These are my links for 25th January 2008 through 1st February 2008:

• SSRN-Peeping into a Hacker’s Mind: Can Criminological Theories Explain Hacking? by Raghav Sharma – “The theoretical analysis demonstrates how the rewards in form of fame or money through hacking greatly outweigh the deterrence produced by law.” — I’m wondering if the author makes the hacker/cracker distinction. It doesn’t appear so in the abstract.
• Format shifting review – Australia is reviewing format shifting as well as the UK…
• UK and Scottish Law Commissions Propose Repeal of Hundreds of Old Statutes – Time trim the dead wood. Via SLAW.
• Teenager held over theft of 36 mil. yen in virtual cash : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) – “A computer whiz kid has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the server of an online game company and defrauding it out of about 36 million yen worth of virtual money, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday.” Virtual cash, virtual crime,
• Out of 600,000 bits of space debris, we’re about to be hit by one the size of a bus – Scotsman.com News – “UK bookmakers last night placed the odds of being struck by this US spy satellite at at least 20 billion to one.” If anything odd ever happens, you can be sure that the UK bookies will calculate the odds on it.
• Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending | LLRX.com –

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