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With the passage of the Internet Gambling Ban of 2006, Congress envisioned a complete prohibition on online poker and online gambling in general. Instead, this hastily passed law has created more confusion than it has cured. By failing to acknowledge jurisdictional problems associated with this...
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Suppose you turn on your laptop while sitting at the kitchen table at home and respond OK to a prompt about accessing a nearby wireless Internet access point owned and operated by a neighbor. What potential liability may ensue from accessing someone else's wireless access point? How about...
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The salient objection to Section 230 reform that would saddle online platforms with any form of indirect liability for user-generated content is not one of principle, but of practicality: are there effective reforms that would meaningfully reduce the incidence of unlawful or tortious online...
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As business clients make available an ever-increasing array of online content and services, the specter of liability for inappropriate online content looms large. Still, U.S. federal law protects businesses that adopt appropriate take-down regimes for copyright infringement, defamatory content,...
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The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television system operator is not regulated in its sale of cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service...
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Internet-based platform businesses outcompete traditional brick and mortar business on nearly all measures of comparison. Similarly, distributed ledger technology (DLT) businesses depend on the internet and show a lot of promise in multiple business verticals. Yet, internet-based platform...
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While a lot has been written about ISP liability in the last decade, it still proves to be a hot topic and one worth of ever more reflection and debate. If this is the case in jurisdictions where special statutes have been enacted, it is all the more so in countries lacking such rules. Hence...
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This article is a useful tool for both Asian and European readers as regards some of the state-of-the-art technologies revolving around the Internet of Things (‘IoT') and their intersection with cloud computing (the Clouds of Things, ‘CoT') in both the continents. The main legal issues will...
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In Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick, the High Court of Australia recently rejected an appeal to reformulate the common law multiple publication rule and the traditional view of the place of publication in the context of transnational Internet defamation. Instead the Court, applying orthodox conflict...
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We do everything online. We shop, travel, invest, socialize, and even hold garage sales. Even though we may not care whether a company operates online or in the physical world, however, the question has dramatic consequences for the companies themselves. Online and offline entities are governed...
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