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Here We Go Again: Latest Draft Of White House Cybersecurity ‘Executive Order’ Is Leaked
Back in September, we posted a leaked version of a draft for a cybersecurity executive order that the White House had been passing around, mainly to try to force Congress into passing a cybersecurity law. With the last ditch attempt by Senator Harry R… Continue reading
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Tor Exit Node Operator Charged With Distributing Child Porn
Not this again. Last year, we wrote about how Austrian police had seized computers from a tor exit node, showing little comprehension of how tor worked, and why the operator of the node was not responsible for the content accessed. We wondered how di… Continue reading
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Psy Elects Not To Go Legal Over Gangnam Style Restaurant
Weeks ago, Mike explored the cultural blitz surrounding the song/video Gangam Style and its creator, Korean pop sensation Psy. One of the themes of the article was how Psy's seeming permisiveness for the internet community's repurposing of his … Continue reading
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Recording Industry Could Catch More Flies With Honey, But Keeps Betting On Vinegar
As Mike covered earlier, Ofcom, the UK's media regulator, has just released a new report on online piracy containing information it has been gathering for the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) ahead of the Digital Economy Act's eventual rollou… Continue reading
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Universal Studios Sues Over Porn Parody Of ’50 Shades Of Grey’; Ignoring 50 Shade’s Own History As Fan Fiction
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of porn parody movies created. Porn studios have realized that it’s an effective way to differentiate themselves from “everyday porn.” While some have wondered about the legality of these things, very few h… Continue reading
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How The Video Game Industry Was Launched 40 Years Ago… Thanks To Infringement
Chris Stokel-Walker, over at Buzzfeed, has an absolutely fantastic feature article all about the creation of the video game Pong by Atari. 40 years ago, this week, Atari delivered the first 12 Pong machines (outside of a prototype at a local bar that … Continue reading
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Kevin Durant Sued Over ‘Durantula’ Trademark Despite Not Using It
As the great expanse of permission culture marches on, a growing trend is professional athletes getting in on the game. Recall that Tim Tebow recently took a break from being a crappy quarterback to trademark the phrase (not the action) known as “Tebow… Continue reading
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UK Recording Industry Doesn’t Want Google To Reduce Piracy Until It Reduces Piracy
Techdirt has written before about the self-destructive vindictiveness of the copyright industries, which would rather die in a futile attempt to stamp out piracy than embrace new ways of making money that will help to reduce piracy anyway. Here’s anot… Continue reading
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NSA Releases Heavily Redacted Talking Points: Say It’s Hard To Watch Public Debate On Its Efforts
After receiving a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Jason Smathers, via Muckrock, the NSA has released a series of “talking points.” What’s incredible is that the talking points themselves are heavily redacted. Considering they’re all ab… Continue reading
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Cambridge Proposes New Centre To Study Ways Technology May Make Humans Extinct
As the march of technology progresses, folks are coming up with all kinds of interesting questions regarding the machines we use every day. I wrote a while back about a one researcher questioning whether or not robots deserve rights, for instance. On t… Continue reading
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