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Courts quash copyright trolls; recognize IP address is not a person

Posted May 16, 2012 - 2:35 pm

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a very little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous
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Study: Movie studios can fix their own box-office losses to piracy without SOPA

Posted February 10, 2012 - 2:37 pm

Box office losses in U.S. are negligible and would be overseas if movie studios were quicker about shipping out copies of new movies. Like the music industry, movie execs wanted new laws that reduce the rights of others when they had the tools to fix the problem themselves.
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Could hypocrisy at RIAA, DHS derail draconian rules against free downloads?

Posted December 19, 2011 - 5:33 pm

YouHaveDownloaded crawls BitTorrent sites, recording IP addresses of those downloading files and the files they're downloading. It turns out, if the record is correct, that two of the most energetic persecutors of downloaders are illegal downloaders themselves.
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R.I.P Net Neutrality?

Posted April 6, 2010 - 11:38 pm

Tomorrow when I step out of the Metro station tomorrow at L'Enfant Plaza, I am wondering if I should lay a black wreath on the steps of the FCC Building.
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