It's About Time to Draw the Boundary of the Internet Law

Pushing at the boundary has been a key driving force in Internet development, creating greyness and fuzziness of the boundaries of privacy and identity etc. Whether Twitter decides to take the current case further or not, the mere discussion of the case itself has highlighted the difficulties that we (particularly law makers) are faced with.

Clipped from - PC World

the hacker's legal problems are easy to see. The legal responsibilities of others who published the information are less clear "If they can claim journalistic privilege ... it gives them a lot of different rights and privileges. [A journalist] doesn't have to give up his sources, Are bloggers considered to be journalists under the law? That issue, legal experts say, is still up in the air. "Everyone has something to say and a means to say it -- so are they all journalists?" asked Christie. "Is there a difference between full-time, traditional journalists and all these Johnny-come-latelies? It'll be hard to say. How much of a blogger do you have to be to qualify as a journalist? That's a burgeoning gray area that is just starting to be fleshed out in the courts."