "Information" icon on the video window while the speech is playing, you get Brightcove's who-knew? <a href="http://www.brightcove.com/en/privacy">privacy policy</a>, which explains that "By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.  <b>Generic soma</b>, If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site." Much of the privacy policy does not apply to visits to the state.gov site, which requires no login and hence generates no personal information. But of course viewing the Internet Freedom video does send Brightcove your IP address, which Brightcove treats as "Non-Personal Information." And, it says, "we reserve the right to share Non-Personal Information with affiliates and other third parties, for any purpose." So Brightcove could, <b>comprar soma baratos</b>, for example, sell Harvard University the information that I watched the Internet Freedom video via the wired jack in my Harvard office. Freedom does have its limits, but I might have hoped they fell a bit farther out than that.</p>
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