Friends believed he had probably set sail instead from his home on Bressay, an outlying island. By the afternoon, the case was over and settled. The parties agreed to bear their own costs. On points, this week's result was a victory for the News side. But the climbdown is, more importantly, a victory for the Net.
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The most troubling thought to take away was that a vitally important matter of electronic law could have been decided in such uncomfortable and partially informed circumstances. Not a laptop was to be seen anywhere. A judge's ability to ride above these technical hitches should not be derided, but it did seem that his court had been called in order to host Toddlers in Cyberspace.