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The idea that MySpace was responsible for an offline sexual assault fell on deaf judicial ears as a Texas judge dismisses a $30 million lawsuit filed by the parents of a 13-year-old girl. The drama occurred last spring after a Texas girl, who misrepresented herself as a 14-year-old (the minimum age to use MySpace), arranged to meet 19-year-old Pete Solis, who also lied about his age, near the girl's home. Solis was later arrested and charged with sexual assault.

People are busy. Email piles up. Probably why some of the prominent bloggers I solicited for a response to a British proposal that somebody regulate these free-wheeling, free-speaking modern yarn-weavers were too late for an earlier article. Shows what a swell, free market of ideas guy I am - and how nicely updatable Internet content is. Here's a follow-up with those responses from people you know.

What people by and large were calling a "sour grapes" lawsuit by self-proclaimed MySpace founder and Intermix board member Brad Greenspan against News Corp., was fully dismissed by a Superior Court judge on Monday.

KinderStart will amend its complaint against Google for effectively dropping the KinderStart website from its index when Google assigned the company a zero PageRank.

The saga of Kai-Fu Lee continues as his new employer seeks summary judgment in federal court.

Rambus announced that the Virginia judge in the patent infringement case against Infineon has again dismissed Rambus's patent infringement claims.