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Heise News reports that the district court in Frankfurt/Main has found that there was no base in law for an earlier order from a lower court that had required the JAP anonymizing proxy to implement a "crime detection feature." This feature would lift the anonymity of those who would use the service to access a specific web site.

When the district court had suspended enforcement of that order earlier this month, police searched the anonymization service; the data collected while the (illegal) surveillance measures were in place were turned over. This search is the topic of separate court proceedings.

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Stratton Sclavos (the CEO that brought us Sitefinder) is one of the "candidates" in the Internet category.

James Grimmelmann, at LawMeme: Attention so far has been focusing on the ethics of the move (positive satanic), its effects on DNS and non-Web applications (Considered Harmful), and on possible technical responses .... On the legal side of the fence, though, we're not just talking about a can of worms. We're talking about an oil drum of Arcturan Flesh-Eating Tapeworms.

(Ross Rader reports that the first Arcturan Flesh-Eating Tapeworm has crawled out of the oil drum.)