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Spammer, Anti-Spammer Involved In
Lawsuit Will Hold Public Debate

Spammer, Anti-Spammer Involved In
Lawsuit Will Hold Public Debate 05/20/2004 11:41 PM
Julian Haight, the founder of anti-spam service SpamCop, and Scott Richter, the founder of spamming service OptInRealBig, are currently in the middle of a fairly nasty legal battle over whether or not SpamCop can block OptIn's spam. Still, the two have agreed to appear together in public and debate the topic. Both of their lawyers say that the debate will avoid the issue of the lawsuit, but as the article points out, that seems unlikely. The thing is, in listening to what both sides have said over the years, you already know what they're going to say in this debate - and they're talking at cross purposes. The spammers focus on their right to make money, while everyone else talks about their right to be left alone. The problem with the spammers' position is that they don't have the right to make money. They have the right to try to make money, but if it involves pissing everyone off, and everyone decides to create and use filters to make email bearable again - then that's their right too.

New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of
Robotics

New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of
Robotics 08/22/2004 07:22 PM

Anti-spam laws bite spammer hard

Anti-spam laws bite spammer hard 04/01/2005 07:06 AM
Legal action has driven one of the net's biggest spammers to declare bankruptcy protection.

Lawsuit Filed Under Utah's
Challenged Anti-Spyware Act

Lawsuit Filed Under Utah's
Challenged Anti-Spyware Act 05/19/2004 07:23 PM
InternetNews.com-36 minutes ago ... Search giant Google this week made news on the spyware front, posting a statement on its Web site this week outlining its ideas for limiting the use of such ...

AOL spammer lawsuit thrown out

AOL spammer lawsuit thrown out 01/06/2004 02:26 PM
Personal Computer World Jan 6 2004 1:47PM ET

Microsoft, N.Y. AG team on lawsuit
against spammer

Microsoft, N.Y. AG team on lawsuit
against spammer 12/18/2003 06:10 PM
Using evidence gathered through Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service, the New York attorney general is filing suit against OptInRealBig.com LLC President Scott Richter and several other companies.

Lawsuit challenges copyright laws

Lawsuit challenges copyright laws 12/27/2004 05:42 PM
CNN Dec 27 2004 9:32PM GMT

Judge Tosses AOL Spammer Lawsuit Over
Jurisdiction Issue

Judge Tosses AOL Spammer Lawsuit Over
Jurisdiction Issue 12/30/2003 07:44 PM
Details are sketchy on this one, but it sounds like a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by AOL against some spammers because the judge claims not to have jurisdiction over the spammers. The spammers are in Florida, but AOL (and the court) are in Virginia. Once again, the question of jurisdiction online becomes important. Should the spammers be liable in Virginia because their emails hit AOL's machines (based in Virginia) or should it be filed in a Florida court?

Microsoft settles Arizona lawsuit over
alleged breach of antitrust laws

Microsoft settles Arizona lawsuit over
alleged breach of antitrust laws 06/28/2004 08:08 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jun 28 2004 11:47PM GMT

CPSC, Segway LLC Announce Voluntary
Recall to Upgrade Software on Segway™
Human Transporters

CPSC, Segway LLC Announce Voluntary
Recall to Upgrade Software on Segway™
Human Transporters 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
CPSC, Segway LLC Announce Voluntary Recall to Upgrade Software on Segway™ Human Transporters (gizmodo.net) -- "Under certain operating conditions, particularly...

"NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Larry Lessig has
a piece in Wired that makes some
observations on nanotechnology and
politics: Suddenly, nanotech replaced
Y2K as the nightmare du jour. And this
in turn inspired some scientists, hoping
for funding, to push a very..."

"NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Larry Lessig has
a piece in Wired that makes some
observations on nanotechnology and
politics: Suddenly, nanotech replaced
Y2K as the nightmare du jour. And this
in turn inspired some scientists, hoping
for funding, to push a very..." 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

StarCraft X 1.11

StarCraft X 1.11 04/29/2004 11:12 PM
Lead a small group of human exiles doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy.

Subsumption Primer

Subsumption Primer 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Chris Schur has posted an updated version of his Primer on Subsumption Architecture. The document provides an easy to understand introduction to Brooke's theory. Diagrams of subsumptive and conventional architecure are given for comparison and the document also explains the use of Finite State Machines in subsumption architecture.

StarCraft: Brood War X 1.11

StarCraft: Brood War X 1.11 04/29/2004 11:12 PM
Continue the award-winning saga of galactic warfare as the Zerg, Protoss and Terrans struggle for their survival.

