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PDFlibrary patrons does not affect our legal analysis
or disposition of the case.
The OCLC database, a cooperative cataloging service
established to facilitate interlibrary loan requests, includes 40 million catalog records from approximately 48,000 libraries of all types worldwide. Slightly more than 400 of the libraries in the OCLC database are listed as carrying Playboy in their collections, while only eight subscribe to Hustler.
Fort Vancouver Regional Library, for example, combines
the methods of strategically placing terminals in low traffic areas and using privacy screens. A section headed “Confidentiality and Privacy” on the library’s home page states: “in order to protect the privacy of the user and the interests of other library patrons, the library will attempt to minimize unintentional viewing of the Internet. This will be done by use of privacy screens, and by judicious placement of the terminals and other appropriate means.”
Indeed, we granted leave for N2H2’s counsel to intervene
in order to object to testimony that would potentially reveal N2H2’s trade secrets, which he did on several occasions.
Geoffrey Nunberg (Ph.D., Linguistics, C.U.N.Y. 1977) is a
researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and a Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Until 2001, he was also a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. His research centers on automated classification systems, with a focus on classifying documents on the Web with respect to their linguistic properties. He has published his research in numerous professional journals, including peer-reviewed journals.
A “cookie” is “a small file or part of a file stored on a
World Wide Web user’s computer, created and subsequently read by a Web site server, and containing personal information (as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited).” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, available at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm.
Hunter drew three different “samples” for his test. The
first consisted of “50 randomly generated Web pages from the Webcrawler search engine.” The “second sample of 50 Web pages was drawn from searches for the terms ’yahoo, warez, hotmail, sex, and MP3,’ using the AltaVista.com search engine.” And the “final sample of 100 Web sites was drawn from the sites of organizations who filed amicus briefs in support of the ACLU’s challenges to the Community [sic] Decency Act (CDA) and Copa [the Children’s Online Protection Act], and from Internet portals, political Web sites, feminist Web sites, hate speech sites, gambling sites, religious sites, gay pride/homosexual sites, alcohol, tobacco, and drug sites, pornography sites, new sites, violent game sites, safe sex sites, and pro and anti-abortion sites listed on the popular Web directory, Yahoo.com.”
The OCLC database, a cooperative cataloging service
established to facilitate interlibrary loan requests, includes 40 million catalog records from approximately 48,000 libraries of all types worldwide. Slightly more than 400 of the libraries in the OCLC database are listed as carrying Playboy in their collections, while only eight subscribe to Hustler.
Fort Vancouver Regional Library, for example, combines
the methods of strategically placing terminals in low traffic areas and using privacy screens. A section headed “Confidentiality and Privacy” on the library’s home page states: “in order to protect the privacy of the user and the interests of other library patrons, the library will attempt to minimize unintentional viewing of the Internet. This will be done by use of privacy screens, and by judicious placement of the terminals and other appropriate means.”
Indeed, we granted leave for N2H2’s counsel to intervene
in order to object to testimony that would potentially reveal N2H2’s trade secrets, which he did on several occasions.
Geoffrey Nunberg (Ph.D., Linguistics, C.U.N.Y. 1977) is a
researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and a Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Until 2001, he was also a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. His research centers on automated classification systems, with a focus on classifying documents on the Web with respect to their linguistic properties. He has published his research in numerous professional journals, including peer-reviewed journals.
A “cookie” is “a small file or part of a file stored on a
World Wide Web user’s computer, created and subsequently read by a Web site server, and containing personal information (as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited).” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, available at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm.
Hunter drew three different “samples” for his test. The
first consisted of “50 randomly generated Web pages from the Webcrawler search engine.” The “second sample of 50 Web pages was drawn from searches for the terms ’yahoo, warez, hotmail, sex, and MP3,’ using the AltaVista.com search engine.” And the “final sample of 100 Web sites was drawn from the sites of organizations who filed amicus briefs in support of the ACLU’s challenges to the Community [sic] Decency Act (CDA) and Copa [the Children’s Online Protection Act], and from Internet portals, political Web sites, feminist Web sites, hate speech sites, gambling sites, religious sites, gay pride/homosexual sites, alcohol, tobacco, and drug sites, pornography sites, new sites, violent game sites, safe sex sites, and pro and anti-abortion sites listed on the popular Web directory, Yahoo.com.”
