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Law Firm Accused of Bullying Alleged File Sharers
The tables turn – Atari and other major game publishers have chosen Davenport Lyons to represent them numerous times and the law firm quickly made a reputation for hunting alleged copyright infringers. However, according to GI.biz , the firm is now being investigated for harassment and bullying by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog. It’s been two years since the consumer group Which?
Continue reading »Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists
The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. The U.S.
Continue reading »No rules: Internet security a Hobbesian "state of nature"
Life in cyberspace can be nasty, brutish, and short. So says a new report (PDF) on international cybersecurity, which argues that the Internet is a Hobbesian “state of nature” where anything goes, where even government attacks maintain “plausible deniability,” and where 80 percent of industrial control software is hooked into an IP network. It’s also a world where the US is both a model and a bully.
Continue reading »Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent
Earlier this year a new BitTorrent tracker was launched. Due to its public nature, OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker, which has recently closed down for good. OpenBitTorrent is merely a tracker, carries no .torrent files and also operates a full DMCA-style notice and takedown policy.
Continue reading »Government Settles for $3 Million in Spying Coffee Table Suit
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table. Rather than comply with a court order to provide lawyers in the case with what the U.S.
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