More poorly-written laws which move towards censorship. The saddest part is that such laws don't have a hope of actually stopping the flood of semi-pornographic e-mails. Time for some gratuitious Franklin quotage: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety."

I still haven't figured out why Australia has become the most restrictive copyright-enforcing regime in the world, but they sure have.

1K books, 8K dollars.

Google Video finally launches.

At least they don't have to clear copyrights on all that.

Indie online music store profile.

--Ari