One of the Internet's dirty secrets is that there are limits. Now that's fine, as long as companies are up front and honest about it. Verizon steps over the line with its advertising of the...
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I previously reported on Debbie Foster being granted attorney fees in Capital v. Foster. It's a great story of one innocent person standing up to the huge entertainment industry. TechLaw writes...
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Coming soon if RIAA has their way ... "AT&T - Your World. And Your Privacy. Delivered." RIAA launched a new tactic in its war of terror against file sharers. It's trying to make...
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Defendant Debbie Foster of Oklahoma was granted attorney fees in Capitol v. Foster, a RIAA copyright infringement lawsuit. The case is RIAA's biggest setback to date. The Foster case followed a...
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F2C: Freedom to Connect is being held this year March 5 & 6 in the Washington, DC area. F2C features Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, sci-fi author Bruce Sterling, Professor Yochai Benkler and many more...
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Big media company beats up on defenseless individual ... This time its ABC vs. "Spocko", who posted record clips he considered offensive from ABC radio station KSFO-AM. ABC threatened...
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ISP GoDaddy become the Internet's largest domain registrar through strong pricing, customer service, and sexy Super Bowl commercials. I use them. It's time to reconsider after this chilling...
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In a rare loss for the recording industry, an Italian court ruled that copyright infringement is not a crime as long as the downloader or sharer does not profit. The decision is sure to draw the...
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Filed in archive Consumer rights
by Marc on January 18, 2007
They're baaaaaaaaack. New Congress. Old entertainment biz tricks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, which forces both satellite and Internet broadcasters to use DRM or lose...
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Judge Schell ruled in a split decision that RIAA can look at the Arellanes hard drive. The Plaintiff argued that the hard drive was required to provide evidence that infringed songs had been...
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New DVD formats HD-DVD and Blu Ray use DRM to prevent disc copying. It's been cracked with BackupHDDVD. The video formats use AACS encryption. Computer security experts Ed Felten and Alex...
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It was only a matter of time. The U.S. Supreme Court created a cause against file sharing developers for "active inducement." That was used for the basis of the recording industry suing the...
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RIAA now has dropped several copyright infringement lawsuits against suspected P2P file sharers, including Warner v. Pidgeon and Interscope v. Leadbetter and Elektra v. Santangelo . Generally this is...
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Filed in archive Consumer rights
by Marc on November 07, 2006
The EFF is participating in Fat Wallet. Fat Wallet gives discounts at hundreds of top Internet shopping sites, from 1-800-flowers to ZIRH Men's Skin Care, including Apple Store, Buy.com, Circuit...
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A new activist organization, Digital Freedom, has launched. The group has a strong pedigree in both the technology and consumer rights sectors with over 12 partners, including the Consumer Electronics...
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Filed in archive Consumer rights
by Marc on October 24, 2006
ProtectDisc brings the world Protect DVD-Video so that DVDs you legally own cannot be played on a Windows PC using Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center Edition, or any software player based on...
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Does DRM have a real and significant impact on products and their legal use? Absolutely. Tivo has taken a step back with their TiVo Series3 HD player. The Tivo ToGo service that allowed users to share...
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Defective by Design declared today "Day Agsint DRM" The group aims to create awareness that DRM is both widely used and hurts consumers. The only digital rights it protects are those of the...
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Hewlett-Packard's Patricia Dunn. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) The saga of the HP Board of Directors investigating the leak of a rogue board member is almost over. The State of California is...
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