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Texas Jury Smacks Down Latest Shakedown Attempts of Infamous Patent Troll [Lawsuits]





Tim "I helped invent the Internet" Berners-Lee testified before a federal jury earlier this week, tearing into the validity of a key patent Eolas Technologies' was exploiting to sue multiple web companies ...
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One Year Later
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.  -  Napoleon Bonaparte
Most of the updates featured on this blog are indirect; in other words, they’re new stories which call to mind some feature of the issue covered in the updat...
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Ben Franklin's Ghost Teaches You Photographer's Rights [Video]





It's easier than ever to capture images of public goings-on with all our fancy camera gadgets. If you find yourself in the middle of some contentious event—particularly when the police are involved&...
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Google Plans to Snatch 2.25 Per Cent of Every iPhone Sale [Google]





There have been plenty of legal wranglings between Motorola and Apple, and with Google buying Motorola that doesn't show signs of stopping. Now, Google plans to grab 2.25 per cent of every iPhone sale beca...
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Stephen Fry on a Generation of Technophobic Judges [Video]





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Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man's Adult Daughter on Facebook [Crime]





A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on...
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How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook's Privacy Policy in Europe [Facebook]





To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the ass. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming...
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Kim Dotcom Refused an Appeal and Still Denied Bail [Megaupload]





Kim Dotcom has been refused an appeal to be freed on bail by a New Zealand court, as its opinion that he is a "flight risk" still hasn't changed. More »



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The EFF sets up a site to help Megaupload users get their files back
It’s been two weeks since the Department of Justice arrested seven employees of Megaupload and shut it down. After all of the back and forth discussion about how this landmark case affects our online rights, the actual users of the site have been f...
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The Newest Internet Law to Worry About [Internet]





Following in the proud, wide, footsteps of SOPA and PIPA, the Senate is set to vote on another internet regulation bill this week—and the web is worrying already. Justified? Maybe. Unfortunately, the...
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Moloch
MOLOCH, horrid King besmear’d with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents tears,
Though, for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud,
Their children’s cries unheard that passed through fire
To his grim Idol.  -  John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I)...
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We’re Not Done Yet
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.  -  Charles Caleb Colton
What, you thought we were finished with updates for the month?  I’m getting so many of these now I’ll soon be changing the way I handle them; look for a new feat...
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Sex, Lies and Busybodies
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.  -  Plato
A busybody is, by definition, one who cannot resist meddling in other people’s business even when his victim’s actions have absolutely no effect on ...
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Scapegoats
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.  -  Woody Allen, What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Humans are obsessed with assigning blame.  To a degree, this is understandable; when something bad happens, we want to know wh...
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Hawaii Wants to Ruin Paradise By Invading Your Privacy and Keeping Track of Every Website You Visit [Privacy]





Hawaii! You're supposed to be the state that us contiguous folks dream about moving to so we can escape the noise and interwaves of computers and Internet. You're not supposed to be the state that pushes a...
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Kim Dotcom Denied Bail in MegaUpload Case, Deemed a "Flight Risk" [Megaupload]





That bail hearing scheduled for Monday in the MegaUpload conspiracy trial didn't go as well as MU founder Kim Dotcom had hoped. It looks like he's going to remain in custody for a few more weeks. More&n...
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Encrypting Your Hard Drive No Longer Works Against Federal Prosecution [Law]





Sometimes common "street smarts" fail you. Like when you ask the guy who's selling you drugs if he's a cop. Or when you encrypt your hard drive and refuse to unlock it for prosecutors while citing the self...
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Supreme Court: Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Unconstitutional [Privacy]





The Supreme Court just shut down a major tech controversy: police planting a GPS bug without your knowledge or the approval of a judge. By a unanimous decision, the court said such warrantless tracking is ...
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Supreme Court Gives the Go Ahead for Re-Copyrighting Public Domain Works [Copyright]





You've got to be kidding me. The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Congress can remove works from the public domain and re-copyright them in order to bring the the pieces into compliance with internati...
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Congress Is Crawling out of the Woodwork to Oppose SOPA [Infographics]





See? Congress does listen to the will of the people on occasion—especially when that will is wielded as a blunt instrument. As this infographic from ProPublica illustrates, yesterday's blackout prote...
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Wikipedia Will Go Offline Wednesday for SOPA Protest [Sopa]





Despite rumblings from Capitol Hill that the recently-defanged SOPA legislation not see the light of day, Wikipedia announced today that, "The Internet must remain free" and that it is joining the blackout...
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SOPA Legislation Gets Slightly Less Terrible [Sopa]





Score one for the Internet. One of SOPA's most controversial provisions—DNS blocking—will be removed, for now at least, according to one of the act's staunchest supporters, Representative Lamar...
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Advice On Car Insurance Australia For You
On the roads of Australia, there are thousands of cars. No matter how carefully driven, there is always a possibility that danger could strike, as it may be outside your control. To cover such possibilities, policies from car insurance Australia could pro...
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Hasbro Sues Asus Over The Name Transformer Prime [Asus]





I don't know about you, but I often get confused between fictional robots that can assume the form of everyday objects, and fancy new Android tablets. Fortunately, toymaker Hasbro feels my pain. More&n...
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Confused by the Stop Online Piracy Act? Here’s ‘SOPA For Dummies’
I’m not afraid to admit that I’ve found myself completely confused by the Stop Online Piracy Act, better known as SOPA. Politicians bank on Internet users being confused about the act as well, so it’s time to brush up on your SOPA knowle...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Is the Worst Possible Movie to Go to Prison Over [Piracy]





Shit just got real in the War on Piracy with a US District Court judge handing out a year-long prison sentence to a New York resident for uploading a single, terrible movie. More »



