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EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes
Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU?
Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary
Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites
FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network
Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface
German President Refuses To Sign Censorship Law
UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers
eBay For Millionaires
Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain
Recovering the Slums of the Internet?
US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright
Founder of Tibet's "Butter-Lamp" Site Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off
FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker
Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed
Israeli ISPs Caught Interfering With P2P Traffic
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars
Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam
Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change
Amazon Scores Gift-Delivery Patent
Federal Appeals Court Tosses Spam Patent
Google About Openness
Opera Closes China Loophole; Reinstates Censorship
Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad.
Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA
Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement
Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized
BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation
GPL Wins In French Court Case
Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again
Should I Publish Or Patent?
TI vs. Calculator Hackers
Torrents Being Honey Potted
Wireless Network Modded To See Through Walls
Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You!
Finnish Computer Store Buys Teen's Name
Smart Grid Could Pose Threat To Privacy
CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering
Grandmother Googled Murder Penalties Before Partner's Death
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers
Ministry of Defense's "How To Stop Leaks" Document Is Leaked
Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million
Google CEO Says Privacy Worries Are For Wrongdoers
"Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes
1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria
3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster
Second Life To Remove Free Content From Web Search
AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink
Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations
Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor
Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents
Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money
Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense
Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites
Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push
Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others
Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain
How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works
Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog"
India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones
Judge Orders Permanent Injunction Against Psystar
Lulu Introduces DRM
MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid
NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes
No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age
Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband"
Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times
Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google
The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn
USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality
Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic
Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy
eBay vs. Craigslist Courtroom Fisticuffs Start Today
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability
Iranian Crackdown Goes Global
Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You
$2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System
A New Libel Defense In Canada; For Blogs Too
AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site
Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs
After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship
Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken
Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads
Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor
Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA
Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China
Augmented Reality and Privacy
Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship
Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids
Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits
Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights
Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again
Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims
China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views
Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software
Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia
City Laws Only Available Via $200 License
Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit
Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax
Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy"
Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones
DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case
Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy
Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter
Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer"
DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal
Dutch Gov't Has No Idea How To Delete Tapped Calls
EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists
EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy
EPIC Takes Fight To Facebook Over Privacy
ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue
EU Funding "Orwellian" Artificial Intelligence Snooping System
Emergency Government Control of the Internet?
Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent
FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box
FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week
FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews
Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public
Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance
Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment
French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models
French President Violates His Own Copyright Law, Again
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
Google Analytics May Be Illegal In Germany
Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement
Google May Limit Free News Access
Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online
Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines
High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border
Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope
House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act"
In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs
In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances
India To Have Automatic Communications Monitoring
Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic
Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests
Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal
Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom
Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin
Lawsuit Against Patented Human Genes Advances
Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware
Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books
Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed
MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions
MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole
Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food?
Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7
Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers"
Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms
Musicians Oppose Anti-Piracy Measures In the UK
National Data Breach Law Advances
Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion
New "JUSTICE" Act Could Roll Back Telecom Immunity
New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners
New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone
Patent Issued For Podcasting
Pirate Party Unites In Australia
Playstation Network Gets Revised, More Restrictive ToS
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute
Published Google Docs To Appear In Search Engines
RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum
Red Hat Files Amicus Brief In Bilski Patent Case
Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards
SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust"
Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan
Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking
Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity
Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released
Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them
Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP
Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments
T-Mobile UK Employees Sold Customers' Information
Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law
The Trial of Terry Childs Begins
Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking
Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You
Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency
UK File-Sharing Laws Unenforceable On Mobile Networks
UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity
UK Law Enforcement Is Against "3-Strikes"
UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall
Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement
Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK