LEO: So Christoph Angerer in Zurich, Switzerland asks why encrypted security is all or nothing: Steve, I was just listening to 254 - our last episode - your discussion of open vs. encrypted wireless routers in the Google case.

If the concern in the Google case is for copyrighted works "for which the copyright holder cannot be identified," then how is it possible for Google to enter into any agreement whatever with "existing copyright holders,"--since we've already established that we don't know who they are?

He continues, "Such sentiment goes beyond the Internet censorship and cyberspying that led to Google's Jan. 12 threat to bail out of China, or the clash of values (freedom vs. control) implied by the Google case.

Despite the adverse ruling in the Google case, Perfect 10 has decided to take its fight to Microsoft.

Ms. Hanson, who did the "rent boy" search, said that although she was aware that personal information was not being required in the Google case, she remained uneasy.

EU could decide on Google antitrust case by end of March 3.

The government's move in the Google case, however, is different in its aims.

Whatever the courts ultimately decide on the pornography law at issue, however, Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, said the Google case pointed to a larger struggle for the identity of the Internet.