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Comcast: We Won’t Terminate Your Account Under Six Strikes; We’ll Just Block Every Single Website
The various ways in which the big ISPs would implement their version of the “six strikes” Copyright Alert System had mostly been leaked over the past few months, but there had been nothing coming out of Comcast. AT&T planned to block “frequently… Continue reading
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Maryland Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Bar Schools From Claiming Copyright On Student & Faculty Work
We recently wrote about how the school district in Prince George County, Maryland, was looking at adopting a policy whereby the school would claim all copyrights on created works by students and teachers. For obvious reasons, this got many people upse… Continue reading
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Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement
It seems that, once again, the UK is going censorship crazy and not realizing how that only attacts more attention to that which they’re trying to censor. This time, it involves some photos that were posted online of one Jon Venables, who at the age o… Continue reading
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State Audit Finds More Than Half Of Minnesota’s 11,000 Law Enforcement Users Misused Driver Data
It’s been proven before by various government agencies and it still holds true: if you give someone more access than oversight when it comes to collected personal information, you can’t be surprised when this tool gets abused.
The latest abuse of a go… Continue reading
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SHIELD Act Targeting Patent Trolls Re-Introduced; It’s A Step In The Right Direction, But Just A Small One
As expected, the SHIELD Act, which would allow those sued by patent trolls over bogus patents to seek legal fees, has been reintroduced in Congress. As I said when the bill was originally introduced, I think it’s a good thing, though just a very, very… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Are You Smarter Than A Dolphin?
We may think we’re pretty smart, but animals like dolphins are pretty smart too. For over 30 years, scientists have been trying to determine how smart dolphins really are. Bottlenose dolphins have a brain-to-body-weight ratio that is only second to hum… Continue reading
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Ridiculous: Trademark Board Lets Yankees Control ‘Evil Empire’ Despite It Being An Insult Used By Another Team
Two years ago, we wrote about a ridiculous situation in which the NY Yankees (disclosure: I’m a lifelong Yankees fan) were opposing a trademark application by a small company who sought to trademark “Baseball’s Evil Empire” for the sake of selling merc… Continue reading
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North Korean Propaganda: Now With More Elder Scrolls!
Well, it's been a couple of days, so I guess it's time to update you on the latest version of North Korean propaganda that tries to impress our sense of humor. You should recall that the reclusive nation released a bizarre video about the comin… Continue reading
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A Merger Challenge Not Worth Rating: The DOJ’s Misguided Suit Against A Paltry Software Merger
The following is a guest post from David Balto, former Federal Trade Commission Policy Director. Mr. Balto represented SunGard Data Systems in the US v. SunGard case described in this post.
Antitrust merger enforcement is a unique area of the law. I… Continue reading
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The Worst Article You Might Ever Read About ‘Cybersecurity’
There has been a lot of discussion lately about “cybersecurity” “cyberwar” “cyberattacks” and all sorts of related subjects which really really (really!) could do without the outdated and undeniably lame “cyber-” prefix. This is, in large part, due to… Continue reading
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