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• Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 747
  Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the company’s spying ...
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• ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor The Internet Security Alliance held a luncheon at the National Press Club today to unveil their much anticipated recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration regarding the future course of national cybersecurity ...
  3 days ago

• Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Censorship

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Censorship : Via EFF.org Updates . This is the fifth in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement. As weve explained in earlier posts, when it comes to evaluating the proposed Google Books settlement, the principal potential benefit to the public ...
  3 days ago

• ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor The Internet Security Alliance held a luncheon at the National Press Club today to unveil their much anticipated recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration regarding the future course of national cybersecurity ...
  3 days ago

• Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 159
  Earlier this year a new BitTorrent tracker was launched. Due to its public nature, OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker, which has recently closed down for good. OpenBitTorrent is merely a tracker, carries no .torrent files and also operates a full DMCA-style ...
  4 days ago

• EU: Obama is too beholden to Hollywood

  
  RedState — Authority: 787
  In another triumph of openness for the Hopenchange™ administration, the secret negotations of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement (ACTA) continue. And according to Wired, they’re not going well for the President . A note from the EU to the US was leaked and published to a European website, and ...
  4 days ago

• Apple vs. Psystar is Not Over

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 646
  Today Apple reached a deal with Mac clone maker Psystar ahead of a federal court case that could have granted Apple an injunction forbidding Psystar from preinstalling Apple’s OS X software on its products. However, the settlement was very specific to what it actually settled, which means the companies will ...
  4 days ago

• Sometimes Tenacity Is Not a Good Thing

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 597
  Psystar, that little upstart that was squashed like a bug last week in court by Apple over its Hackintosh clones, has taken a licking, and kept on ticking. Today it has come back with yet another partial defense, with hopes to keep itself in business. The company would not be a maker of clones, but would merely be a ...
  4 days ago

• Apple dings Psystar for $2.67m, round two heads to Florida

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  It looks like the first phase of the Apple / Psystar Mac cloning saga is winding towards a conclusion, as the two sides have just filed to wrap up their case with the California court that ruled decisively in favor of Apple last month . Here is the original post: Apple dings Psystar for $2.67m, round two heads ...
  5 days ago

• How DRM anticircumvention laws stifle innovation

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Found via BoingBoing : a 54-page law journal essay by Wendy Seltzer discussing how Digital Rights Management anti-circumvention laws prevent almost all innovation around the media that they protect. Scholars have described DRM’s failures to protect copyright exceptions, its failures to stop unauthorized ...
  5 days ago

• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 135
  The European Commission analysis of ACTA’s Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available). The document ...
  6 days ago

• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 659
  The European Commission analysis of ACTAs Internet chapter has leaked , indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available).  The ...
  6 days ago

• New Paper: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation

  
  Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags — Authority: 100
  Why did it take nearly a decade for portable video to move beyond compact DVD players? Why can we do so much more with music CDs and their successors than with DVDs and theirs? I argue the difference is baked-in DRM and its legal side-effects. Copyright scholars have been talking for a long time about the DMCA ...
  1 week ago

• Wendy Seltzer on the other problem with DRM

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Wendy Seltzer has posted an article that will run in Berkeley technology Law Journal (Jan. 25 2010) . In it she argues that the problems with DRM go beyond its failure to accommodate Fair Use: The fair use debate is important, but it is not the only problem with DRM. Equally important, but thus far largely ...
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• DVD purchasers (and "creative users") are not pirates!

  
  Bill Boushka — Authority: 126
  Check out this article (Nov. 20) by Electronic Frontier Foundation counsel Fred Lohmann, “DVD Customers Are Not Movie Pirates”. He makes numerous important points: innovators who would allow legally purchased DVD’s to be used at multiple locations in a house with hard drive access get sued. Studios are ...
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• How to alienate?

  
  Shopping Cart Disco — Authority: 134
  Sometimes, LL prove how inept they are with one click of a button, and this – is one of those times. Today I received an email, alerting me that I was having a DMCA claim filed against me. In panic I examined the email. Wait…[FhangV] AO Collection?? Umm, correct me if I am wrong but my store has nothing to do ...
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• MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable companies to shut down the analog streams on video-on-demand movie programming. As Ars readers know, ...
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• Student Voices in the P2P Provisions of the 2008 HEOA

  
  FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture — Authority: 450
  As you undoubtedly know, college campuses are, in many ways, ground zero for the battles being waged for the future of intellectual property. The thousands of Americans that have been sued by the entertainment industry in the past few years include countless students who were accused of illegally downloading music. ...
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• DVD Customers are Not DVD Pirates

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  DVD Customers are Not DVD Pirates : Via EFF.org Updates . Ive published an op-ed over at The Wrap, a leading blog for Hollywood insiders. It makes the point that Hollywoods attacks on DVD innovators ( RealDVD , Kaleidescape , Redbox ) amount to an attack on legitimate DVD customers who are trying to pay for ...
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• Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles Covers

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles Covers : Via Threat Level . A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz, California, company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions ...
  1 week ago

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