• Justice Department Watchdog to Probe its Role in Warrantless Surveillance
  
  "After conducting initial inquiries into the program, we
  have decided to open a program review that will examine the
  department's controls and use of information related to the
  program."
  
• Browser Caches Aren't Possession, Says Ninth Circuit
  If you don't know an image is there, you can't possess it.
  
• Second Life, Copybot, and the Takedown Gun
  Ed Felten proposes a unique solution to copying problems in
  the virtual world: a gun that shoots law, not bullets.
  
• Europe's Privacy Czars Rule Against SWIFT
  The Belgian financial clearinghouse should not have
  responded to US requests to hand over financial data.
  
• Will Executive Hubris Lead to Problems for DoJ in Court?
  VP Cheney makes remarkably broad arguments to Federalist
  Society about wartime powers.
  
• Copyright Levies Changing Across World
  Europe is rethinking the idea of blanket levies on media.
  
• Newsweek on the Anti-DRM Movement
  "In six years of tracking piracy, we've never seen a
  statistical difference in piracy of a popular song that was
  released without DRM and a popular song that was released
  with DRM," says Eric Garland, CEO of the market research
  firm BigChampagne.