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The champions of our digital rights, the Electronic Frotier Foundation, went to court twice this week. The first suit is on behalf of AT&T customers, against the NSA and others, for illegally spying on them.  They are also personally suing Bush, Cheney, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House [...]

Everybody’s favorite free-speech advocates, the church of Scientology (as opposed to Frank Zappa’s church of Appliantology), have used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to take down over four thousand videos critical of Scientology.
The Electronic Freedom Foundation doesn’t take this crap lying down and will more than likely sue to stop it.
Read more at Techdirt.
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Morning time is the time I hate most at work.
The trip up the steps and through the main floor is always deceptive.  There are only a few people there already and one can sleepily drift toward one’s desk.  And that’s where the problems start.
No sooner did I sit down then I received an email from [...]

Wille Faler writes “Swedish blogger and civil rights activist Henrik Alexandersson has been reported for “freedom of speech” violations by the head of FRA (Swedish National Defense Radio Establishment), the government agency that is responsible for surveilling the contents, origins and destinations of all phone calls, internet traffic and text messages passing through swedish networks, [...]

The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates.
duh…. first we bug their house……

The US House of Representatives has passed the PRO-IP bill, authorizing seizure of equipment used to `steal music’.
This means that if you are accused of pirating music, your computer can be seized.

A federal judge in New york has ruled that the RIAA cannot sue people for simply making copyrighted music available for download. Rather, the recording industry needs to demonstrate that someone has actually downloaded the file. Otherwise, it’s not clear that a crime actually took place.
Sorry boys. It’s the law (regardless of how [...]