Associated Press: Federal judges toss out online pornography law (also see CNET News.com, InternetNews.com, Wired News, and Eugene Volokh's summary of the decision) -- American Library Ass'n v. United States, No. 01-1303 (E.D. Pa. May 31, 2002)

EFF's Consensus at Lawyerpoint blog (via LawMeme): A long time ago, in an industry far, far away (testifying before Congress in 1982, MPAA president Jack Valenti attacked the "savagery" and "ravages" of VCRs, saying that "the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone") (also see full transcript of Valenti's testimony on Cryptome)

MSNBC (Brock Meeks editorial): Cannibals in cyberspace: Internet governing body feasts on itself (yay, more ICANN bashing!)

ZDNet Australia: Aussie spammer sues anti-spammer

Washington Post: Critics say ICANN should compete for net governance duties (groups challenging ICANN's control over Internet domain name system include ACLU, CPSR, Consumers Union, EFF, EPIC, and others)

The Onion: Factual error found on Internet

Politech: Neulevel's PostMinder tracks email without recipient approval (also see PostMinder) (isn't this what e-mail marketers and spammers have been doing for a long time?)

AP: AT&T Broadband e-mail filter may work too well (ISP-endorsed spam filter blocks e-mail from the ISP itself -- including a notification of a pending rate increase) (also see RISKS)

WeirdBytes: Info-security and privacy: a dog's view (describing cats as "pathological individualistic privacy freaks")

eWeek: Allchin: Disclosure may endanger U.S. (Microsoft exec tells a federal court that Microsoft code has so many flaws that disclosing it to competitors may threaten national security) (also see Slashdot)

CD crack: Magic marker indeed (also available via CNET) (Sony's new copy-protection scheme for what it still claims are "compact discs" -- an irritating scheme that distorts the data, preventing legitimate purchasers from played CDs they've bought and paid for on CD/DVD players, car CD players, and computers -- apparently can be defeated simply by writing on the disk's rim with a felt-tip pen. So, is the pen mightier than the RIAA, or will the RIAA seek to ban felt-tip pens next?)

Cosmiverse (via Fark): New technology creates realistic videos of false testimony (researchers at MIT can make videos of people appearing to say anything)

Reuters: Senate toughens up on spam (Commerce Committee marks up "CAN SPAM" Act, sends it to Senate floor)  (Memo to Congress: Please don't pass yet another ill-advised Internet bill. A feeble spam law like this one would legitimize spam, making the problem much worse than it is now. Even those who support antispam legislation should prefer no law at all to this inept approach.)

Politech: Ninth Circuit rules 6-5 that Nuremberg files website is unlawful (see also decision [PDF])

Wired News: Another run to a deep-link suit

Politech: Criminal defendant insists his own name is copyrighted

Politechbot: Exciting new use of DMCA! Banning font-twiddling software! (commercial font vendors claim that a distributor of free fonts violated copyright law by posting a program that enabled him to easily change one character in his own font files ... but never fear, ChillingEffects is watching)