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German Publishers File Criminal Complaint Against Two News Sites For Mentioning Name Of Unauthorized Ebook Site

We know that some legacy players who rely too heavily on copyright law seem to react negatively to any discussion of unauthorized distribution of files, but a group of German book publishers have apparently taken this to the next level. As highlighted … Continue reading

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Police Admit That NZ Spy Agency Illegally Spied On Kim Dotcom, But Aren’t Going To Do Anything About It

You may recall that it came out last year that the New Zealand equivalent of the NSA, the GCSB, illegally spied on Kim Dotcom (oh, and dozens of others), possibly with the help of the NSA, despite not being allowed to spy on those in New Zealand. An i… Continue reading

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Best Response To A Copyright Threat Ever? Lawyers Explain Why ABA Is Full Of S**t In Claiming Copyright On Routing Numbers

In our time we’ve seen some pretty epic responses to bogus legal threats, but it appears we have a new contender for the throne. As a whole bunch of lawyers suddenly emailed me this morning, it appears there’s been a followup to our earlier story on th… Continue reading

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Once Again, Will People Say That Reporters Revealing Details Of US Intelligence On Syria Be Called Criminals?

We’ve pointed out many times now how the old guard media seems to hate the new guard, in part because they’re not getting their stories the “old fashioned way” — which is buddying up to government officials and having them as “sources” where the repor… Continue reading

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Finnish Court OKs Censorship Of Anti-Censorship Site

Government entities are irony-proof, especially those most humorless of government entities — the censors. Case in point: the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court has decided that the Finnish police did nothing wrong when it added an anti-censorship … Continue reading

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Court Says You Can Be Liable For Merely Sending A Text Message To Someone Who’s Driving

We’ve covered stories stemming from texting and driving issues for quite a while here at Techdirt, typically taking the position that all the clamoring for new laws is needless grandstanding when current laws on the books could be applied readily. Tha… Continue reading

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Court Says Feds Don’t Have To Reveal Secret Evidence It Gathered Against ‘Terror’ Suspect Using FISA

Adel Daoud is an American teen who was arrested last year in one of the FBI’s many infamous home grown plots, in which FBI agents entice people into claiming they want to take part in a terror plot, plan the whole thing, give the person a fake bomb, an… Continue reading

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Mayor Bloomberg Loves Security Cameras Everywhere… Until His Police Are Ordered To Wear Them

Lawyers representing the city of New York have filed a request for a stay of Judge Scheindlin’s decision and court order pending appeal. Scheindlin found components of the NYPD’s stop and frisk unconstitutional in her decision and ordered several reme… Continue reading

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Ex-Prenda Lawyer Wonders If Team Prenda Believes Their Own Lies After Laughable Hearing

Earlier this week, there was yet another hearing dealing with one of the many courts investigating the actions of Team Prenda. This was in the Navasca case up in San Francisco, where some sanctions have already been issued, and more may await. Judge Ed… Continue reading

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Angular JS – Making Directives self-contained in our ASP.NET MVC Twitter App

This article is sixth in the series, I strongly recommend you go through the previous five if you are new to AngularJS:

Part 1 – Hello AngularJS – Building a Tweet Reader

Part 2 – Using AngularJS Modules and Services Feature in an ASP.NET MVC application

Part 3 – AngularJS – Post data using the $resource Service in an ASP.NET MVC app

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