Evolutionary Subsumption
Neurocontrollers

Evolutionary Subsumption
Neurocontrollers 05/07/2004 07:19 PM
A new research paper (PDF format) written by COGS researcher Julian Togelius combines the ideas of evolutionary computing, neural networks, and subsumption architecture. A simulated robot using software based on Julian's ideas was able learn a series of behaviours through a multi-layer evolutionary process with multiple fitness functions. The paper suggests that a layered evolution approach may solve the chief problem of evolutionary robotics: scaling the software to the point that it can solve complicated, real-world problems. Julian explains layered evolution and differentiates it from incremental evolution and modularised evolution.

Spammer Bankrupted by Anti-Spammer Suits

Spammer Bankrupted by Anti-Spammer Suits 03/29/2005 05:27 PM

Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million

Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million 03/17/2005 02:53 AM
In a story of simple solutions thrown by the wayside, a company is suing an Oklahoma City man for defamation and other damages after he took his personal quest to stop their spamming to the web.

Search Marketing Techniques, Deceptive
Advertising Laws & Other Laws

Search Marketing Techniques, Deceptive
Advertising Laws & Other Laws 03/22/2005 04:39 PM

Ethical Wi-Fi Borrowing

Ethical Wi-Fi Borrowing 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
The Ethicist endorses borrowing a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal: In a fairly one-sided debate of the issues, the mention of Time-Warner's Roadrunner threat letters to purposeful Wi-Fi sharers aside, The New York Times's columnist Randy Cohen says that unless you inconvenience the unintentional service provider you're borrowing from, you're not going to ethical heck. His summary of Time-Warner's issue is specious, though. The company argues, in effect, that while you may have a glass of water at a neighbor's, you may not run a pipe from his place to yours. Actually, because the service is unmetered, it's more like saying, we're providing you unlimited water for personal use, and guests are okay, but you can't run a pipe to a neighbor's house. (Cohen quotes Mike Godwin, the formulator of Godwin's Law, which is infallibly accurate.) (I like the sound of "unintentional provider." I've been trying to find a term to cover the difference between community wireless nodes run by individuals who aren't necessarily bound to keep them running and community wireless nodes and other free nodes that are designed and "advertised" as available all the time. I was thinking purposely persistent provider, but perhaps the distinction is "unintentional provider" and "intentional provider.") [Nods to Cory D. for prompting this digression.]...

Is Hacking Ethical

Is Hacking Ethical 05/13/2004 09:40 AM

"Ethical Philosophy Selector"

"Ethical Philosophy Selector" 07/16/2004 03:18 PM

Ethical hacking set for MP debate

Ethical hacking set for MP debate 04/27/2004 06:10 AM
Silicon.com Apr 27 2004 9:07AM GMT

Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron

Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron 06/27/2004 01:13 PM
Wired News Jun 27 2004 5:22PM GMT

Ethical Webl0gging Part One

Ethical Webl0gging Part One 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Update: Wednesday March 5 - The text of this post has been slightly edited and adjusted in an attempt to tighten up and clarify my argument. I believe that my position is essentially the same, but you are advised that some of the comments that follow this post were responses to an earlier version.

With Blogger's acquisition by Google, the weblog space has changed more fundamentally than I think any of us had previously realised. The main impact of that acquisition is not faster servers or a better weblog infrastructure, it's that marketing and public relations firms - always more brand-conscious than perhaps they should be - have noticed Google turn our way, and (carefully following the integrity-based brand's line-of-sight) have finally noticed us... "What is this new grassroots phenomena?" they seem to be asking - as if the press hadn't written about almost nothing else on the web for the last three years, "... and how can we get it promoting Dr Pepper?"

First things first - why should they care? They should care because there are hundreds of thousands of weblogs out there - and they're all connected to each another, spreading information and ideas around the web at tremendous speeds. The bums-on-seats factor is huge - get something on Metafilter and you can guarantee thousands of views. Get it on b3ta, tens of thousands. Get it on Slashdot, hundreds of thousands. And that's not including the impact of the thousands of personal sites. Nor does it include the people who read those sites, pick up links and e-mail them to their friends, to their bosses, girlfriends and mums. Weblogs are becoming the natural meme ecology - almost as good at spreading ideas as e-mail but with one particular advantage for marketeers - their sole raison d'etre is to point people at other web pages. They are almost inherently a tool for rating and promotion. They are public opinion made manifest. In fact the only mystery is that marketers haven't been trying to exploit them before...

