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Sharing 7 Movies on BitTorrent = $1.5 Million Damages

BitTorrent piracy is widespread and some copyright holders in the United States have begun to aggressively enforce their rights via legal action. In most instances the resulting lawsuits end in a settlement of a...

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Saturday, December 1st, 2012 Net News No Comments

US cyber-weapons exempt from "human judgment" requirement

HAL is convinced this new approach can work really, really well. As custom government malware becomes an increasingly common international weapon with real-world effects—breaking a centrifuge, shutting down a power grid, scrambling control...

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Thursday, November 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Newzbin2, the MPAA’s Usenet Enemy #1, Calls it Quits

While the newsgroup system has been running for years, in some ways it was the original Newzbin site that put Usenet binary downloading on the map of the masses. The site created the NZB...

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Thursday, November 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

The Internet’s most hated lawyer finally gets served in free speech lawsuit

Charles Carreon, self-described "counsel to the good and the good-looking." Charles Carreon The original case pitting Internet humor website The Oatmeal against the tenacious Arizona attorney Charles Carreon concluded back in July 2012....

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments

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