Needles, Haystacks and Stuff (from Indexed)

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I almost titled this post, “Wut?”, but decided against it. It was, however, my initial reaction to this ArsTechnica story, Feeling guilt over P2P use? Piracy Payback wants to help. From the article:
Feeling a sense of remorse, contrition, guilt, shame, and self-loathing over all that unauthorized peer-to-peer downloading you’ve been doing? Salve that stinging conscience [...]

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We’ve read a few examples recently of lawyers getting in trouble for what they post online: a lawyer disciplined for posts about a judge and another charged with revealing client confidences (here are other examples from the ABA journal and the NY Times). But it’s not just lawyers getting in trouble.
In an unreported opinion out [...]

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From the MIT Labs Personas Web page:

“Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. [...]

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Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, is a Blogger. Or, more properly (as he notes), he now has his own blog, Shane Reactions. Welcome to your own place in the Blogosphere, Peter!

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I’m really glad to be joining my colleagues here at Madisonian.net, and appreciate the invitation. I hope I can contribute something to the conversation.
As a start, I thought I would make note of Judge Bybee’s Kleinfield’s dissent in two cases decided this week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (he filed the same [...]

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