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More ACTA Details Leak: It's An Entertainment Industry Wishlist

Nov 3, 2009
The latest round of "negotiations" over the ACTA treaty continue in secret due to as yet unexplained national security reasons (despite the fact that the entertainment industry lobbyists have had full access to the document) are kicking off...

Stop Overreacting: Hulu Not Ditching Free Yet

Oct 23, 2009
A ton of readers here have been submitting various versions of stories claiming that Hulu is getting rid of free content. I'd been ignoring the story, because it's a non-story at this point. But people keep submitting it, so let's go th...

News Corp Lawyer: Aggregators Steal From Us! News Corp: Hey Check Out Our Aggregator!

Oct 15, 2009
We've already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy. We've already looked into the issue of a...

Google Ordered To Shut Down Gmail Account Of User Who Received Unsolicited Banking Info

Sep 24, 2009
Yesterday, we wrote about Google being taken to court because Rocky Mountain Bank screwed up and sent confidential information to the wrong person's gmail account. It's still not clear why they were sending confidential info to anyone's ...

Homeland Security Still Plans To Search Laptops At Borders With No Probable Cause

Aug 28, 2009
There's been plenty of concern over the past few years with regards to Homeland Security's claims that it has the right to inspect the contents of your laptop at the border, even without any...

Oh Look: Hollywood Doesn't Need To Break Your TV To Release PPV Movies Early

Nov 5, 2009
For a while now, the MPAA and the major movie studios have been asking the FCC for permission to break your TV and DVR by enabling "selectable output control," which would block the recording of certain movies. The MPAA's claim for why they needed...

Dear RIAA: It's Not 'Working Together As A Team' When It's Under Threat Of Regulation

Nov 5, 2009
I've been trying not to respond to every RIAA blog post these days, but it's hard to let certain things go when they so rarely make any sense. For example, RIAA President Cary Sherman recently talked up the new regulations that force colleges and...

Why Do Canada And Europe Copyright Money?

Nov 5, 2009
We've discussed in the past the odd idea that any government should be able to copyright anything it produces, but plenty of governments still do maintain things like "crown copyright" or other similar concepts for content they create. Yet, it looks...

Perfect Pitch Accused Of DMCA Abuse To Censor Criticism

Nov 5, 2009
Michael Scott points us to yet another (yes, another) case of copyfraud, where someone sends a DMCA takedown notice to stop criticism, rather than actual infringement. In this case, the party accused of misusing the DMCA in this manner (which is...

OK, Hollywood Learns A Scary Lesson From 'Paranormal Activity'

Nov 5, 2009
A few weeks back, I noted that the low-budget (but highly-profitable) Paranormal Activity movie might teach Paramount a thing or two about how the business of making movies could succeed without spending millions on big stars and overly-expensive sets....


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