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The Charles Carreon saga continues, though it seems to be drawing to a close, with just some monetary issues to clear up. When we last left Carreon, he’d just been served by lawyer Cathy Gellis, who tracked him down in court, after he went through all… Continue reading
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To Avoid Controversy, ‘Realtime’ Microblogging In China Now Delayed By 7 Days
Despite increasing competition around the world, China remains the leader when it comes to finding ways to censor the online world. A few months ago, the site Tech in Asia listed no less than eight ways in which users of Sina Weibo, China’s hugely-pop… Continue reading
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Copyfraud: Copyright Claims On CDs Say It’s Infringement To Loan Your CD To A Friend
We’ve talked a lot about the concept of “copyfraud,” the increasingly common activity of copyright holders claiming more rights than copyright allows. It happens all the time, but sometimes it’s really egregious. Wired is reporting on how the super p… Continue reading
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…And FISA Is Renewed, With All Its Problems Still Intact
After three key amendments that would have brought some oversight to the NSA’s ongoing spying program were rejected last night, and the final such amendment was rejected this morning, there was little doubt that the Senate would move ahead with renewin… Continue reading
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Senate Rejects Final FISA Amendment, Lets Spying Program Stay Shrouded In Secrecy
Yesterday, we covered the rushed last-minute debate over the FISA Amendments Act, after which three critical amendments that would have brought some accountability to the NSA’s spying program were all struck down. This morning, the fourth and final suc… Continue reading
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LEAKED: White House’s Bogus Talking Points On Why Senate Should Trample The 4th Amendment
Want to know the White House’s key propaganda lines for refusing to allow proper oversight into how the NSA is spying on us all? Well, sit back and read on, because the White House’s “talking points” on why the Senate should reject four key amendments… Continue reading
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Is Peru Going To Get Its Own SOPA?
It never stops. What the entertainment industry fails to get in one place, it just looks to get implemented in the law somewhere else, so that it can point to that as an “example” for others to follow — and then often use questionable “free trade agr… Continue reading
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Proposed Changes To UK Copyright Law Sensible But Require Gov’t Request If You Want To Circumvent DRM
Techdirt has been covering the UK’s long-running saga of attempted copyright reform for some years. Most recently, we wondered whether even the Hargreaves Review’s moderate suggestions would survive in the face of the usual frenzied lobbying from the … Continue reading
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European Union’s Data Retention Law Could Breach Citizens’ Fundamental Rights
Back in April 2011, we wrote about the Czech Constitutional Court ruling that the country’s data retention plans were illegal. As we noted then, many other EU countries had also run into similar problems trying to implement the European Data Retention… Continue reading
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Some people don’t think they have an accent when they talk, but even Mid-westerners have a few discernible pronunciations that can give them away. But beyond accents, there are also speaking quirks like slang and syntax and other weird sounds that peop… Continue reading
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