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Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seized in Megaupload Case

Photo: Parker Miles Blohm/Flickr Federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Megaupload users to recover their data following the government’s seizure of the file-sharing service’s servers and domain...

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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 Net News No Comments

Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing

Photo: Matt Licht, NotionsCapital.com/Flickr The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and...

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Monday, October 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Copyright Grounds

A California actress who appeared in the infamous “Innocence of Muslims” flick on YouTube is again asking a federal court to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a...

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Thursday, September 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

Judge M. Margaret McKeown The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and...

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Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA

Illustration: Electronic Frontier Foundation A former congressional staffer and NSA whistleblower who the authorities suspected of exposing the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program is suing the government, saying her constitutional rights are being...

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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 Net News 1 Comment