(entry last updated: 2002-12-17 16:46:02)

• **The Register reports the results of an analysis (screed?) of the RIAA’s own statistics that offers up a different explanation for the decline in CD sales. While the causality remains a little shaky, the statistics do paint an interesting picture.

• **Slashdot reports that the jury has found ElcomSoft not guilty. Read more online commentary at the bottom of the ZDNet report.

• Wired’s coverage of the Johansen trial includes a few more details.

• Slashdot points to a very interesting article on Acacia Technologies’ efforts to collect royalties on patents they have which they claim cover Internet transmission of video and audio. Their targets - the online porn industry. Even more interesting - they’re fighting back, and many outside that industry have a clear stake.

• The power of litigation: the settlement site for the CD-price collusion trial. Of course, there are a few strings attached, including the biggest one - if too many people submit claims, all the money goes to charity instead.

• The RIAA goes after a different link in what I would claim is the real piracy chain. The Wired News story

• And I missed this very interesting article from the NYTimes describing Tommy Mottola’s efforts to reshape the Sony Music business model.

• The NYTimes reports that the Pentagon is looking to reclaim/maintain its claim for the spectrum that otherwise might be freed up for WiFi. The reason? Even though it hasn’t happened yet, WiFi “might” interfere with some kinds of radar.

• The NYTimes reports on a venture to create some on-line academic journals, to upset the existing modalities for dissemination of academic findings. Slashdot discussion, with a ton of related links.

• LawMeme publishes a Yale student’s term paper on Eldred.