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DVD Copying Case Focuses on ‘Fair Use’
SAN FRANCISCO – Hollywood studios told a federal judge here Friday consumers have no right to make copies of their DVDs. The U.S. courts, however, have never squarely answered whether that was true, a legal vacuum that might be answered in the Motion Picture Association of America’s lawsuit against RealNetworks.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Hollywood studios told a federal judge here Friday that consumers have no right to make copies of their DVDs. The U.S. courts, however, have never squarely answered whether that was true, a legal vacuum that might be answered in the Motion Picture Association of America’s lawsuit against RealNetworks.
Continue reading »NSA Chief: ‘We Do Not Want to Run Cyber Security’
NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, speaking at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, told the audience of security professionals on Tuesday that the NSA does “not want to run cyber security for the United States government.” Aiming to dispel news reports — and counter previous intelligence agency statements — that the National Security Agency is angling to grab the top spot in the government’s cyber security initiative, Alexander said it’s a job that’s bigger than one agency and that the NSA isn’t looking to control but rather to partner with DHS, other defense departments, industry and law enforcement.
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