Doc Searls has argued that this incursion by marketeers will be routed around - like so much censorship or damage - by the distributed nature of weblogging. I'm less convinced, and the reason I'm not convinced is that to a lesser - and mostly unacknowledged - extent, weblogs have already had their integrity 'corrupted' - we're already advertising things for companies in return for money. The most common and widespread form of integrity-reducing advertising we are undertaking are Amazon referrals. I'm not taking a high-ground here - I often place them on my site when I've bought something that I thought was particularly good, or wanted to reward an artist I like. We don't tend to think of them as interfering with our credibility or compromising our integrity - but we make more money if we write in a way that puts more Amazon links into our sites, and we make money if those links are recommendations....

The 'Project Blogger' approach is a simple and effective one - you make webloggers (members of the public) feel important and special as 'in the know' opinion formers. You ask for nothing in return because that could be perceived as pressure. Inevitably this will be something that people sign up to believing that there's no price to pay. Except they've been given expensive and cool things by a marketing organisation - so there's always the pressure of a threatened withdrawal. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and you pay with the soul of your site - the place you've carved out as a place of personal expression becomes yet another platform to sell rich teenagers Nike shoes...

There's a really good article about weblogs as marketing devices over at chronotope at the moment which I think drags a lot of the issues into the light of day. There does seem to be a perceptual difference between the analysis of weblogs from outside and attempts to manipulate them or direct them through advertising or promotional approaches. The people behind this campaigning strategy honestly cannot seem to see how their work might deform or debase the integrity of individual sites, and I suppose we couldn't expect them too. But this does seem to me to be the crux of the issue - that as soon as advertising enters the space of personal publishing, integrity becomes questionable - the particular authenticity of weblogs and diarist content becomes under threat.

So now that the marketeers and public relations people have turned towards us - what are we to do about it? The idea that weblogging would need any kind of united sense of ethics hasn't previously been very palatable to people, but I think that's changing - Nick Denton has made some very sensible comments on Blogger Freebies that try to clarify what an individual's responsibilities might be considered to be and he in turn links to Mitch Ratcliffe's Ethics and Blogging and Rebecca Blood's piece on Weblog ethics. In turn Rebecca mentions Dave Winer's position from quite a while ago. There's a resurgence of interest in the rights and responsibilities of the 'good' weblogger, which I think should now probably be opened up for debate and discussed at greater length.

So what do you think? What are the particular ethics of writing a weblog? Is it possible to preserve your integrity while taking advertising?

'UK must revive ethical policy'

'UK must revive ethical policy' 04/21/2004 07:57 PM
Britain needs a campaign to revive its "ethical" foreign policy after the blow to its credibility caused by the Iraq war, says a think tank.

The Pros & Cons of Ethical Hacking

The Pros & Cons of Ethical Hacking 01/23/2004 06:31 PM
Internet.com Jan 23 2004 10:16PM GMT

The first ethical questions of robotics
in society are upon us.

The first ethical questions of robotics
in society are upon us. 06/22/2004 09:04 AM
As machines and computers grow more intelligent, as a society we must consider their place within our societal code of ethics. For awhile now, these questions have been regarded by many to be so far away that to seriously worry about them now is a waste of breath and time. I intend to show that not only are serious issues of ethics regarding robots and artificial intelligence coming very soon to us, in some aspects, they already are here.

UK Thinking About Protecting Ethical
Hackers

UK Thinking About Protecting Ethical
Hackers 04/26/2004 02:38 PM
There have been plenty of problems with laws that haven't even tried to distinguish between various types of computer break-ins. If someone is just trying to point out a vulnerability, do they deserve the same type of punishment as someone who breaks in, takes data and trashes a system? Some more tech savvy politicians in the UK are even considering protecting so-called "benign" hacking in an update on their computer misuse laws. Of course, the definition of "benign" is going to be problematic. In the article, for example, one politician suggests it should be legal to hack around censorship laws by the government to let users access websites the government has blocked. That seems particularly confusing: the government would allow people to hack around a law they, themselves, had passed?

Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron (Reuters)

Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron (Reuters) 06/26/2004 04:12 PM
Reuters - Sporting long sideburns, a bushy goatee and black baseball cap, instructor Ralph Echemendia has a class of 15 buttoned-down corporate, academic and military leaders spellbound. The lesson: hacking.

Terrans vs Cosmists = Gigadeath

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