MySpace has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the once (and future?) King of Spam, Sanford Wallace. MySpace says that Wallace “implemented a phishing scheme to falsely gain access to MySpace user profiles.

RegisterFly has lost their accreditation to act as a domain registrar. What this means is that if you have registered domains through RegistrFly, you need to find a new domain registrar and transfer your domains to them. And ASAP, as RegisterFly has been ordered to cease registrar operations by March 31st!

Melanie McGuire is currently on trial for the murder of her husband, William McGuire. And while many people now know that your Google and other search engine searches can be discovered, apparently back in 2004, Melanie McGuire did not. For among the searches that the prosecution has found on her computers – searches which she conducted on the days leading up to the murder – were searches for “instant poisons”, “undetectable poisons”, and “fatal digoxin doses.” And while those alone don’t necessarily prove intent, another search, “how to commit murder” is pretty unambiguous.

In what is believed to be a first of its kind lawsuit, a court has held that a person who buys something through eBay from an out-of-state seller cannot sue the seller in the buyer’s home state.

Are you one of the countless people whose Windows PC has been affected by Winfixer, ErrorSafe, WinAntiSpyware, WinAntiVirus, SystemDoctor, or DriveCleaner? A class-action lawsuit has just been filed by attorney Joseph M. Bochner against the makers of Winfixer (which is the same as ErrorSafe, WinAntiSpyware, WinAntiVirus, SystemDoctor and DriveCleaner), and you may want to get on board!

Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet?

The RIAA has sent 400 letters to 13 colleges and universities demanding that they put the squeeze on as many as 400 students for downloading music for free. The “pre-lawsuit” college letters from the RIAA tell the students that they may settle with the RIAA “at a discounted rate” or face a lawsuit.

Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller has filed a lawsuit to learn the identity of someone who said mean things about him on the wildly popular Internet collaborative resource site Wikipedia. The entry, which claimed Zoeller abused both alcohol and drugs, and his wife, was removed from Wikipedia, so why is Zoeller still suing?

Brian Tanner was parked outside his local public library in Palmer, Alaska, using their free wifi, when police confiscated his laptop. It’s true that he was using it to check in on his Internet-based game, Conquer Club (similar to Risk) – but it’s also true that Brian Tanner, who is 21, is a moderator for the Conquer Club portal, and so it’s not a case of some teenager with an Internet game addiction.

Police are going to start checking the cell phone records of drivers who are involved in accidents. It’s already happening in the U.K., and is being discussed in the U.S. in the context of both hearings on the proposed “Hang Up and Drive” Federal law, and by advocacy groups who advocate that cell phone records should be checked after a crash to see whether cell phone use may have contributed to the crash, just as we now check for alcohol.

A New York man who was fired from IBM for visiting sex-related sites on the Internet while at work has sued IBM, claiming that he has a sex addiction, and that his addiction entitles him to protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). James Pacenza, of Montgomery, New York, in a $5 million lawsuit against IBM, alleges that IBM improperly fired him, claiming that the firing was improper because his actions were the result of a sex addiction triggered, he says, by post-traumatic stress syndrome. 58-year old James Pacenza is a Vietnam war veteran, who says that seeing his fellow soldiers killed in action lead to a stress which in turn lead to his sex addiction.

The lawsuit against MySpace and MySpace user Pete Solis by a 14 year old girl has been dismissed by a Federal judge. The lawsuit, brought by the girl’s family, and followed by copycat lawsuits against MySpace by three other families, alleged that Pete Solis lied about his age in order to gain the girl’s confidence, and that Pete Solis than sexually assaulted the girl. Of course, the lawsuit failed to mention that the girl also lied about her age, or her profile would not have been publicly visible.

A new law, called the the “Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act”, or SAFE Act, proposed by Senator McCain and Senator Schumer, would require any ISP to report and forward to a central agency any image which came through or was hosted on their system which meets the Federal definition of child pornography. This includes drawings and cartoons of children, if they could be considered inappropriate, even if the children don’t actually exist in real life, and ISPs that fail to report such images would themselves be subject to stiff penalties.

The much-rumoured and long hoped-for Beatles iPod, in the form of a Yellow Submarine iPod – a yellow iPod with the entire Beatles catalog loaded on it – came one step closer to reality with Apple Records (properly known as Apple Corps LTD) and Apple Computer burying the hatchet and bringing to a close their long-standing feud over the Apple trademark.

The British government is considering making registered sex offenders register their email addresses and chat names – including names that they use in chatrooms along with their other details. Good idea. Let’s have them register what sort of clothing they wear, while we’re at it.