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Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation
Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker
Artists Strive To Wrest Rights From Music Industry
Walmart Caves On DRM Removal
Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case
Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants
Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All
Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
State Secrets Defense Rejected In Wiretapping Case
IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship
Microsoft To Disable Autorun
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus
UK Government Abandons Piracy Legislation
Canadian Court of Appeals Decides Website Linking Isn't Libelous
Valve Takes Optimistic View of Piracy
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools
Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?
Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution
French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill
EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law
German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed
Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional
Rick Boucher To Chair House Internet Committee
SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus
Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
Lessig's "In Defense of Piracy"
Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
RIAA Gives Up In Atlantic Recording v. Brennan
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud
FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights'
Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud
Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal
New EMI Boss Says 'Downloads May Be Good'
KY Appeals Court Nixes Seizure of Gambling-Linked Domains
UK Government Boosts Open Source Adoption
Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed
Major League Baseball Dumps Silverlight For Flash
German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law
Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition
US Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims
AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization"
EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes
Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession
The Pirates Will Always Win, Says UK ISP
RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers
Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
Judge Invalidates Software Patent, Citing Bilski
Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180
Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity
Belgian ISP Scores Victory In Landmark P2P Case
Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative
Time Warner Shelves Plans For Tiered Pricing
Arizona Judge Shoots Down RIAA Theories
FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules
Model-View-Controller — Misunderstood and Misused
RIAA Loses $222K Verdict
Judge Says Boston Student's Laptop Was Seized Illegally
EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones
Game Devs Using One-Time Bonuses to Fight Used Game Sales
Prior Art In Barracuda-Trend Micro Lawsuit
Microsoft To Exit the Zune Business?
French Three-Strikes Law Ruled Unconstitutional
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped
Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional
AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing
IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default
Jack Thompson Disbarred
Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case
Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
State Cannot Force Removal of SSNs From Privacy Advocate's Site
Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network
Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System
Judge Excludes 3 "John Does" From RIAA Subpoena
Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October
Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit
Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
Utah Governor Vetoes Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill
Positive Rights News From Europe
UK ISPs Resistant to Monitoring Users
Congress Endorses Open Source For Military
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid
EU Patent Staff Go On Strike
UK Report Slams EULAs
Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books
Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy
Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision
EMI May Cut Funding To RIAA, IFPI
Senate Proposal To Clarify 'State Secrets' Doctrine
Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work
Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result
Case Against Video-Sharing Site Dismissed
FCC Votes To Punish Comcast
Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network
Aussie Regulator Comes Down On SMS Spam
NY Bill Proposes Tax Credit for Open Source Developers
Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015
With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA
AT&T, Verizon To Require Opt-In For User Tracking
Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music
RIAA and Net Radio Broadcasters Reach Agreement
Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices
Judge Rejects Sheriff's Suit Against Craigslist
Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros
Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine
Game Designer Makes Case For Used Games
Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search
FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality
Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain
Judge Rules Sprint Early Termination Fees Illegal
Craigslist Shielded From Prosecution In SC
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
UK ISPs Want Copyright Holders to Pay if Users Sue
Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities
US House Rejects Telecom Amnesty
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
SCO Terminates Darl McBride
Netflix Changes Its Mind, Will Keep Profiles Feature
Congress Considers Reform On Orphaned Works
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway
US House Kills Proposed Delay For Digital TV Transition
Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation
Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development
Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum
Oregon AG Seeks to Investigate RIAA Tactics
Researcher Finds No Link Between Violent Games and School Shootings
Canada Rejects Business Method Patents
Microsoft Spokesman Says ODF "Clearly Won" Standard War
Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson
NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPS
Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled
Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society
FCC Considers Opening Up US Broadband Access
US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional
ISO Puts OOXML On Hold
Lawyer Banned for Threatening File-Sharers
FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel
Bell Canada Ordered To Justify Traffic-Shaping Practices
Copyright Decision In Australia Vindicates 3d-Party EPG Provider
Stardock Declares Victory Over Demigod Piracy
Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses
Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified
Linux Needs Critics
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans
Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order
Irish Reject E-Voting, Go Back To Paper
ODF Toolkit Announced
Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns
Mod Chips Legal In the UK
Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay
MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted
MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube
eBay's Plan to Force PayPal Rejected Down Under
Canadian Regulator Says No To New Internet Regs
Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted
Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights
RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers
ACLU Wins, No Sexting Charges For NJ Teens
iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld
Federal Court Says First-Sale Doctrine Covers Software, Too
FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet
Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit
Mozilla Nixes Firefox EULA Requirement
MTV Takes on P2P by Making South Park Free
Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates
YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video
South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal
Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs
Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available' Theory
Appeals Court Stays RIAA Subpoena Vs. Students
AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College
ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting