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Legit and Illegitimate Streaming Music

Posted 01/24/08 at 10:36:40PM | by Erin Simon
Last.fm offers free streaming full-length songs on demand with the studios' blessing, while Seeqpod the music search engine gets sued.
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Why Immunity Matters: What Could Be Behind AT&T's Bizarre Proposal to Filter the Internet

Posted 01/18/08 at 12:07:05PM | by Erin Simon
Filtering its network for copyright infringement could expose AT&T to enormous liability. Why would the telecom be proposing to do just that?
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Scrabulous: I-N-F-R-I-N-G-I-N-G ?

Posted 01/14/08 at 07:47:12PM | by Erin Simon
Popular Facebook application Scrabulous faces the wrath of Hasbro over possibly infringing Scrabble's trademarks

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Pretty Good Privacy is Pretty Legally Protected

Posted 01/10/08 at 04:17:00PM | by Erin Simon
The legal right not to turn over your encryption password.
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New Year in Spyware

Posted 01/6/08 at 10:13:07PM | by Erin Simon
Sears adds surreptitious tracking software to its catalogue
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Netflix Prize Anonymous Dataset Broken

Posted 12/2/07 at 11:40:48PM | by Erin Simon
Two computer scientists have found a way to associate some anonymized Netflix users with individual identities, showing just how fragile our data privacy is.
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Amazon Rebuffs A Subpoena

Posted 11/30/07 at 12:35:17AM | by Erin Simon
When a federal prosecutor tries to subpoena the book-purchasing records of thousands of customers, Amazon stands up for its customers' First Amendment Rights
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What The Romantics Don't Like About Guitar Hero

Posted 11/25/07 at 10:05:21PM | by Erin Simon
The Romantics try an end-run around the Copyright Act by claiming a cover song sounds too much like them.

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