Tag: copyright
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Internet Archive unleashes 1PB of data through BitTorrent
from computerworld.com: The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The Internet Archive said it is offering 1.5 million torrents including live music concerts, the Prelinger…
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#Newspurge: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
Econocrash: Stocks waver; signs on the economy hard to read* Joseph Stiglitz: ‘This Deficit Fetishism Is Killing Our Economy’* Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties: “You F*cking Americans. Who Are You To Tell Us, The Rest Of The World That We’re Not Going To Deal With Iranians?”* Video: The Truth about TARP*…
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New World Next Week: Episode118 – Six Strikes, Sex Tracks, Church Attacks
Story #1: ISP ‘Six Strikes’ To Begin This Weekend // Story #2: New Zealand Sex Offenders To Be Tracked By Satellite // Story #3: Tax-Exempt Churches Plan To Engage In Illegal Electioneering
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New Zealand Judge Rules Kim DotCom Warrants Invalid
High Court judge finds search warrants were too general and rules the data in cloned drives should not have been released to the FBI.
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Media/Memes: Twilight Time
Can You Answer 25 Difficult Questions The Mainstream Media Refuses To?* House Republicans Reject FCC Rule to Force TV Stations to Publish Who Paid for Political Ads* Video: The arrogance and failure of news media* Boy Has Seizure Over Gory Scene in Prometheus* Gory Prometheus Scene Gives Young Boy A Seizure* Blade Runner: 30 Years…
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#InfoGraphic: Hypocrisy In Hollywood
As we’ve previously noted: Hollywood is making the most money from the technologies it claimed would kill its profits // Hollywood is itself one of the biggest intellectual property infringers // Hollywood apparently encouraged people to use file-sharing software for pirating copyrighted material
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#NewWorldNextWeek: SOPA Backout, SCOTUS Copywrong, Abuse Archives
SOPA Is Back As Websites Go Black // Update: Five Key Senators Abandon Online Piracy Bills Amid Web Protests // SCOTUS Says Congress May ‘Re-Copyright’ Public Domain Works // Lawyer Challenges Catholics to Open Secret Archives for Abuse Truth
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SCOTUS Says Congress May ‘Re-Copyright’ Public Domain Works
from threat level: Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that, just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory…
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Media/Memes: Keep Ya Head Up
2011 VMA’s a celebration of #Illuminati music industry? // Video: Remembering Tupac Shakur 15yrs later // No Beatles for you! EU adds 20yrs to music copyrights // Now we can all use the FBI anti-piracy warning! // Netflix spends $110K lobbing Congress in 2Q // 1 million customers exit after Netflix increases price
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DHS/ICE Start Another Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
US authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites such as megavideo.com and veoh.com.
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White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown
The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
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DHS Seizes More Domains; This Time for Linking to Copyrighted Material
Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now authorized to rewrite and enforce copyright infringement laws.
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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Government Seizes Domains Alleged to Infringe Copyright
The U.S. government has shut down several sites apparently suspected of either linking to or providing access to copyrighted materials.
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US Declares iPhone ‘Jailbreaking’ Legal Over Apple Objections
Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone, declaring Monday there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.”