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		<title> Is Call Forwarding an "Information Service" and Why It Matters for FTC Jurisdiction (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to brush the dust off your Computer II notebooks. Are voicemail, electronic fax, and call forwarding enhanced services or telecom services? Today's case: FTC v. American eVoice, Ltd... The FTC brought an action against Defendants claiming that they were engaged in cramming, adding unwanted voicemail, electronic fax, and call forwarding services to consumers bills to the tune of $70 million. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170721_call_forwarding_information_service_matters_for_ftc_jurisdiction">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> How a Plaintiff Was Undeceived and Lost at Spam Litigation - What Nobody Told You About! (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2003, there was a race to pass spam legislation. California was on the verge of passing legislation that marketers disdained. Thus marketers pressed for federal spam legislation which would preempt state spam legislation. The Can Spam Act of 2003 did just that... mostly. "Mostly" is where litigation lives. According to the Can Spam Act preemption-exception... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170109_how_a_plaintiff_was_undeceived_and_lost_at_spam_litigation">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> You Cannot Tell Your Customers to 'Shut Up' Anymore - Consumer Review Fairness Act Signed Into Law (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad idea: Set up a business and provide poor goods or services; receive bad reviews online for your poor goods or services. Worse idea: Instead of treating your customers' feedback as free expert advice and listening to their suggestions on how to improve your business, sue your customers -- experience the Streisand Effect -- resulting in increased media coverage highlighting your lousy goods, service, and treatment of customers. Ensure that negatives reviews of your business get the widest exposure possible. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20161220_consumer_review_fairness_act_signed_into_law">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Sharing Economy and Sec. 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20161115_sharing_economy_and_sec_230c_of_the_communications_decency_act</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The sharing economy is a challenge for local communities. On the good, it creates economic opportunity and reduces the price. On the bad, it circumvents public safety and welfare protection. Such is the clash between Airbnb and local jurisdictions. San Francisco implemented a local ordinance that permits short-term rentals on the condition that the rental property is registered. In order to register the property, the resident must provide proof of liability insurance... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20161115_sharing_economy_and_sec_230c_of_the_communications_decency_act">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> When CDA Immunity is Not CDA Immunity (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20161108_when_cda_immunity_is_not_cda_immunity</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a question: If 47 USC 230(c) (the Good Samaritan provision of the Communications Decency Act) says that online services are not liable for third party content, then can you even sue the online service? Shouldn't the online service be immune from lawsuit? Because, after all, what would be the point of being sued for something for which you cannot be liable? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20161108_when_cda_immunity_is_not_cda_immunity">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Is 47 USC 230(c) an Immunity or an Affirmative Defense (Does it Matter?) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131021_is_47_usc_230c_an_immunity_or_an_affirmative_defense</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Procedure matters. It matters whether a defendant can dispose of a litigation right out of the gate, or whether the defendant must suffer the slings and arrows of discovery, motions, and trial before presenting a successful defense. Procedurally, once a litigation has been initiated, defendant has a chance to say, "hey, wait a minute, there isn't actually a cause of action here." It's like someone suing me for being tall. Well, yeah, but there is no recognized cause of action against being tall. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131021_is_47_usc_230c_an_immunity_or_an_affirmative_defense">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Boundary Between Sec. 230 Immunity and Liability: Jones v. Dirty World Entertainment Recordings (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131011_boundary_between_sec_230_immunity_and_liability</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Out in the wilderness of cyberspace is a boundary, marking the limits of Sec. 230 immunity. On the one side roams interactive services hosting third party content immune from liability for that third party content. On the other sides is the frontier, where interactive content hosts and creators meet, merge, and become one. Here host and author blend, collaborating to give rise to new creations. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131011_boundary_between_sec_230_immunity_and_liability">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> In Which We Consider the Meaning of 'Authorized': GIVAUDAN FRAGRANCES CORPORATION v. Krivda (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131007_in_which_we_consider_the_meaning_of_authorized_givaudan_krivda</link>
		<description><![CDATA[What does authorized access mean? If an employee with authorized access to a computer system goes into that system, downloads company secrets, and hands that information over to the company's competitor, did that alleged misappropriation of company information constitute unauthorized access? This is no small question. If the access is unauthorized, the employee potentially violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) (the CFAA contains both criminal and civil causes of action). But courts get uncomfortable here. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131007_in_which_we_consider_the_meaning_of_authorized_givaudan_krivda">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> NJ Content Liability Law Ruled Inconsistent with Sec. 230 (just like in Washington and Tennesse) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131001_nj_content_liability_law_ruled_inconsistent_with_sec_230</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in a time before most members of Congress or prosecutors knew that there was an Internet, there was Prodigy. Prodigy, as part of its service, ran family-friendly chat rooms that it moderated in an effort to keep kids protected from unfortunate content. In a different Prodigy chat room, some unknown third party said something apparently bad about an investment firm Stratton-Oakmont. Stratton-Oakmont didn't like that very much, and sued. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131001_nj_content_liability_law_ruled_inconsistent_with_sec_230">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> When an IP Address Does Not Equal Individual Culpability - Breaking Glass Pictures v Does, DAZ 2013 (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130807_when_an_ip_address_does_not_equal_individual_culpability</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Something bad happens online. I can tie that something-bad back to an IP address. Do I know who did the bad thing? According to the Federal District Court in Arizona, I don't. An IP address may identify the owner of an Internet access account; it does not identify who was online at that particular time and who may be responsible for the actions in question. In Breaking Glass Pictures v Does, DAZ 2013, Plaintiff brought a claim for copyright infringement, wants early discovery, but the court is refusing. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130807_when_an_ip_address_does_not_equal_individual_culpability">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Dial "L" for Liability - Sec. 230 Protects Online Service for Errant Phone Number (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130125_sec_230_protects_online_service_for_errant_phone_number</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Communications Decency Act has been described as the greatest Internet law. The first major Internet law designed to censor the Internet actually enabled the interactive Internet. While the censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act went down in unanimous supreme court flames, a separate provision remains standing. The Good Samaritan provision of the CDA (47 U.S.C. § 230) declared that networks and online services are not publishers and therefore are not liable for the content of third parties. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130125_sec_230_protects_online_service_for_errant_phone_number">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> No Virginia, You Have No Duty to Secure Your WiFi Access Point (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120527_no_virginia_you_have_no_duty_to_secure_your_wifi_access_point</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again a report flies across the network about the police breaking down someone's door and attempting to arrest the home owner for bad things online - assuming that whatever happened from that person's Internet connection is their fault. Now there are lots of problems with this - lots of problems. But one of the big ones is that anyone can access an open access point... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120527_no_virginia_you_have_no_duty_to_secure_your_wifi_access_point">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> NTIA Request for Comments on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20110301_ntia_request_for_comments_on_the_internet_assigned_numbers_iana</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On Feb. 25, 2011, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released the following request for comments concerning the USG's contract for the IANA function. As indicated, the USG's contract for the IANA function with ICANN expires later this year. Interested parties can file comments with NTIA by March 31, 2011. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110301_ntia_request_for_comments_on_the_internet_assigned_numbers_iana">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Wayward AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) has lost its way. The ACPA was passed in an era of domain name land grabs, where nefarious individuals would register and warehouse oodles of valuable domain names, and then extract ransom from bewildered-trademark owners. These nefarious individuals are known as "cybersquatters", and, according to the ACPA, they are bad. The Ninth Circuit, in an early reading of the ACPA, stated... <a href="https://circleid.com/poststhe_wayward_anticybersquatting_consumer_protection_act">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> US Government Releases Two IPv6 Papers (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20110105_us_government_releases_two_ipv6_papers</link>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last week of December, two US Government agencies released papers on IPv6. NIST released Special Publication 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. This comprehensive 188 page paper provides guidelines for federal agencies (and anyone else who might want to take advantage of it) to securely deploy IPv6. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110105_us_government_releases_two_ipv6_papers">More...</a>]]></description>
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