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Terabytes of legit data headed for deletion as feds keep MegaUpload from paying bills

Posted January 30, 2012 - 1:34 pm

The FBI raided MegaUpload's servers, copied data for evidence and now says it has no further right to access the data, essentially handing it back to MegaUpload. But MU's funds are frozen so it can't pay its hosting bills, even as it faces suits from users who lost legitimate data.
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Hollywood to politicians: When we buy you, stay bought

Posted January 24, 2012 - 11:07 am

When does 'politics as usual' cross into bribery? Chris Dodd and the Motion Picture Association of America might find out.
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Why argue over SOPA, PIPA if they wouldn't do anything to stop content piracy anyway?

Posted January 18, 2012 - 12:19 pm

The SOPA and PIPA bills introduced in Congress are advertised as ways to stop illegal distribution of copyrighted content overseas, but all they do is make foreign sites harder for Americans to reach. Even their worst punishments won't stop a single foreign download.
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Death of SOPA may be only big victory for individual rights online in 2012

Posted January 16, 2012 - 1:38 pm

SOPA's assumption of guilt provisions were outrageously unconstitutional, but didn't emerge from a vacuum. In 2012 it seems as if cops, marketers, social networkers, service providers or anyone else with a use for private data claims the right to take it, or just the ability.
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Sweden's newest church sanctifies copy, paste, post as antidote to censorship

Posted January 6, 2012 - 10:33 am

Information is not free, it is imprisoned by copyright 'ownership.' The holiest mission of humans on Earth, according to Sweden's newest officially recognized religion, is to copy files and set them free by distributing copies all over the world. 'Uh, no," sayeth the RIAA.
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Legalizing Linux DVD Playback: Why Bother?

Posted April 26, 2010 - 10:29 am

Faced with the questionable ethics of DeCSS--itself a response to the unquestioned greed of Hollywood--users may soon opt for a new option that could send some Linux software vendors serious revenue.
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BSA and MPAA Presidents Call the Digital Millennium Copyright Act A Crucial Step in Bringing Forth the Information Revolution

Posted November 12, 2008 - 3:12 pm

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), enacted ten years ago in October 1998, has been â€œa stunning success,â€ according to the leaders of the global software and motion picture industries.
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BSA and MPAA Presidents Call the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Posted November 12, 2008 - 2:40 pm

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), enacted ten years ago in October 1998, has been â€œa stunning success,â€ according to the leaders of the global software and motion picture industries.
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MPAA, RealNetworks sue each other over DVD copier

Posted September 30, 2008 - 7:25 pm

RealNetworks and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have filed dueling lawsuits against each other over a product that allows people to copy DVDs.
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