一上午,电话不断,原定计划被突发事件敲得粉碎.
下午去法院,
之后赶车去天津
感叹,法律人首先是个社会人,决断法律问题的力量似乎总在法律之外,。。。

Online pirates forced to walk the plank
Jun 27th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda


America’s Supreme Court has ruled that makers of peer-to-peer file-swapping technology can be held responsible for the copyright infringement that their products allow. This may stop much of the free downloading of music and film over the internet, but it will not cure the entertainment business’s ills. Nor will it do much for innovation
美国最高法院已经达成一项规则，使用者直接面对面的文档交换技术制造者应当对他们产品所许可的侵犯版权行为承担责任。这项规定也许会制止因特网上众多的音乐和影片的免费下载，但是它不能安抚娱乐经营商们的心疾。于革新亦无太多贡献。

LAST weekend over 110,000 music fans paid £125 ($228) each to attend the Glastonbury festival in Britain’s West Country and hear their favourite bands perform. In years gone by, many thousands more attended than paid, as less scrupulous festival-goers jumped the fence to watch the bands for free. The organisers stam。。。

Agreeing on Africa, up to a point

Jun 11th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda


George Bush and Tony Blair have agreed that America will funnel more money towards Africa, and the G8 has reached a deal on broad-based debt relief. But if rich countries are really serious about poverty reduction, they should also curb subsidies that keep out products from the poor world
乔治。布什和托尼。布莱尔已达成一致意见，美国将向非洲提供更多的货币援助，同时8国集团就减免非洲大规模的债务已达成一项交易。但是如果这些富国们真的认真对待减少非洲的贫困问题，他们应当放弃那些将贫穷国家的产品挡在门外的补助金。
IS 2005 the year when Africa finally starts getting the help it needs to pull its inhabitants out of penury? Tony Blair certainly hopes so. The British prime minister has made reducing African poverty the centrepiece of his presidency of the G8. In preparation for the group of rich nations’ summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, which is coming up in July, he has worked hard to secu。。。

干了几种工作，从法官到公司法务再到律师，一路走来倒也顺。只是刚入法学院时心中的梦渐行渐远。法的形象在这几年里几经变换，如今他已变得面目全非。曾以为无论是在机关还是做公司法务都免不了有几人篱下的感觉，曾天真地认为自由职业或许真的可以为自己的理想而奋斗了，在走出机关的大门时，面对来接的哥们，我大声喊，好好干一场，跟他们拼了。。。。