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Now The Largest Game Companies In The World Have Dropped Support For A Bill The Internet Hates

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

businessinsider.com - Dec. 30 (News) - Whew.

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Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim, Zach Carter, Paul Blumenthal - Sep. 25 (Special Report) - [Google] is now giving money to the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Republican Governors Association, the GOP firm The David All Group, Crossroads Strategies, the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Republican State Leadership Committee, among others. On Thursday, Google and Fox News cosponsored a Republican presidential debate.

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U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

eff.org - By Corynne McSherry - Nov. 30 (News Analysis) - Over the past few days, the U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. Attorneys’ Offices seized 82 domain names of websites they claim were engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and illegal copyrighted works.

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U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

torrentfreak.com - By Enigmax - Nov. 26 (News) - Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.

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Twitter Gets to Use Your Photos, for Free? (Updated)

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Violet Blue - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Twitter has been making a lot of changes lately, and photographers may want to re-read that fine print in the Terms of Service... every photo you share on Twitter can be sub-licensed by Twitter, or worse - all royalty-free.

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Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement" Bill

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

eff.org - By Richard Esguuerra - Sep. 21 (News Analysis) - COICA sends the world the message that the United States approves of unilateral Internet censorship. Which governments deny their citizens access to parts of the Internet? For now, it is mostly totalitarian, profoundly anti-democratic regimes that keep their citizens from seeing the whole Internet. With this bill, the United States risks telling countries throughout the world, "Unilateral censorship of websites that the government doesn't like is okay — and this is how you do it."

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Patent Office Admits the Truth: Things Are a Disaster

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

bnet.com - By Erik Sherman - Sep. 10 (News Analysis) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos, has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson? As a number of people who watch the organization have thought, for years — years — the USPTO has blown smoke and lived in a world of denial and obfuscation.

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Iranian Government Runs Public Warez Server

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

torrentfreak.com - By Ernesto - Aug. 24 (Investigative Report) - The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology is directly connected to the Iranian Government. Aside from evaluating and advising policy makers on science and technology issues, the largest research outfit in the country also provides a warez server where Photoshop, MS Office and many other applications can be downloaded for free.

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Why Our Civilization's Video Art is Threatened by MPEG-LA

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

osnews.com - May. 01 (Special Report) - We've all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties. Even with these facts, I kept supporting the best-performing "delivery" codec in the market, which is h.264. "Let the best win", I kept thinking. But it wasn't until very recently when I was made aware that the problem is way deeper.

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ACTA arrives (and it's gotten a tiny bit better)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - With the first official release of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Ars dives deep into the substance of the secretive document, travels back in time to explain just how and why ACTA came to be, and looks at how it will affect us all in the future.

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Concerns About Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Issa Villarreal - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The last meeting of negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has provoked the protest of online communities against both its content and the circumstances of their negotiations

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Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use"

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - May. 19 (News Report) - Should Nesson win, he will essentially legalize the sharing of all digital goods, copyrighted or not, by noncommercial users. Given that he wants to make the case about big principles like fair use and the applicability of statutory damages—and not about whether Joel Tenenbaum did what he is accused of doing—the music industry is likely to fight even harder to ensure that Nesson's preferred outcome is not realized.

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Mozilla, Skype support EFF's case for iPhone jailbreaking

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

appleinsider.com - By Prince McLean - Feb. 18 (Investigative Report) - The exemption would strip Apple of its ability to charge groups with DMCA violations for circumventing the iPhone's security by modifying Apple's internal iPhone software, as long as they did it under the cover of "enabling interoperability," according to the exemption wording proposed by the EFF. The jailbreak arguments Users can already bypass Apple's security system by jailbreaking their iPhones using freely available software. This allows the users to run software that Apple does not allow in its App Store. It also allows users to bootleg pirated iPhone software, strips the iPhone of any functional protection from malware, and complicates Apple's ability to release software updates, as the modified firmware on jailbroken phones can result in failed software updates that render the phone unreliable or even unusable until it is restored back to factory default settings. Speaking for the EFF, Fred von Lohmann has called Apple's argument against the exemption "FUD," "corporate paternalism," and "absurdity." Apple's fillings say the EFF's new exemption request is unnecessary, as the DMCA already has provisions that allow circumvention to enable interoperability. It also claims the EFF is merely trying to use the courts to attack its unique business model, and that the EFF does not present any evidence to back up its claims that legitimizing jailbreaking would result in increased innovation.

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Congress considers bill to make radio

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Dec. 19 (News Report) - While radio does pay a fee to songwriters, it pays no performance rights fee, in contrast to just about every other developed country on the planet. The broadcasters argue that they are providing free advertising to musicians, who then make money from touring and record sales.

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Download A Song -- Lose Your Loan

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:24:10 -0800

AlterNet - By Larisa Mann, WireTap. - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Glory be, the big copyright owners have found yet another way to threaten students' access to education -- this time by going for the biggest support of higher education -- federal funding.

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Court rules on two patent cases, and on high-speed chase

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:50:23 -0700

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Apr. 30 (News Report) - The Supreme Court, in a major victory for Microsoft Corp., ruled by a 7-1 vote on Monday that U.S. patent law does not bar foreign making of copies of digital code to be installed in computers made and sold abroad. Current patent law does not reach that far, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the Court. If patent law is to be adjusted to account for "the realities of software distribution," that is up to Congress, the Court said. Justice John Paul Stevens was the lone dissenter; Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., took no part in the ruling. The case was Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T (05-1056).

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Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:00:39 -0700

Ars Technica - By Eric Bangeman - Apr. 16 (News Report) - A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The panel's ruling reaffirmed the original CRB decision in every respect, with the exception of how the royalties will be calculated. Instead of charging a royalty for each time a song is heard by a listener online, Internet broadcasters will be able pay royalties based on average listening hours through the end of 2008.

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