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Justin Bieber: Senator Klobuchar Should Be Locked Up For Felony Streaming Bill

Earlier today we wrote about how Justin Bieber’s lawyers were threatening the folks behind the FreeBieber advocacy project, which highlights some of the problems with Senator Amy Klobuchar’s dangerous and ill-thought out bill to make streaming video a … Continue reading

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BSA Wants To Export Insane Statutory Damages For Copyright Infringement To Other Countries

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has a long history of being on the wrong side of history. It does little to actually help the software business, but instead, it tries to be the RIAA of the software business by looking to promote innovation-destro… Continue reading

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The Non-Existent ‘Cyber War’ Is Nothing More Than A Push For More Government Control

Reason’s recent post, “Cyber War: Still Not a Thing,” addresses the claims of various politicians that America is under constant attack from hackers and other cyber criminals. While various DDoS attacks on prominent government websites would seem to in… Continue reading

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Guava Presents Java Throwable Stack Trace as Single String

Tip #5 of my blog post Ten Tips for Using Java Stack Traces demonstrates two example of using Java code to extract a Throwable’s (implying Error or Exception) stack trace into a single String representation using either PrintWriter or PrintStream. Thes… Continue reading

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Rep. Blackburn, Co-Sponsor Of E-PARASITE, Explains Why Regulating The Internet Is Terrible

This one is really quite incredible. Among the sponsors of the absolutely dreadful E-PARASITE Act, which imposes massive regulations across the entire internet sector, is Rep. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. What’s odd is that Rep. Blackburn, just a… Continue reading

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Another Report Shows Redlight Cameras Increasing Accidents

weneedhelp points us to yet another report suggesting that red light cameras quite frequently appear to increase the number of car accidents, even as they’re pitched to the public as a way to decrease accidents. In this case, police data from Philly s… Continue reading

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Justin Bieber Sends Cease & Desist To FreeBieber Campaign

Apparently Justin Bieber has no interest in being kept out of jail. You may recall that the Fight for the Future folks recently started a satirical campaign against the felony streaming bill (S.978 in the Senate, and a part of the SOPA bill in the Hou… Continue reading

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How Copyright Infringement Turned Vampires Into Big Business

If you’ve spent any time in the comment threads here at Techdirt, you’ve probably run into someone decrying derivative works as uncreative and useless, arguing that art should be created in a vacuum, preferably a vacuum composed of extensive copyright … Continue reading

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Will Anti-Free Trade Protectionist Agreements Be Bad For US Citizens Too?

As we’ve noted, the US has been using multilateral and bilateral negotiations conducted in secret as a way to craft some very one-sided trade treaties. They seem to offer pretty raw deals to the other nations involved – and correspondingly great… Continue reading

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