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DMCA Exemption Unlikely for iPad Jailbreak
A lot and little has transpired following the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the U.S. Copyright Office for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for authorization to jailbreak an iPhone or any “wireless telephone handsets.” For starters, the Copyright Office’s decision has been pending since December 2008 — although a ruling is expected any time . During that wait, however, Apple unveiled the iPad — a gadget with the same closed ecosystem of the iPhone that isn’t likely covered in EFF’s request.
Continue reading »Apple to stick padlocks on books for iPad
FairPlay DRM will rise again Apple is dusting off FairPlay – the digital rights management used by iTunes – to protect electronic copies of books sold to iPad users.… ?
Continue reading »etc: The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a FOIA request looking for more info on the NSA-Google partnership.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a FOIA request looking for more info on the NSA-Google partnership. Read More: Computerworld , Ars Technica
Continue reading »Microsoft’s muscle-interface patent gets under your skin
Computers get really personal Microsoft boffins have applied for patents that could let you control computer-based devices using electronic impulses from your muscles rather than fiddling with your fingers.…
Continue reading »DOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents
The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to its electronic court filing system, which is composed entirely of documents in the public domain. That’s according to government documents made public through a Freedom of Information Act request by open government advocate Carl Malamud (pictured right) . Malamud sought the information to prove that an open source repository of U.S.
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