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Which ISPs Are Spying on You?
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/isp_...
The few souls that attempt to read and understand website privacy policies know they are almost universally unintelligible and shot through with clever loopholes. But one of the most important policies to know is your internet service provider's -- the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to porn.
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Finnish Court Rejects DRM
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132288-page,1/article.html
Case dismissal challenges European copyright law banning code that breaks DVD copy-protection. A Finnish court ruling is prompting questions over the wording of a European copyright directive that prohibits publishing information that could enable illegal DVD copying.
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YouTube Sued Again - Fatal Car Crashes are Copyrighted?
http://mashable.com/2007/05/25/youtube-car-crash/
The latest YouTube lawsuit comes from an unlikely source: the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. They’re suing several video sites besides YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage at the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza. The footage depicts a severe car crash, in which the 52-year old driver was killed. (Editor’s note: you may have seen it - it’s the one where the car travels at extremely high speed into the divider between toll booths and bursts into flames. Still image below b
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Web Entrepreneur vs. DMCA Scammer
http://www.tylercruz.com/beware-of-dmca-scammer/
An article retelling the events when a DMCA Scammer attempts to cease the domain Starcraft2.net from an experienced web entrepeneur and what entails. The article wants to educate and warn the public about such scammers.
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RIAA’s IP Gathering Techniques About to be Busted
http://torrentfreak.com/riaas-ip-gathering-techniques-about-...
RIAA’s shoddy data gathering techniques are unlawful and shouldn’t be used as legal evidence. This is what a Dutch court concluded based on the expert witness statement from Dr Johan Pouwelse, who is about to testify in the UMG v. Lindor case in the US.
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Poor students = helpless, easy targets for RIAA's college piracy crackdown
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_hi_te/music_pirate...
"Barg's parents paid the $3,000 settlement. Without their help, "I don't know what I would have done. I'm only 20 years old," she said."
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The Cutest Video On Installing Ubuntu Linux
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/th...
Blogger and librarian Jessamyn West got several PCs as donations, but they didn't have an operating system. So she installed Ubuntu Linux, and videotaped the process.
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Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131745/article.html
The failed shareholder proposal would have stopped Google from engaging in self-censorship. A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship.
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Share a Single Song on BitTorrent, eDonkey, Get Fined $400
http://torrentfreak.com/share-a-single-song-on-bittorrent-ed...
In March we reported on an anti-piracy outfit and its legal partners taking action against UK file-sharers, having already done so against thousands in Germany. Now, thousands of Italian file-sharers have been issued with demands totaling over one million euros. The cost of sharing a single song in Italy? A cool 300 Euros.
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YouTube's New Inline Ads: Screenshots
http://newteevee.com/2007/05/11/youtubes-new-inline-ads-scre...
YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of its player as a video is playing. If a user clicks on the text, a video ad expands and appears layered on top of the player. See what it looks like here
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