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Patent Office Exploring Keeping Patents Secret If They’re ‘Economically Significant’
We’re told, repeatedly, by some patent system supporters that the whole point of the patent system is really about “disclosure.” Of course, this is a myth for a variety of reasons. The biggest, of course, is that in many industries patents are both … Continue reading
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Wikileaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing Police; Told It Was Because He Was ‘A Dick’
There’s a guy in NY, Clark Stoekley, who apparently owns a white panel van that he’s painted with the Wikileaks logo to raise awareness of the plight of Bradley Manning (though he has no other connection to Manning or Wikileaks). There’s a lot more in… Continue reading
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Prolific DVD Bootlegger Is 92 Year-Old WWII Veteran
The MPAA often loves to talk about just how evil DVD bootleggers are. They’re the ones that the MPAA most frequently uses to draw a “connection” between “piracy” and “organized crime.” Because of DVD bootleggers, we even got a ridiculous, 4th Amendme… Continue reading
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Law Enforcement Already Has A Way To Share ‘Cybersecurity’ Info With Companies; Why Do We Need CISPA?
The whole CISPA situation keeps looking more and more questionable. For months, we’ve been raising the question of why we needed such a law in the first place, because the evidence of any online threat that required such a law seemed hyperbolic at bes… Continue reading
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EU Liberals To Vote Against ACTA; Conservatives Want To ‘Fix’ It
We reported last week that the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament had decided to vote against the ratification of ACTA; now the Liberals and Democrats are following suit:
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Did CISPA Actually Get Better Before Passing? Not Really
Yesterday, after I asserted that CISPA had gotten much worse before it was passed in a rushed vote, I heard from several people (even those in the anti-CISPA camp) who took the opposite position. They feel that, while CISPA is still a highly problemati… Continue reading
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ISPs Ask Judge To Reconsider Order Allowing Copyright Trolling To Move Forward
There have been a bunch of rulings in a variety of district courts around the country rejecting a variety of ways in which copyright trolling operations have been seeking to use the judicial system as a part of their business model — not to actually t… Continue reading
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Dan Bull Talks About Trying To Reach The Charts While Giving Away His Music
Earlier this week, we wrote about Dan Bull’s new song and new experiment: could he release a track via The Pirate Bay for free… and still get it onto the music charts? We talked to Dan to see how the process has been so far, and discussed a few othe… Continue reading
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Portuguese Man Convicted On Criminal Charges For Sharing Three Songs
Nelson Cruz points us to the latest news of totally ridiculous and disproportionate punishments for file sharing. A young man in Portugal has been convicted on criminal charges for sharing 3 songs. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail, but the jail se… Continue reading
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Hacking Society: It’s Time To Measure The Unmeasurable
I was lucky enough to attend a small gathering of great thinkers put together by Union Square Ventures earlier this week for an event they called Hacking Society — which was designed to be a one day open conversation on the economics and power of netw… Continue reading
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