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In the wake of former CIA Director David Petraeus’ sex scandal—uncovered largely through the disclosure of explicit e-mails between him and his mistress—the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a new amendment to the Electronic Communications Privacy..."Six strikes" copyright enforcement postponed until 2013
The Center for Copyright Information, which will be punishing Internet copyright infringers by administering a "six strikes" warning system, was scheduled to start operations before the end of this year. But today CCI announced that...Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo
Republican Study Committee staffer Derek Khanna. On Friday afternoon, an influential group representing conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives released a shockingly sensible memo calling for sweeping reforms of the nation's copyright laws....Lyft, SideCar, and Uber all slapped with $20K fines from CA regulator
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Source: Google One day after news reports described the government’s surveillance of email accounts used for communication between the nation’s top spy and his mistress, Google released stats showing a rise in the number...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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