Author: Rick Klau

Just as a new upstart named Teoma shows up to try and challenge Google, Google reveals how things really work. (So I’m a little late on the April Fool’s stuff, but I was a bit preoccupied.) You gotta love a company willing to have some fun.

Jenny (ShiftedLibrarian.com) asked: Hey, Bruce and Ernie – [what] if this defense of the DMCA is allowed to fly…? And Ernie the Attorney responds with a great post about the issues confronted by both Washington and Hollywood on the DMCA. She is referring to the Assistant US attorney’s argument that, “in creating the DMCA, Congress did…

Announcing Robert Parker Klau, born March 31, 2002 at 2:14pm. Mom, Dad and big brother Ricky are all doing well. More later.

In early January, I wrote about the PowerPoint presentation that was spreading like wildfire around the Net (the comment is at the bottom; there’s also a USA Today story about it here). It was about two guys who tried to claim their “guaranteed room” at the Doubletree Club in Houston. Well, looks like they’re cashing…

The only possible reason he could be showing up in this C|Net interview is to try to rehabilitate his image, possibly to introduce yet another brilliant (ahem) scam on Internet users. Don’t know who Canter is? He’s half of the duo who introduced spam to Usenet back in 1994. One of his infamous posts is…

Talk about a lack of patience. Back in February, Evan Williams (co-founder of Pyra, and co-creator of Blogger.com) linked to my site. Within a few hours, Google was indexing my site daily. What a rush! But then March 7 rolled around, and I skipped a day of posting. By Saturday, Google had not only stopped…

This is the third time in a row that the “souvenir” I bring back from London is a sinus infection. Needless to say, I’m moving a bit slow. Hopefully the horse pills the doctor has me taking will get me back to normal by tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll be taking it easy.

Found two more great law/technology blogs (by way of Jenny at The Shifted Librarian): Larry Staton’s blog at http://www.statonlaw.net/weblog/ and Will Cox’s at http://users.bestweb.net/~cwcjr/radio/. Both are worth visiting. Larry has a good response to Michael Eisner’s OpEd in today’s Financial Times. Here’s my $.02: the Constitution to which Eisner refers is not about eliminating the…

Two former employees of Varian Medical Systems who have posted more than 14,000 messages about the company on 100+ message boards were fined $775,000 for damages to Varian back in November. In addition, the court imposed a permanent injunction on the two, barring specific libelous postings about Varian employees and their personal lives. Attorneys for Varian…

I wrote a column for this month’s ABA Law Practice Management Magazine about spyware and how to fight it. Turns out the fight between spyware and counter-spyware applications is getting uglier; this article at MSNBC details how some spyware apps are deliberately breaking the counter-spyware appliations. You can visit Trapware’s home page for more information…