Astrology company sues over timezone data, shuts down major Internet timezone database
http://j.mp/rtEf9h (Gmane) "A civil suit was filed on September 30 in federal court in Boston ... The ftp server at elsie.nci.nih.gov has been shut down." http://j.mp/nVvJux (Scribd) Plaintiff, Astrolabe, Inc. [hereinafter "Astrolabe"], is a for-profit Massachusetts corporation with a principal place of business at 350 Underpass Road, P.O. Box 1750, Brewster, Barnstable County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 02631, and is engaged in the business of publication, marketingand sale, including computer software publications and/or programspertaining to the field of astrology. - - - Note that's "astrology" -- not "astronomy." "Hey man, what's your sign?" --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
