Adware special report

Over the next week, in place of regular blogging, while my brain eases out of vacation mode back into info-aggregating mode, I will be posting a series of posts about adware, focusing on legislation and litigation, abridged and adapted from a seminar paper.
Prelude: Pop-ups trigger more lawsuits (5/19)
Part 1: Defining Adware (5/20)
Part 2: Litigation summary
Part 3: Regulatory goals
Part 4: Legislation