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Groups seek to overturn ruling allowing warrantless phone tracking

A coalition of civil liberties groups has asked a federal appeals court to revisit a recent ruling that held the police did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they tracked suspect Melvin Skinner's...

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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Supreme Court orders do-over on key software patent ruling

United Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Supreme Court signaled skepticism about broad software patents Monday when it ordered reconsideration of an online advertising patent. The high court asked...

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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

The Industry, The Govt and The Copyright Trolls

We come with yet another report from the EFF about how Hollywood studios created a new kind of “monster” – copyright trolls who force settlements from internet subscribers by making use of intimidation,...

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Saturday, May 5th, 2012 Net News No Comments

MPAA: you can infringe copyright just by embedding a video

The Motion Picture Association of America is squaring off against a coalition of Internet giants and public interest groups over the key question of whether it's possible to directly infringe copyright by embedding...

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Spanish site claims forfeiture of link sites is illegal

Puerto 80, the Spanish company that owns the Rojadirecta sporting website , has asked a federal judge to dismiss the government's forfeiture of its domain names. Calling the seizure "an unprecedented effort to...

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Monday, August 8th, 2011 Net News No Comments
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