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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 »TiVo: Cable is strangling our business with SDV
TiVo filed a cri de coeur (PDF) this week with the FCC, saying that its entire business is at risk of being shut down by the cable industry. In contrast to VCRs, which were a “thriving and intensely competitive market” in the 1990s, TiVo is the “only major competitive entrant left standing” in the DVR world. That’s no accident, says the company, and it’s not the result of natural market forces.
Continue reading »Jammie Thomas-Rasset Says No to RIAA’s Proposal
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the central figure in nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to litigation has refused to pay the settlement of $25,000 proposed by the recording industry for the charges to be dropped. The initial decision, which demanded the defendant to pay damage awards of $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa, was later reduced to $54,000 by the federal judge in the case. Ultimately, following the ruling of U.S.
Continue reading »Surveillance: 8,000,000 reasons for oversight
“Disclaimer,” writes Christopher Soghoian in slight paranoia , going on > > > “The information presented here has been gathered and analyzed in my capacity as a graduate student at Indiana University. This data was gathered and analyzed on my own time, without using federal government resources. This data, and the analysis I draw from it will be a major component of my PhD dissertation, and as such, I am releasing it in order to receive constructive criticism on my theories from other experts in the field.
Continue reading »BT call centre staff snaffle £45m lottery win
Talking telephone numbers here A syndicate of seven or eight BT call centre staff are celebrating a massive Euromillions lottery win today.… ?
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