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• Avast! The Pirate Bay’s Intellectual Property’s Been Boarded!

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 547
  If you haven’t heard of The Pirate Bay by now, you may want to emerge from that cave, wipe the sleepies from your eyes, and start getting caught up on your backed up WIRED magazines in the bathroom. The Pirate Bay (TPB) is a website run by a few Swedish intellectual property anarchists. [...]
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• Suit Claims Search Engine’s ‘Bing’ Name Infringes Trademark

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 688
  A small St. Louis design company claims in a lawsuit that Microsoft infringed its trademark when it called its new search engine Bing. The suit was filed in St. Louis circuit court this week by Bing! Information Design, according to Ars Technica, IDG News Service and a press release. The company, which creates ...
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• Route 60 Hyundai in Vero Beach, Flori-duh, I would like to introduce you to the Streisand Effect

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 547
  Same old story. Consumer goes to a car dealership. Consumer is unhappy with how he is treated at car dealership. Consumer bitches about car dealership on the internet. Car dealership deals with consumer and makes the situation right calls up attorney. Attorney sends really ill-advised letter to consumer, and then ...
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• Four short links: 17 December 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 625
  New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable -- "Im going to take my new device wherever I go," said Larson, holding the expensive item directly in the eyeline of several reporters. "That way no one on the street, inside the elevator, or at my place of business will ever mistake me for the sort of individual who ...
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• 22 Million Pieces of “Missing” Email from Bush Administration Discovered by Obama Computer Technicians

  
  The Internet Patrol — Authority: 125
  Two watchdog groups - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive - have announced that the Obama administration has uncovered 22 million pieces of email that were sent under the Bush administration, and that had gone missing. The discovery was made pursuant to - ...
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• EU Drops Microsoft Antitrust Case; Huge Fines Spur Conciliatory Trend

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 688
  The European Commission has dropped its antitrust case against Microsoft after the company agreed to offer customers a choice of up to 12 browsers. The settlement calls for Microsoft to send a screen of browser choices to Windows consumers who use Internet Explorer as their main browser, according to the New York ...
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• Sex For Sale On The Internet: Should Websites Be Liable For Adult Postings?

  
  TECH cocktail — Authority: 422
  SEX by Stuart Caie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyz / CC BY 2.0) Editor’s Notes: This article was contributed to TECH cocktail by John Guidos who practices law out of Chicago, Illinois at the Law Offices of Guidos & Pierotti LLP. Check out their website at: gplawchicago.com or follow John on Twitter: ...
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• FTC, GEP, & Market Research

  
  The Business of Creativity — Authority: 106
  What’s that title all about anyway!? If you’ve been paying attention, you know that as of December 1st, 2009 you can’t use your wonderfully true, but not typical (what I call “aspirational”) client testimonials in your marketing and advertising unless you clearly and conspicuously disclose “Generally ...
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• Court slaps down school’s punishment for off-campus pwnage

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 547
  By J. DeVoyFrom Boston.com:LOS ANGELES – One morning in May 2008, an eighth-grader walked into Janice Hart’s office at a Beverly Hills middle school crying.I love it when stories start that way.  Many of my real-life hypotheticals relate to crying, so naturally I love when the mainstream media brings it up. ...
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• Destroy the Trafigura Gag on the BBC: Blog This!

  
  Blurred Clarity — Authority: 119
  I hate Trafigura . So to be given the chance to thwart their desperate efforts to silence the BBC, who ran an expose piece on the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, gives me much pleasure. Sadly, the BBC bowed to the pressure and removed the piece but the blogging community can help put it straight with a ...
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• Discussion of Attorney Advertising and Ethics in Light of Web 2.0

  
  Amy Campbell's Web Log — Authority: 91
  Over at the Lawyerist is a good post discussing the implications of attorney advertising rules and ethics guidelines in light of new web technologies such as Linkedin. There don’t seem to be any clear answers, but some important things to think about… see the post at: Legal marketing ethics in a Web 2.0 world, by ...
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• Big Brother Can Spy on Me If I Work for Him?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 777
  Everybody’s up in arms about the lack of online privacy these days, but it seems like if you work for the U.S. government, you ought to be more worried than most. The Supreme Court said today that it’s considering a case involving monitored text messages from a government worker that could have big implications ...
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• Internet NZ weighs in on secret copyright negotiations

  
  Groupings — Authority: 122
  In its December newsletter (pdf file), Internet NZ is alarmed by media  stories  indicating a  change  in direction  in  the  latest  round  of  Anti-Counterfeiting  Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations. The ACTA negotiating round was held in Korea in early November, and  has  reportedly  shifted  ...
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• “Cyber Civil Rights” Prioritizes Civility Over Rights

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 547
  By J. DeVoyIn Danielle Citron’s paper Cyber Civil Rights, which she discussed at Denver Univeristy’s “Cyber Civil Rights” Symposium (summarized by Eric Goldman here), her contempt for existing First Amendment freedoms could not be clearer.  Though anonymous speech can shock and offend people, Citron proposes ...
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• China Closes Over 530 Audio-Video Service Websites

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 474
  China has closed down more than 530 audio-video service websites, including several major BitTorrent websites such as BTChina.net, as a result of its strengthened efforts to crack down on illegal online audio-video service providers.Cao Yunxia, a representative from Chinas State Administration of Radio, Film and ...
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• Virtual Parenting

  
  IowaBiz — Authority: 494
  What the Fork? Video games harbor potential dangers to children. So do forks. The reason forks do not grab as many headlines is two-fold. First, all adults understand forks and ridicule those who use them to self-inflict injury. Second, parents, at least responsible parents, do not allow their children unsupervised ...
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• Virtual Parenting

  
  BlawgIT — Authority: 99
  What the Fork? Video games harbor potential dangers to children. So do forks. The reason forks do not grab as many headlines is two-fold. First, all adults understand forks and ridicule those who use them to self-inflict injury. Second, parents, at least responsible parents, do not allow their children unsupervised ...
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• Privacy & Social Media: Poked & Pwned (bis)

  
  Slaw — Authority: 574
  I posted earlier this week (see Privacy, Social Media, Targeting and Marketing: Poked and Pwnd ) about recent updates on privacy practices online. Noted was Facebook’s announcement that users would be asked to update their settings to allow better and easier controls for users over their posted information. ...
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• Is a Printed Document Defective in Law?

  
  Slaw — Authority: 574
  Dominic Jaar has an interesting article in the droit-inc blog (en français) suggesting that a printed document may have less legal impact than the electronic original, because the printout does not reproduce all the information in the original, notably not the metadata. And these days, pretty well all documents ...
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• Britain Considers Changes to Deter ‘Libel Tourism’

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 688
  Embarrassed by Londons reputation as a libel mecca that draws litigation from purportedly aggrieved claimants from around the world, British lawmakers appear poised to make changes to the 19th-century libel laws. One member of the House of Lords is drafting a bill that could especially deter forum shopping. It would ...
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