Andy Oram on the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act.
"If the [CIAA] is passed ... litigators will probably have to claim that linking is a form of copying, a slippery slope we don't want to start down."
William Saleton on Vote.com
"Meanwhile, [Morris] predicts that "money won't work in politics anymore, because you won't be able to reach people by buying television ads," since "the Internet is taking the place of television in politics." So if you're a special interest, where can you take your money to reach the voters? To Morris, of course. He boasts that vote.com is "free" because "we get our money from advertisers." And who's going to advertise on a site where people vote on political issues? Why, special interests, naturally."
Chapter 6 : Database Nation
The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, by Simson Garfinkel.
The only thing better than an Instabroke card