Tag: Legal

President Obama Doesn’t Support SOPA, But Signs ACTA?
Move over SOPA, tell ACTA the news? Or is this more of a case of "move over SOPA, it's ACTA time?" Or does, "Stop! ACTA time!" work? For me, it's "just when you thought it was s...
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Samsung Wins Decision Against Apple In On-Going Patent Wars
Samsung and their Galaxy Tab have been given the green light to be sold in the Netherlands and distributed throughout the European Union. That's the word from Florian Mueller over...
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Hackers Take Control of U.S. Railway
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has just released reports on a cyber attack which occurred on December 1st of this past year. Nor...
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Colorado Judge Denies Fifth Amendment Applies to Encryption Passphrases
"I find and conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer,"...
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“Polish Underground” Takes Down Government Websites
In Warsaw, a group call the "Polish Underground" targeted the Polish Government's website. This comes following the weekends attack on websites belonging to Poland's president, pri...
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EFF Held An AMA Q&A Today On Reddit About SOPA, PIPA, et al.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's activism team visited the land of Reddit today with a mission: .ditto16153426481762...
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H.R. 1981 Is A Turd Wrapped In Cotton Candy
Sometimes it feels like we're all just playing a big game of electronic privacy whack-a-mole. And if we hold true to that analogy, the next mole that needs to be whacked might loo...
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Doesn’t Make Bail
Seven of Megaupload's employees and the company itself are accused of providing copyrighted material online without paying royalties. The company's staff and Founder Kim Dotcom has...
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SOPA and PIPA Bills Lack Common Sense
Did you know that a majority of new laws passed on our books in this country get passed via the efforts of special interest groups and lobbyists? What does that mean? It means a sm...
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SOPA: Twitter Weighs In On GOP Debate
As we reported earlier, all four candidates in last night's GOP debate in South Carolina stated their...
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Chris Dodd Talks SOPA/PIPA Shelving
Everybody's favorite former Senator and MPAA boss, Chris Dodd, must not be in a great mood these days after both...
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Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence For Web Developer
The highest court in Iran has upheld a death sentence for a web developer for "being part of a 'network of decadence on the Internet.'" Specifically, the Iran's Supreme Court ma...
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SOPA: GOP Candidates All Agree
Last night's CNN debate in South Carolina found all four remaining GOP candidates in harmony on one issue at least. They all feel that SOPA is overreaching and needs to be rethough...
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Exclusive: SOPA, From a Filmmaker’s Perspective
Jeff Day makes independent films. The budget for his 2010 production, "Unrequited" was just under $2 Millio...
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MegaUpload Shut Down By Feds
MegaUpload, one of the world’s most popular file sharing sites, has been shut down by the federal government. Washington has released a press release today saying that they hav...
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