Cockfighting on Web Enters Legal Arena
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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Bird-on-bird magazines ruffle feathers The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has slapped Amazon.com with a lawsuit aimed at preventing the online retailer punting cockfighting magazines and dogfighting videos, Computerworld reports.â¦
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In a victory for animal-rights  supporters, a U.S. district court ruled on Wednesday that  members of the U.S. chapter of the Humane Society can sue the  federal government over the way chickens and turkeys are  slaughtered.
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Though communications protections exist, the law is fuzzy regarding internet and e-mail activity. Watch out for the legalization of digital mind readers tracing internet users' thoughts and interests, and trampling privacy rights in the process.
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A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a Web site facing a lawsuit over an article that revealed trade secrets about an Apple computer.
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Google gets into the Web registration business.
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A  new Web site for foodies of both the cooking and the dining varieties appeared last month.
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The web video "Battle at Kruger," in which a baby buffalo is rescued by its herd from a lion attack, is less surprising to animal behaviorists than to its millions of Web fans
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By ERIC OLSON  OMAHA, Neb. - Type "Yorkies for sale" into an Internet search engine, and hundreds of Web sites come up.  Animal welfare advocates say the Internet has become the latest vehicle for large-scale dog breeding operations - or "puppy mills" - to sell their wares.
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Â· Football fans may face expensive libel claims Â· Defamation lawyers see growth area in cyberspace
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British amateur team The Fighting Cocks announced they are seeking the services of a goalkeeper, and the lucky person would have the fortune of being their 14th in the past year.
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A controversial website, www.live-shot.com, already allows Internet users to fire a .22 caliber rifle at targets on a Texas ranch from afar.
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The operator of a gambling news site on the Internet has asked a federal judge to declare that advertisements in U.S. media for foreign online casinos and sports betting outlets are protected by free-speech rights.
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The operator of a gambling news site on the Internet has asked a federal judge to declare that advertisements in U.S. media for foreign online casinos and sports betting outlets are protected by free-speech rights...
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A state senator has a plan for saving Oklahoma's gamefowl industry now that cockfighters are legally prohibited from pitting birds fitted with razor-like spurs. State Sen.
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A site that was the target of an innovative legal takedown maneuver was less vulnerable to more standard approaches. It signed up with what is perhaps the world's least lawyer-friendly Web hosting company.
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Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday.