Obama releases Dubya’s secret anti-terror memos: “ Warrantless wiretapping? Check The Obama administration has released nine secret legal opinions penned by Bush Administration lawyers, revealing the scope of executive power the White House sought in…
Landmark Spamming, Obscenity Appeals Case Heats Up: “Appellants representing the first convictions in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for online obscenity not involving child pornography and the first convictions ever under the federal…
Obama chopper plans leaked on file-sharing nets: “ Secret ‘Marine One’ copter blueprints seen at Tehran IP Confidential blueprints and specifications for the planned new US presidential helicopters have been accidentally leaked to the torrents…
US – Child porn damages precedent set: “(BBC) A British man living in the US has been told by a judge to pay $200,000 to a woman for possessing an indecent image of her as…
Post from: TorrentFreak FBI Tracks Down Oscars BitTorrent Uploaders Two Californian men have been charged with uploading leaked copies of Oscar-nominated Hollywood movies to the Internet. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, yesterday a federal…
Congress mulls stringent data retention rules: “ Two-year logs for ISPs, hotspots, even homes US politicians have proposed legislation that would oblige both ISPs and people running Wi-Fi hotspots to keep access logs for two…
California ban on violent video games killed on appeal: “ Violent material protected. Porn? Not so much A California federal appeals court on Friday ruled that a state law criminalizing the sale of violent video…
Mozilla, Skype support DMCA jailbreaking exemption: “The Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications have both filed papers in support of a proposed DMCA exemption for the jailbreaking of smartphones. (Via Macworld.)
Judge approves AP’s online news copying suit: “ ‘Hot news doctrine’ survives internet The Associated Press can proceed with a copyright infringement lawsuit against an online news aggregation service after a federal judge ruled a…
NSA offering ‘billions’ for Skype eavesdrop solution: “ Business model for P2P firm at last? Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter…