[ANSOL-geral][NOTÍCIAS] Law Documents in a Nutshell

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Law Documents in a Nutshell
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    [0]Ramakrishnan M writes "LawMeme has a two part article (more to come)
    on reading and interpreting Legalese for geeks, titled "Law School in a
    nutshell". Here is the [1]Part 1 and [2]part 2"
Links
    0. http://www.hackGNU.org/
    1.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364&
mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
    2.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=382


InvisibleNet Presents IIP
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    An anonymous submitter writes: "A new and ever growing project has
    launched into the alternative network realm, changing the pace by
    focusing directly on speech, rather than file sharing. The [0]Invisible
    Irc Project, a peer distributed secure and anonymous internet relay
    chat network has popped up at some of the recent conventions this past
    year. The creator, and project leader, known as 0x90, has been seen at
    [1]CodeCon 2002 introducing it to the public, at that time in more of a
    primitive state, and today, almost a year later, the software has
    noticeably been more usable by the masses. 0x90 just gave a talk at
    [2]ToorCon 2K2 on designing a robust & secure Peer-2-Peer framework,
    and their [3]InvisibleNet site just released new [4]software along with
    a two part [5]interview that was taken in July. A good read that
    details the depths of their project, including the state it is in now,
    and the future vision of a privately distributed steganographical
    crypto-net. I have tried out the software and it is very easy to set
    up, and it supports the freenixes, OS X, and Win32 machines. You can
    use any irc client with it seemlessly, and the cryptography is handled
    transparently within your "IIP" node. It's GPL so peer review is
    welcome, as it also states this on their site. It appears to have a
    nice community of users with a range of discussions. So if you have a
    bit of time on your hands to engage in some chatting online, give this
    a try. It's alternative, creative, and possibly a standard setting step
    to securing IRC as we know it."
Links
    0. http://www.invisiblenet.net/iip
    1. http://www.codecon.org/2002
    2. http://www.toorcon.org/
    3. http://www.invisiblenet.net/
    4. http://www.invisiblenet.net/iip/downloadMain.php
    5. http://www.invisiblenet.net/iip/mediaMain.php


Boucher Introduces New Bill
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    brandido writes "The [0]Register is [1] reporting that Rep. Rick
    Boucher unveiled his attempt at returning some rights to consumers.
    According to the Register: "As we reported yesterday, some of the
    biggest names in IT names were on hand to support a legislation from
    Rep. Rick Boucher unveiled this morning. Boucher vowed to strike out
    the repressive portions of the DMCA, and 'directs the Federal Trade
    Commission to undertake a rulemaking to assure adequate notice to the
    public of any lack of functionality which may attend the purchase of
    copy protected CDs.'" Details of the bill can be found in [2] PDF
    format , as can [3] a summary and [4] Boucher's Statement (taken from
    The Reg story)." Oddly, this bill focuses on notification that you're
    buying copy-restricted music disks instead of CDs (which is useful, but
    hardly major), and only contains a few vague amendments to the DMCA
    itself. Neither of these is worth paying much attention to: Congress is
    about to wrap up and go home for the year, and will start afresh in
    January with a clean slate. Perhaps in January some bright
    Congressperson will introduce a bill which actually takes strong steps
    toward repealing the DMCA.
Links
    0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
    1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27426.html
    2. http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/BOUCHE_025.pdf
    3. http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dmcrasec.htm
    4. http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dccrastatement.htm