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Most Cyberlocker Uploaders Not Driven by Cash Rewards

Last year the MPAA released a fact-sheet stating that the file-hosting business is “all about the money,” giving examples of sites that lure in uploaders by offering them lucrative sums of cash. While it’s...

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Monday, November 19th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Personal file-sharing is legal in Portugal, prosecutor says

Portugese prosecutors have declined to press charges against individuals accused of file sharing, arguing that the non-commercial sharing of copyrighted material is not a violation of Portugese law. The move was a serious setback...

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Thursday, September 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that intercepting traffic on unencrypted WiFi networks is not wiretapping. The decision runs counter to a 2011 decision that suggested Google may have violated the law...

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Friday, September 7th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Leave only footprints: how Google’s ethical ignorance gets it in trouble

"According to a well written and thorough article in the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology , what we've been saying for over three years has been determined to be true: WarDriving is...

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Sunday, May 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle

Photo: jadjadjad /Flickr Google’s public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans’ data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn’t quite mesh with what the search...

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments