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Art And Copyright In The Age Of Compulsive Looking

We wrote recently about how the rise of mobile phones with built-in cameras has led to an irresistible urge to record our experiences everywhere with a digital picture. But what happens when those experiences include works of art, which may still be … Continue reading

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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK’s ‘Snooper’s Charter’

A month ago, we wrote about how the UK’s infamous “Snooper’s Charter” had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister. The Guardian now reveals that top Internet companies may have played a key role in this decision:

The five bigges… Continue reading

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New York Continues Its Trademark Bullying Ways: Threatens Coffee Shop With Bogus Threats

I recall, a few years ago, filmmaker Kevin Smith talking about how the state of NY demanded money because a background player (I think a dancer) in Clerks II was shown wearing an “I ♥ NJ” t-shirt, and NY, somewhat infamously, holds the trademark… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: The American Bacon Obsession

Americans reportedly eat, on average, more than 18 pounds of bacon each year. This unhealthy obsession with bacon apparently began in the 1990s when the high-protein, high-fat, low-carb Atkins Diet started gaining popularity. Now there are tons of baco… Continue reading

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Florida ‘Abbott And Costello’ Prenda Case Ends Not With A Bang, But A Whimper

As expected, it looks like Prenda, along with John Steele and Paul Duffy, have a tiny bit of good news as the first case which suggested they were committing fraud on the court, in the courtroom of Judge Mary Scriven, has been closed without any furthe… Continue reading

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Lawsuit Over Who Gets Starbucks Tips

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I imagine Mr. Pink doesn’t tip at Starbucks. Hell, I don’t “tip” at Starbucks. Occasionally, I don’t feel like having 30 cents clanging around in my pocket all day, so I throw it in the tip jar. But th… Continue reading

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Court Orders Google To Comply With National Security Letters, But Suggests It Might Want To Ask Again

You may recall that back in April it was revealed that Google was fighting back against complying with a series of National Security Letters (NSLs), the notorious tool of law enforcement to snoop on people secretly, which has been abused widely. Googl… Continue reading

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Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their Surveillance

One of the key flaws with the data retention schemes being proposed by the UK and elsewhere, supposedly to catch terrorists and serious criminals, is that they won’t work. It is trivially easy to avoid surveillance by using encrypted connections, for… Continue reading

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Prenda’s Former Porn Client Comes Forward About His Fears Of Working With Prenda

Claire Suddath, writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, has written up a pretty comprehensive article about John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Prenda Law. If, for some reason, you haven’t been following this story through all the blog posts, Suddath’s articl… Continue reading

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Bradley Manning Accused Of Aiding [Classified Enemy]

Okay, so in Orwell’s 1984, the powers that be may have switched who the “enemy” was arbitrarily and then rewritten history to argue we were always at war with Eurasia or Eastasia. But, at least there was a defined enemy. In the court martial case aga… Continue reading

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