Verizon has requested a stay in Judge John D. Bates’ (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) ruling in favor of RIAA, compelling Verizon to release personal customer data on a subscriber who downloaded copyrighted music. See my previous post on this issue here.
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Daily Archives: February 13, 2003
Problems with IRS E-Filing
This Business Week article details the choices available for e-filing, as well as associated costs and challenges involved in this process. See also these related articles: Free tax E-filing may not be so easy and IRS regroups on business filing. Continue Reading
Microsoft Appeals Ruling to Include Java
Microsoft appealed to the 4th Circuit to reverse a lower court decision forcing the company to include Java programming language in new releases of Windows XP. See my previous posts on this issue here, here and here. Continue Reading
Supreme Court Library Filtering Case
The Center for Democracy and Technolgy (CDT) filed an amicus brief (PDF) in the Supreme Court on February 10 in the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) case, supporting the lower court decision (210 F. Supp 2d 401) overturning the requirement that federally funded libraries must filter Internet access to patrons. See also the library of… Continue Reading
Senate Resolution on CRS Reports
According to Mary Alice Baish, Associate Washington Affairs Representative, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), there are more than 30 organizations who support providing public access to all CRS reports on the Internet. Please see Senate Resolution 54, submitted by Senators Leahy, Lieberman, and Harkin, “…to make Congressional Research Service, CRS, reports, and other Senate… Continue Reading
