The New York Times this week barred web surfers coming in through UK-based IP addresses from reading an article about the terror investigation which is currently ongoing in Britain. “Details Emerge in British Terror Case” read the Times headline, but surfers in the UK could get no further.

Remember when we told you about Alexander Erik Smith, the man charged with theft of services for repeatedly using the free wifi offered by the Brewed Awakenings coffee shop in Orchard, Washington? Well, Alexander Erik Smith has pleaded guilty to trespass in the case.

Some of you may recall Kyle MacDonald and his quest to trade one red paper clip for a house. Well guess what. Kyle MacDonald has done it! In fact, in not quite a year, Kyle MacDonald has managed to parlay one red paperclip, through a series of trades including a part in the movie “Donna on Demand”, into a real house.

A Texas girl and her mother, who claim that the girl was misled by Pete Solis, a 19 year old on MySpace who claimed to be a high school senior, are suing MySpace for $30million.

Alex Eric Smith parked his truck outside the Brewed Awakenings coffee shop regularly for months, using Brewed Awakenings’ free wifi without buying anything. Now he has been charged with theft of services.

TorrentSpy, run by Valence Media, has accused the MPAA of hacking into their computers by hiring an ex-employee, Robert Anderson, to hack into their servers. Not uncoincidentally, TorrentSpy was on the receiving end of a lawsuit by the MPAA just a few months previous.

If you have ever received mortgage spam, you’ve probably been spammed by Ryan Pitylak. Now following lawsuits against him by Microsoft and the Texas AG, Pitylak says he’s going straight and doing anti-spam consulting.

Social networking giant MySpace.com has filed a lawsuit against once-rival TheGlobe.com for sending spam to MySpace users.

In the case of Snow v. DirecTV, a Federal court has ruled that a public website has no right against people who access the website despite the website having expressly excluded them from accessing the site.

Gary McKinnon, the hacker known as “Solo”, who infamously hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers, and who claimed that once there he found dozens of other hackers, and proof of aliens, has lost his fight against extradition to the United States for prosecution.

A recent study has shown that Internet gambling in the United States has doubled in the past year, and that many people who take part in Internet gambling have no idea that what they are doing is illegal.

Google has been sued by New York politician Jeffrey Toback, who claims that Google intentionally provides and promotes – indeed that Google’s business plan includes – child pornography.

Dueling Net Neutrality bills have been introduced in Washington DC this week, one by Democratic House representatives Markey, Eshoo, Inslee and Boucher, the other by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Democrat Senator Daniel Inouye. Oh yes, and another one by Senator Wyden.

Word on the street has it that Alan Ralsky, the so-called Spam King, has been taken into custody by the Department of Justice (DOJ), where they are attempting to put the squeeze on him to have him give up all his spammer cronies and their spamming networks.

Lawyer Jay Kuo had at least some not so insignificant others reading his LiveJournal.com blog that he wasn’t counting on – including the judge in the criminal trial he was prosecuting. Now Kuo, producer of the upcoming musical, “Insignificant Others”, is not only out of court, but out of a job.