Tag: Legal

MPAA Finds Internet Blackouts To Be “Irresponsible”
Today is the day where many popular sites are blacking out in an effort to protest the anti-piracy bills that certain members of the government are so blindly trying to force down...
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SOPA Blackout: Reddit Co-Founder Discusses Blackout
Reddit co-counder Alexis Ohanion dropped by CNN's newsroom today to discuss his website's blackout in opposition to SOPA/PIPA. In the discus...
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SOPA Blackout: Individual Protests On Facebook and Twitter
Since Facebook and Twitter have chosen to not blackout today in protest of SOPA/PIPA, individual users have started blacking out their own statuses and tweets (or parts thereof) to...
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SOPA Blackout: MoveOn.Org Joins Protest
Progressive political juggernaut, MoveOn.Org is blacked out in protest of the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation. Their homepage now features this: (image)...
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SOPA Blackout: The Oatmeal Shuts Down In Protest
Joining today's blackout protests against SOPA/PIPA, The Oatmeal has shut down. Instead of the usual home page, visitors are greeted with a...
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SOPA Blackout: SMBC Online Comic Joins Today’s Protests
Popular online comic "SMBC" joined the SOPA/PIPA protest blackout today. Rather than the usual front page, visitors were greeted with the bold headline: (image) Notice the li...
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Online Privacy Debate Heats Up With FTC And Commerce Dept. Reports Coming Soon
To say online privacy is a controversial area is an understatement. It's always been challenging but has gotten even more so with the rise of social networks, online shopping, and...
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Da Vinci Code Litigation
The Catholic Church is once again facing the heat in another child abuse scandal, this time in Manchester, England. According to Richard Scorer, a child abuse specialist in a Manch...
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SOPA Blackout… Without the Consequences
Josh Wolford's comprehensive rundown of the SOPA/PIPA protest blackouts sl...
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Apple Sues Samsung (Again) To Halt Sales In Germany
Whew. 2012 arrived and there was a brief concern that Apple and Samsung might drop their 2011 pastime of suing each other in as many countries as possibly. Lucky for, uh, I guess p...
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Lawyers Allege Possible Breaches of Fiduciary Duty By Netflix
Legal claims against the officers and Board of Directors of Netflix, by Former United States Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Willie Briscoe, founder of The Briscoe Law...
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Wikipedia SOPA/PIPA Blackout Pages
As part of a sustained effort against (the recently-shelved) SOPA and (still-threatening) PIPA bills before Congress and the Senate, respectively, Wikipedia has announced that they...
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Google Speaks Out Against Righthaven In Court
The last time we checked in with the Righthaven saga, righthaven.com had just been sold in a domai...
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Meet The Global Online Freedom Act Of 2011
Alongside SOPA, PIPA and OPEN, H.R. 3605 has joined the party. H.R. 3605, otherwise known as the Global Online Freedom Act of 2011 was drafted and introduced to the House on De...
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Are ISPs “Broadcasters”? Canada Will Find Out.
In Canada, the regulatory agency charged with overseeing broadcast distributors, Internet service providers,and telephone services is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunic...
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