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New York High Court OKs Child-Porn Web Surfing
The New York Court of Appeals building. Photo: New York Court of Appeals Accessing and viewing child pornography over the internet is not necessarily a crime under New York law, the state’s highest...Virgin Media Faces Angry Pirate Bay Fans For Blocking Access To The Website
After Virgin Media was court ordered to block access to the file-sharing hub – The Pirate Bay – file-sharers have decided to take direct action against UK’s ISP. The protesters plan to not...Week in tech: Windows 8 on the desktop, child porn honeypots, and Oracle v. Google
Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid : With its two distinct interfaces, what is Windows 8 like as a desktop operating system? Our 8,000-word answer: better than feared, worse than hoped. Get...Feature: "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills. Instead,...Megaupload: Erasing our servers as the US wants would deny us a fair trial
On Friday, Megaupload asked the Virginia judge overseeing its criminal copyright case to spare the data on its servers from deletion. Megaupload had leased 1,103 servers holding 25 petabytes of data from Carpathia...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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