It's really a reaction to the fact that newspapers spent way too many years in denial that they were no longer the only news sources in town. However, one newspaper subscriber to the News & Observer in North Carolina is suing the paper over its recent cuts.
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Now it appears that Macrovision, the big DRM company that supplies DRM to movie studios has cooked up its own study trying to support the MPAA in this argument, claiming that lots of people are copying DVDs and that most of them would buy the DVDs they copy otherwise.
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There was plenty of attention given to the judge's order that Google hand over log files to Viacom's lawyers in the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit, with much of it focused on what an awful ruling this was. It's rather easy: the doctor has a right to the medical info, while a third party does not.
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Does Comcast believe the FCC has authority over its traffic shaping efforts? Still, when defending itself against a lawsuit in California over the very same traffic shaping, Comcast has convinced a judge to suspend the lawsuit by noting that the FCC has clear authority over these matters :
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For years, we've been pointing out that as the entertainment industry, telcos and the government increase efforts to spy on the activities of users (for various reasons, good or bad), all it's going to do is speed the adoption of encryption technologies.
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I'm not sure where I come down on his latest thought piece, suggesting that part of the reason why companies have been hoarding so many patents is because of cost accounting. His assertion is that cost accounting treats patents as an asset, rather than as equity.
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The courts have said that US Customs officials do not need probable cause to search laptops. You didn't choose to bring those specific things across the border -- and it's not like going through a border crossing is the best way to move that content across the border.
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Well, we've got a lot more than 2,000 readers, and if we have any sort of de facto "public trust" with our readers, it's to write about what we think they'll find interesting -- and they've made it clear they don't care about press release "fake news."
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As news of this wrongful conviction got out, more and more security experts tried to explain to everyone involved why Amero was not the guilty party. The fact that they're planning to go through another trial over this matter suggests they still don't even realize what they did.
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