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• Hollywoods antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Hollywoods new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBSs Sixty Minutes . Viewers expecting another of the shows self-described "hard-hitting investigative reports" watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a ...
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• Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  "Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009 . Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to make one of these copies, rendering the whole scheme pretty ...
  21 hours ago

• Pirates get a taste of Microsoft COFEE

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Microsofts Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor ( COFEE ) has made it into the hands of pirates, and their virtual ships are distributing it quickly for everyone to get a taste. The COFEE application uses common digital forensics tools to help law enforcement officials at the scene of a crime gather volatile ...
  23 hours ago

• Glenn Beck loses domain dispute, still ends up with domain

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Talk show host and one-man media empire Glenn Beck has lost his bid to shut down theglennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com domain name. Weve covered the strange circumstances of the case before : a Gilbert Gottfried comedy routine (NSFW) about Bob Saget raping and murdering a teenaged girl made its way to ...
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• Our Newest Twitter Account

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 110
  A quick bit of housekeeping news: We now have two official Twitter accounts for those of you looking for tweets about all things tech policy. Along with @TechPolicy where I have been tweeting since early 2008, you can also follow @PolicyEvents for news and information about tech/policy-related conferences. Its ...
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• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet provisions" in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didnt take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the popular ...
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• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the “Internet provisions” in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn’t take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the ...
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• Week in tech: sexy bootlegged Star Trek slumber party edition

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Tales of Star Trek piracy and sexy slumber party pics topped the weeks tech and science stories. Heres what was hot over the past seven days. Two high school student athletes got in hot water after pictures from a slumber party posted on MySpace—with privacy controls, no less—ended up on the principals desk. ...
  3 days ago

• European Union Takes Its Own Network Neutrality Stance

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  While the U.S. takes steps to make so-called Network Neutrality principles mandatory under official rules, the European Union moved forward this week with its own set of internet access requirements. Under the proposed EU rules, “national telecoms authorities will have the powers to set minimum quality levels for ...
  3 days ago

• If anonymity is no longer needed, let’s ditch the witness protection program…

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  I asked a question of the Social Media: Engage panel at Internet Summit ‘09 about 30 minutes ago and since that moment I’ve been thinking about online anonymity. People seem to hate it. When I blogged about the upside and relevance of anonymous comments as they relate to news stories, some people balked. ...
  3 days ago

• EU adopts "Internet freedom" provision on Internet cut-offs

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  For weeks, the major governing institutions of the European Union have been locked in a battle over three-strikes laws, Internet disconnections, and the appropriate role of judges in the process. Just after midnight last night, the deadlock was broken and all parties agreed to a new "Internet freedom provision" that ...
  4 days ago

• Judge hits Beatles MP3 seller with restraining order

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  The wheels of justice dont always turn slowly. Only two days after music label EMI asked a federal judge to stop BlueBeat.com from selling The Beatles newly remastered albums online at a quarter a track, the judge has agreed—and suggests that hes just as confused about what BlueBeat is doing as everyone else is. ...
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• Judge hits Beatles MP3 seller with restraining order

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  The wheels of justice don’t always turn slowly. Only two days after music label EMI asked a federal judge to stop BlueBeat.com from selling The Beatles’ newly remastered albums online at a quarter a track, the judge has agreed—and suggests that he’s just as confused about what BlueBeat is doing as everyone ...
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• South Africa to Cancel its A400M Order

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 567
  Scratch one flag… (click to view full) In April 2005, South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin expected the cost of the SAAF’s 8 planned Airbus A400M medium-heavy military transport aircraft to be EUR 830 million. That converted to R 6.5 billion at those exchange rates, or about $177.75 million ...
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• Bill could kill ISP safe harbor in cases of financial fraud

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  In the wake of the collapse of many a 401k and a Ponzi scheme or three, its no surprise that a bill called the Investor Protection Act of 2009 has attracted significant support in Congress. In 60 sections over 113 pages, the Act clarifies existing legislation and provides new oversight powers to the Securities ...
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• Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  When the news broke earlier this week that the so-famous-youve-never-heard-of-it BlueBeat.com was both streaming and selling The Beatles remasters —and for 25¢ a track—we speculated that an entertainingly weird legal theory was at the root of this behavior. We just had no idea how weird it was.
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• Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  When the news broke earlier this week that the so-famous-you’ve-never-heard-of-it BlueBeat.com was both streaming and selling The Beatles remasters —and for 25¢ a track—we speculated that an entertainingly weird legal theory was at the root of this behavior. We just had no idea how weird it was. Go here to ...
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• Does the RIAA let defaulters off the hook?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea. When we last looked into this issue just over a month ago, we found something surprising: the only two Americans who took their file-sharing lawsuits all ...
  5 days ago

• Does the RIAA let defaulters off the hook?

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea. When we last looked into this issue just over a month ago, we found something surprising: the only two Americans who took their file-sharing lawsuits all ...
  5 days ago

• Record labels keep blaming P2P, but its a hard sell

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales , musics international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. "The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales," IFPI asserts . "This is why spending on recorded ...
  5 days ago

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