Although stalled in the House, the“CAN SPAM” bill, was approved in the Senate Wednesday by a vote of 97-0. The bill prohinits Spammers from disguising their identity, using fake return email addresses and misdescriptive subject lines. The bill also includes No-Bot address collection and Opt-out provisions.

UPDATE SunnComm has decided not to pursue Princeton Ph.D. student John Halderman for publishing the simple circumvention of SunnComm's software and costing the company, it its words, $10M in capitalization. Experts remain fearful that the DMCA continues to chill research in the field of software security.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is being stretched to its limit in the case of Princeton Ph.D. student John Halderman. Halderman's website explains that pressing the "Shift" key when loading BMG soul artist Anthony Hamilton's new CD prevents antipiracy software from loading off of the CD and onto one’s computer. This ostensibly allows a user to copy the contents of the CD. If BMG were to successfully pursue Halderman under the DMCA, this would mark the first time the DMCA "anticircumvention" provisions were used to enjoin ordinary commercial software not specially dedicated to "cracking."