Category Archives: Law

Lawyer: Abusing foreign children is OK

Seen in yesterday’s Boston Herald in a letter from Geoffrey Nathan, an attorney of an alleged child pornographer: “In purchasing kiddie porn, users abuse children who live in distant countries.  Who really cares about incarcerating U.S. citizens for looking at pictures on their computers, when the pictures ware taken thousands of miles away?  Are we… Read More »

Category: Law

“Google Print” is here to stay

Google has embarked on an ambitious project to scan millions of books into an online, searchable database. Many people and organizations object to the project on the grounds that it infringes on these books’ copyrights. These include the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, both of which have filed suit to stop Google… Read More »