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Three Key EU Parliament Committees Vote ‘Just Say No’ To ACTA
While some have believed that ACTA is already dead in Europe, there are still actual votes to be held, and there have been significant concerns that political trickery might lead to ACTA actually being approved. The first three key votes (from three s… Continue reading
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Latest Humble Bundle Of Pay-What-You-Want Indie Games Raises $1-Million In Five Hours
We’ve been following the Humble Bundle for a while, both because it’s an interesting business model experiment and because the games are awesome. For the uninitiated: the Humble Bundle is a pay-what-you-want package of cross-platform, DRM-free indie ga… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: That’s Edutainment!
Some folks are out to actively dismantle (or disrupt) the existing education system, and the revolution in public education has only just started. Educational software is getting a lot of buzz for being able to motivate students and more accurately tra… Continue reading
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Judge Delivers Thorough And Complete Smackdown Of Oracle’s Copyright Claims
Well, well. A few weeks ago, the jury in the Google/Oracle lawsuit ruled that Google infringed on a very small amount of Java API, but as we noted it was still an open question (and one for the judge to rule on) whether or not APIs were even eligible … Continue reading
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Rolling Stone Highlights FBI’s Fascination With Staging Its Own Terrorist Plots… While Ignoring Real Threats
We’ve been covering for a while now how the FBI keep setting up and stopping its own terrorist plots in order to make headlines. A few weeks ago, the NY Times wrote about this and now Rolling Stone has its own entry on the subject, which goes one ste… Continue reading
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Lodsys Continues Demanding Cut Of Smartphone Apps; Developers Hit Back In Court
The story of Lodsys is, by now, quite an infamous one in smartphone app development circles. The “company” (and I use that term loosely) owns a few patents, which it basically claims covers any iPhone app that involves in-app payments:
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TV Network Exec Argues That Anything That Causes Cable Subscribers To Cut The Cord Is Illegal
Okay, let’s start this out right by noting that the headline is only slight hyperbole. We’ve already talked about the TV networks suing Aereo for letting people connect, via the internet, to a TV antenna that picks up over-the-air (i.e., free) TV prog… Continue reading
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French Film Exec Insists That Anti-Piracy Efforts Made Sure No French Films Were Downloaded For 7 Months
We’ve certainly seen the entertainment industry continually try to pretend that Hadopi’s clear failure is a success story. However, sometimes it seems to go from just massaging the numbers into outright denial. That seems to be the case with Nicolas … Continue reading
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Chamber Of Commerce Lies Again: Attributes Millions Of Jobs To IP Laws Based On Flimsy Correlation
Remember how we were just talking about Senator Chris Coons, and the fact that maybe (just maybe) he was realizing that pushing for ridiculously over-aggressive “anti-piracy” laws without understanding the details was a bad idea? Yeah, apparently that… Continue reading
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Who Needs CISPA? White House Unveils Voluntary Data Sharing Plan To Fight Botnets
As the fight over CISPA continues (apparently with some concerns that the existing bill is effectively dead in the water), the White House announced a new voluntary program for companies to share info about botnets in order to stop them. This raises t… Continue reading
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