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50 Million MegaUpload Users Facing Complete Loss of Data
In the wake of the Government shutdown of MegaUpload, its users are facing the prospect of losing all of their data as soon as Thursday. Because MegaUpload’s data was stored on third-party servers and...
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Breaking: MegaUpload Users Get 2 Week Reprieve
MSNBC is reporting (via CNET) that data belonging to MegaUpload’s customers will not be deleted on Thursday as originally reported. The two companies hosting MegaUpload’s data – Carpathia Hosting and...
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Federal Appeals Court Says Taking Source Code Not a Federal Crime
On Wednesday, in another big setback for companies fighting computer-related fraud, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York threw out the conviction of a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc....
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EPIC Wants FCC’s Full Report on Google Street View
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an internet privacy advocacy group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Wednesday with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for...
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Digital Rights Management Issues Continue to Tangle Consumers
There was a time, long ago, when we bought something and it was ours. We could use it, give it away, light it on fire… whatever, but it was ours. Recently it came to be that something that was ours...
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Another Lesson Learned: Instagram Quickly Backtracks After Angering Its Users
This week, users of Instagram scored a victory with the company’s management over a plan to amend Instagram’s terms of service that would allow the third-party use of users’ photos without their...
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If You Can Read This, You Might Just Have to Sue Someone…
How long did it take for this page to load? Not fast enough for you? Well you might just have a potential lawsuit on your hands. While my cynical humor may seem funny to some and sad to others, it...
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How Your Cell Phone Became a Perching Felony: About the Recent DMCA...
Before you read any further, go read and take note of this petition. You may want to sign it (I did), but context will help in reading this blog post. In case you’ve been studying really, really hard...
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Piracy, ISPs, and six strikes: not two outs, or even one…
In a voluntary self-policing effort most likely intended to help safeguard their Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) Section 230 immunity from suit, several Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) have...
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