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Copy-control Senator Sleeps While Fair-use Rights Burn Copy-control Senator Sleeps While Fair-use Rights Burn
Copy-control Senator Sleeps While Fair-use Rights Burn- "Picture a future where distributing Linux is a crime punishable by a hefty fine and a prison sentence. If that sounds ridiculous, then you haven't run into the Sec ...
Anti-Piracy Bill Finally Sees Senate Anti-Piracy Bill Finally Sees Senate
Anti-Piracy Bill Finally Sees Senate- "A controversial bill calling for copyright-protection technology in all 'digital media products' is introduced in the Senate." By John Borland. [CNet] ...
Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill Braws Fire Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill Braws Fire
Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill Braws Fire- "Government and industry leaders say lawmakers would in effect decide the tech industry's 'winners and losers' if proposed government controls on digital media devices become reality ...
D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash
D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash- "The media industry is painting tech executives as uncooperative and uncommitted to the cause of copy protection, a charge that has drawn protests--and now action--from device m ...
SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition
SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition- "Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the SSSCA have been postponed due to mounting opposition, particularly from those in the tech community." News and reader discussi ...
Red Hat puts out Legislation Alert on the SSSCA Red Hat puts out Legislation Alert on the SSSCA
Red Hat puts out Legislation Alert on the SSSCA- "Red Hat has announced a legislation alert for the SSSCA. They are collecting comments to hand to lawmakers." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened
SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened- News and reader comments about Senate Commerce Committee hearing. [Slashdot] ...
SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday
SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday- "Only temporarily tripped up by Sept. 11th (and of course journalists and webmasters calling his office), Fritz Hollings is starting hearings on embedding copy protection in all digi ...
Senate Soliciting Comments on SSSCA Senate Soliciting Comments on SSSCA
Senate Soliciting Comments on SSSCA- The US Senate Judiciary Committee website has a link requsting comments on DRM and the SSSCA. With reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA
Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA- "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an Action Alert on the SSSCA along with a sample letter." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA
Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA- "The Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group which includes IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Dell, and Motorola, has officially stated their opposition to the SSSCA, calling it 'an u ...
Senator Hollings and the SSSCA Senator Hollings and the SSSCA
Senator Hollings and the SSSCA- Discussion of NewsForge story about Senator Hollings' support of SSSCA and his money coming from entertainment industry companies, their lawyers, and their lobbyists. [Slashdot] ...
SSSCA Introduced in Senate SSSCA Introduced in Senate
SSSCA Introduced in Senate- "Wired is reporting that Hollings has officially submitted his newly renamed SSSCA, carrying the moniker Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA)." News and reader disc ...
SSSCA Hearing SSSCA Hearing
SSSCA Hearing- "A Senate Bill will likely force the issue of adding copy protection to hardware." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Congress Plans DMCA Sequel: The SSSCA Congress Plans DMCA Sequel: The SSSCA
Congress Plans DMCA Sequel: The SSSCA- "The sequel is called the 'Security Systems Standards and Certification Act,' and it requires PCs and consumer electronic devices to support 'certified security technologies' to be ...
Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project
Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project- "Blizzard Entertainment has shut down the bnetd project using the DMCA, as declared in their site." News and reader discussion forum. [Slashdot] ...
Group Backs ISP in Online Gaming Dispute Group Backs ISP in Online Gaming Dispute
Group Backs ISP in Online Gaming Dispute- "The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Tuesday that it will provide legal representation for a St. Louis Internet service provider threatened by media conglomerate Vivendi ...
Q&A With Vivendi Rep About Bnetd Q&A With Vivendi Rep About Bnetd
Q&A With Vivendi Rep About Bnetd- "War3pub.net managed to get some answers out of a Vivendi rep about why they are suing BnetD and what they hope to accomplish." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown
Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown- "Following the roar of protests following the shut down of the BnetD-project, Blizzard has posted a Battle.net emulation FAQ, citing their reasons to search out and close any pr ...
EFF Takes Bnetd Case EFF Takes Bnetd Case
EFF Takes Bnetd Case- "Blizzard is attempting to squash the Battle.net emulator and open source bnetd project. The EFF has taken the case." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Legal Analysis Critical of Blizzard v Bnetd Legal Analysis Critical of Blizzard v Bnetd
Legal Analysis Critical of Blizzard v Bnetd- "Lawmeme.org (from the Yale Law School) has published a long piece with lots of background and legal analysis on the case. Conclusion: Blizzard has an uphill legal battle." Ne ...
Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website- The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of an anti-Scientology site from search ...
MetaFilter Comments MetaFilter Comments
MetaFilter Comments- News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion. ...
Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns
Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns- Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively discussion. [Slashdot] ...
Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute
Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute- Summarizes the course of events in Scientology's efforts to remove links to critics' sites from Google, and the search engine's response of providing the DMCA complaints (and links) to ...
Scientologists Gag Google Scientologists Gag Google
Scientologists Gag Google- "Web search outfit Google has caved in to demands from the 'Church' of Scientology demanding that it delete URLs from its database directing Web surfers to certain pages maintained by Xenu.net, ...
Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links
Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links- "Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages fro ...
Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action" Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action"
Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action"- Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux Journal] ...
Google vs. DMCA and Scientology Google vs. DMCA and Scientology
Google vs. DMCA and Scientology- Discussion of a New York Times story on the Church of Scientology's DMCA complaints and Google's response. [Slashdot] ...
Google Relists Operation Clambake Google Relists Operation Clambake
Google Relists Operation Clambake- "Google only relisted Xenu.net's homepage (where the copyright claims by Scientology were clearly bogus), not the rest of the pages listed in Scientology's DMCA complaint." News and rea ...
Scientology Complaint to Google #2 Scientology Complaint to Google #2
Scientology Complaint to Google #2- Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of Operation Clambake. ...
American Renaissance American Renaissance
American Renaissance- A conservative publication. Promotes a variety of white racial positions. ...
Scientology Complaint to Google #4 Scientology Complaint to Google #4
Scientology Complaint to Google #4- Religious Technology Center and Bridge Publications demand, on behalf of the Church of Scientology, that Google delete posts from its Usenet archive of alt.religion.scientology. Text o ...
Scientology Complaint to Google #3 Scientology Complaint to Google #3
Scientology Complaint to Google #3- Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page. ...
Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links
Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links- "The Church of Scientology is using the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove links to a critical Web site from the Google search engine." By Matt Loney. [Z ...
Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics
Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics- Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon and Kobrin, demanding that Google remove xenu.net. ...
Rice University - Save Our Streams Rice University - Save Our Streams
Rice University - Save Our Streams- Information on how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can jeopardize educational, college and community webcasting. ...
US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry
US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry- News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the dismissal of Felten v. RIAA. By Thomas C. Greene. [Register] ...
DMCA 2, Freedom 0 DMCA 2, Freedom 0
DMCA 2, Freedom 0- "2600 is reporting that they've lost their Appeal in the 2nd Circuit court." News and discussion forum. [Slashdot] ...
Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment? Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?- "Does fair use entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work in the first place? It's at the heart of a closely-watched copyright and ...
Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery
Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery- "His site is a gallery devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection sys ...
Judges Weigh Copyright Suit on Unlocking DVD Shield Judges Weigh Copyright Suit on Unlocking DVD Shield
Judges Weigh Copyright Suit on Unlocking DVD Shield- "A lawyer for the Web magazine 2600 urged a federal appeals court in Manhattan yesterday to find unconstitutional a 1998 law that seeks to limit the unauthorized copyi ...
Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech
Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech- "In what may signal a heightened significance for a case testing the constitutionality of a 1998 digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court judges has asked both ...
Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case
Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case- "A federal judge in Manhattan ruled today that a Web site operator cannot distribute a computer program used to crack codes that prevent the piracy of movies." By John S ...
SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway
SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway- Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his role in creating the DeCSS program that unlocked a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a series of lawsuits ...
BBC News - Legal Victory for 'DVD Hacker' BBC News - Legal Victory for 'DVD Hacker'
BBC News - Legal Victory for 'DVD Hacker'- An appeals court clears a Norwegian man of DVD piracy charges brought against him by the US movie industry. ...
World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number
World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number- "Mathematician Phil Carmody, who in March of this year managed to encode the DeCSS source in a prime number, has upped the ante by producing a prime number which represents an ...
Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities
Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities- "The authorities responsible for investigating economic crime in Norway today (after 2 years of 'investigation') charged JLJ for violating a law regarding computer 'break-i ...
ThinkWiki ThinkWiki
ThinkWiki- Provides background information and various views. ...
Kingdom of Talossa Kingdom of Talossa
Kingdom of Talossa- Official website of the Kingdom of Talossa. Links to background information, discussion group and immigration. ...

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