The Present Status of Bitcoin Regulations in the United States
Now that Bitcoin recently crossed the $1,000.00 threshold for the first time in its short life, a discussion on the regulatory status of Bitcoin in the United States ("U.S.") is…
John Arsenault
John Arsenault is a Colorado Patent Attorney, partner of Wessels & Arsenault, LLC and General Counsel for London Trust Media, Inc./Private Internet Access. John enjoys both college and professional sports in addition to snowboarding, tennis, computer technology, video games, and trivia.
Posts by john:
U.S. flip-flops on U.N. international online privacy protections it originally criticized
With the recent attention drawn to massive ongoing surveillance of the internet, Brazil and Germany proposed a resolution to the United Nations (“U.N.”) General Assembly on November 07, 2013, that…
Can a fight from Google and Microsoft force transparency from the NSA?
The revelations during the past year over the National Security Agency ("NSA") and its surveillance of major internet service providers have placed into question the integrity of companies we have…
Do VPNs fall under the data retention requirements of the Stored Communications Act?
One of the common areas of confusion regarding law and online privacy is the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, and how it applies to government requests for…
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
There has been a lot of talk lately about the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and its neighbor Barbados, and their recent plan to lawfully sell US copyrighted works without…
Is Ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement likely?
Enactment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") Free Trade Agreement would, amongst other changes, attempt to harmonize the patchwork of copyright laws across the various Signatories. Activists are concerned because sections…