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Rush (The Band) Wants Off Rush: For Once We Actually Agree With Copyright Lawyers [Copyright]





Rush—the Canadian rock group—is pissed at Rush Limbaugh. Rush (the band) realized that the conservative radio host was playing their epic anthems on air and sent Limbaugh's show a cease-and-des...
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Is OnLive Violating Microsoft's Licensing Agreements? [Onlive]





Though you might expect a company whose business model is based around sharing installations of Windows via the web to have thought about licensing... you'd be wrong. Microsoft is claiming that OnLive&mda...
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MPAA Goes for Hotfile's Jugular with Summary Judgment Request [File Sharing]





With MegaUpload out of the picture and numerous other file-sharing sites running scared, the MPAA has another major content hub in its sights. And from the looks of court documents unsealed this week, Hotf...
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Did Law Enforcement Originate with Self-Policing Chimps? [Science]





Chimp Cop may be a loose cannon, he may play hard and fast with his feces, but he's the best damn detective this troupe has ever seen! And if there's anyone that can defuse that banana bomb, you can bet yo...
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The Government Says It Can Seize Any .Com Domain [Law]





For months, the US Government has issued court orders in order to seize and shutdown sites—even when the domain names are registered abroad. Now it has made its position on domains perfectly clear: I...
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Google and Motorola Forced to Hand Over Android Development Secrets to Apple [Google]





Google and a Motorola Mobility unit have been ordered by a US judge to turn over details relating to the development of Android to Apple. Along with it, Google is to hand over information about Google's pe...
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Why ‘Mastered For iTunes’ Won’t Defuse a Copyright Time Bomb [Video]





Next year, a time bomb embedded in the Copyright Act of 1976 starts to detonate, as valuable copyrights fall back into the hands of artists who decide that they would prefer to own their songs, rather tha...
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The FBI Can't Find Many of Its GPS Trackers Now That They're Turned Off [Privacy]





The US Supreme Court had outlawed the FBI's use of GPS trackers so the FBI complied by shutting down all its devices but now is apparently having trouble actually retrieving the hardware. Because the GPS u...
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Google's New Privacy Policy Violates EU Law [Google]





On BBC Radio this morning, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that the EU had investigated Google's new Privacy Policy—which gives Google access to the activity of all its users across all i...
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Feds Decrypt Defendant's Laptop Without Her Permission [Crime]





Remember the defendant in that fraud case who claimed to have forgotten the password for her encrypted laptop? Well, the Feds have gone ahead and cracked it right open, without her permission. More ...
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25 Anonymous Suspects Arrested in Global Interpol Sting [Anonymous]





Dozens of alleged Anonymous members have been arrested in a global clampdown, spanning Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain. More »



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Can Obama's New Consumer Privacy Bill Keep Your Data Safe? [Privacy]





Today, the Obama administration is to unveil a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which it hopes to roll out in order to protect people's privacy online. The question is, can it work? More »...
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Apps That Abuse Privacy Will Now Be Punished By the Law [Privacy]





Kamala Harris, California's Attorney General, says the state has reached an agreement with Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM and others to prosecute developers who do not abide by new privacy policies. Basical...
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Iran Nixes VPN Access Ahead of Parliamentary Elections [Internet]





Just a week after cutting off access to email and social networking sites, the Iranian government has blocked Virtual Private Networks, apparently to boost support for the ruling party in the upcoming elec...
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Student Facebook Hacker Jailed for Eight Months [Facebook]





A software development student from the UK has been sentenced to eight months in prison, after infiltrating the servers of Facebook between April and May last year. Facebook spent $200,000 dealing with th...
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Watch the Saddest Robbery Attempt Ever Caught on a Security Camera [Video]





This is hilariously pitiful. An armed robber stormed a bar and demanded everyone give him their money. Usually, everyone freaks out and hands over everything they have. Not in this case. At this bar in Ro...
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Here's the Letter Congress Sent to Apple Asking What the Hell Is Going On with Path [Apple]





Path messed up. The app was collecting address book data without user permission and it pissed off a lot of people. Now even Congress is getting involved, wondering what the hell happened. Congress has sen...
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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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