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British Telecom Suing Google Over Mass Patent Infringement [Google]





UK-based communications giant British Telecom has filed a law suit alleging that almost every Google product infringes at least one of six of their patents. But should we really care? More »...
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Fighting SOPA? Go grab this t-shirt that only geeks will understand
Kickstarter truly is a wonderful place. In an instant, an idea can turn into an actual product. Take the “I FOUGHT SOPA AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID T-SHIRT” project. The Kickstarter project to get this t-shirt into production started today a...
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US Federal Judge Compares Twitter Users to Colonial Americans [Twitter]





A judge has ruled that prosecuting a man for posting harassing tweets violated his First Amendment rights. Great! But the judges great analogy comparing Twitter users with early American settlers is what r...
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Congress Has Only Said LOL Once [Congress]





On March 28, 2007, Texas' Republican rep K. Conaway said LOL. It's the one and only time. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation's new Capitol Words tool, you can search everything Congress has said since '96. ...
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Motorola Wins Europe-Wide Sales Ban Against iOS Devices [Apple]





Apple just found itself on the receiving-end of some legal hurt. Motorola has successfully sued Apple in Germany, paving the way for a Europe-wise sales ban on basically all iOS devices. Better get those A...
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Courts Take Deeply Problematic Actions Against Fake Chanel Websites [Sopa]





Chanel has seized the domain names of more than 600 websites that sell counterfeit products thanks to a series of unprecedented court orders. Search engines and social networks have also been ordered to "d...
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Pilot Project with Mini Wind Turbines as Chance for Energy Independence
The town of Kuchl, near Salzburg in Austria, strives for sustainability – not only with wood, but also with electricity. Around 500 visitors from Germany and Austria gathered to see the successful inauguration of T4L (Technologies for Life) GmbH’s new win...
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Grooveshark Will Soon Be Destroyed [Music]





Remember Grooveshark, the magical website that let you stream any song you wanted, in high quality, for free? Did you ever wonder how such a thing managed to avoid legal annihilation? Trick question! It ha...
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Apple's Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down [Piracy]





The Business Software Association, which includes tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, has reversed its stance on the controversial (and awful!) Stop Online Piracy Act: now it doesn't like it. Goo...
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Apple, Microsoft, and the 27 Other Tech Giants Who Support the Awful Internet Censorship Bill [Piracy]






The Next Web's Alex Wilhelm noticed something interesting—after trying to get a comment from Microsoft over the fascist Stop Online Piracy Act, he received silence. So he dug around and found Micros...
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Texas Judge Puts the Kibosh on "Unconstitutional" Cellphone Tracking Law [Espionage]






US District Court judge Lynn N. Hughes has struck down a recently-passed law that would have allowed law enforcement to obtain cell phone records without a warrant. Sorry Feds. More »

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To combat SOPA, Tumblr generates 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives
To combat the ill-conceived “Stop Online Piracy Act”, or commonly referred to as “SOPA” on the Internet, Tumblr asked its users to make phone calls to their U.S. Representatives to make their feelings known.
Tumblr users complied, ...
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To combat SOPA, Tumblr generates 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives
To combat the ill-conceived “Stop Online Piracy Act”, or commonly referred to as “SOPA” on the Internet, Tumblr asked its users to make phone calls to their U.S. Representatives to make their feelings known.
Tumblr users complied, ...
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The Internet-Crippling Bill Might Get Slightly Less Terrible [Internet]






Legislation that would prevent Americans from visiting websites the government claims are violating copyright rules had a tumultuous first hearing Wednesday, with its main sponsor unexpectedly expressing ...
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DOJ Wants to Outlaw Lying on the Internet [Doj]






It's a cornerstone of the Internet. The fake identity. And now CNET reports that the DOJ wants to make it illegal to use a false identity on Facebook or lie about your weight on Match.com. You're kidding ...
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Congress Can Shove the Robocall Bill up Its Pork-Fed Ass [Video]






Since 1991, marketing robocalls in the US have been as tightly regulated as medicine, meth, and murder. But if HR 3035 makes its way through Congress, it's going to be open season for the automatons to ca...
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What You Need To Know About the New Copyfight [Copyright]






You may have heard rumblings and grumblings about a Senate bill that would "effectively destroy" YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Google+, and any other service that lets people post things on the int...
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Tireless Samsung Wants iPhone 4S Ban in Japan and Australia [Samsung]


Quixotic patent commando Samsung continues its doomed crusade against Apple, pushing for more national bans against the sale of the iPhone 4S. This time? Japan and Australia, where Sammy's lawyers say Apple's stealing mobile tech. This is g...
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Even Samsung's Lawyers Can't Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad [Apple]






Apple says Samsung's blatantly ripped off its device designs. Not true, Samsung replies! Too bad its lawyer blew that argument harder than a hydrogen bomb blowjob: they couldn't tell the difference betwee...
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Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Return to California [Privacy]






Privacy took another kick to the face when California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would require the police to obtain a warrant to search a mobile phone upon arrest of a suspect. More ...
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Cops Take Down LulzSec and Anon Hackers—And One of Them's Homeless (Updated: Names Named!) [Hackers]






The tables have turned a bit more! Police claim they've got two more members of the world's foremost celebrity hacker groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, in custody. And one of them was living (and hacking!) h...
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There Will Be No More Warrantless Cell Phone Searches in California [Privacy]






Californians can finally breathe easy for having regained their privacy rights. A new law passed by the state Assembly bans the warrantless search of not just cell phones, but all portables that could con...
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Sept. 21 Could Be D-Day for AT&T/T-Mobile Merger [At&t]






The government's attempt to block the AT&T-T-Mobile merger will see its first day in court just two short weeks from now. The goal of the hearing: figure out of there's a way to settle this all civilized ...
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