from 'Common Dreams'

Is Cheap Broadband Un-American?
[via gammatron (phase ii)]

undermining 'consumer behavior'

Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers
[via Populicious]

Related:
PIE and the bitter taste of tracking

major programs compared

What P2P Programs Install What Spyware?
[via Disarranging@del.icio.us]

'an incredible thicket'

CNET News.com: The coming crackdown on blogging

Related:
The Value of a Link

re: broadcast flag

BBC News: Courts question anti-piracy rule

The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has "crossed the line" with an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes being copied...

aimed at bloggers

overstated: Google's AdSense spam
[via Waxy.org Links]

Malware

Malware: what it is and how to prevent it

internet patents

GROKLAW: Step Into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly -- MS's Royalty-Free Protocol Licenses
[via unalog: Person (jaf)]

Eat your meat!

Spam: 'It's a meat,' Hormel insists

unclear company policy

BBC: Blogger grounded by her airline. "A US airline attendant is fighting for her job after she was suspended over postings on her blog, or online diary..."

Attn: Windows users

CNET News.com:  Code to exploit Windows graphics flaw now public

"free to say anything"

Federal court: web privacy policies mean nothing

"we are watching"

Noted spammer gets off easy in NY settlement

Internet porn

Supreme Court keeps Net porn law on ice.  In a close vote, the justices rule that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violates Americans' free-speech rights.  [CNET News.com]