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(HT to CircleID) bytelevel has produced a map of the world based on all of the Country Code - Top Level Domain Names (cc-TLDs).
http://bytelevel.com/map/
It even includes the oddballs such as Bouvet Island (.bv)!

The International Herald Tribune has a great article on the dispute before the WTO on gambling between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States.
Online gambling case pits Antigua against U.S. and challenges WTO, By Gary Rivlin
It lays out the angles that you wouldn’t see in just reading the case documents. My favorite quote in […]

Via email from the WTO:
WTO ISSUES COMPLIANCE PANEL REPORT ON GAMBLING DISPUTE
The WTO, on 30 March 2007, issued the report of the compliance panel in
the case brought by Antigua and Barbuda regarding “United States -
Measures affecting the cross-border supply of gambling and betting
services” (DS285).
Download:
Panel report in Word format:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/285rw-a_e.doc
Panel report in pdf format:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/285rw-a_e.pdf
Annex A in Word […]

As mentioned in my earlier post, EFF-Austin is meeting on the 15th at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. Full details, for those interested, below the fold.

Via Boing Boing, the WiFi Liberator is:
…an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. [Link].
The idea is that one person pays for use, and then shares that connection with others.
This is an area […]

Two Scottish firms, Patent and Trade Mark powerhouse Marks & Clerk and Pinsent Masons — who are big on IT issues and publish the excellent OUT-LAW — are expanding their operations in China. [The Herald].
For those of you in and around Austin, EFF-Austin’s next general meeting will be on 15 February at Cafe Caffeine, 909 […]

Been busy for the past few days working on materials for the Free Trade Project. Check out the latest posts at the blog. Here are some of the links and news that I’ve been reading for the week.
YouTube is talking to Japanese content owners over copyright licensing. Many Japanese publishers had complained this fall about […]