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Apr. 6--TIME TO BRUSH UP ON THE LAW: It's bad enough that I don't have a computer science degree; now I'm starting to wish I'd gone to law school. Some of the most interesting computing developments of recent months have more to do with torts than with tech. It's not just antitrust law either; many of the legal disputes involve questions of free-speech rights and the limits of civil disobedience.

There's the Cyber Patrol case, for instance. Microsystems Software of Framingham makes Cyber Patrol, a program that blocks out Net sites that some people might find offensive. Well, there are others who find the very existence of Cyber Patrol offensive -- "censorware," ...

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