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<title><![CDATA[Man launches lawsuit to have Google�s trademark on its own name undone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When is a trademark not a trademark? According to a new lawsuit, the answer may be when it becomes so well-known, it ceases to be a name and becomes a verb... In a strange way, the latest lawsuit facing Google is a compliment of sorts.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI Seize Leakster.net For Storing Hacked WHMCS Information]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When attempting to connect to leakster.net, users are automatically re-directed to The FBI website instead.  The attacks on Comcast and WHMCS caused a media frenzy due to the credit card details and other records from 500,000 of their customers were  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Google kindly published a database of takedown requests sent to the search giant on copyright grounds. The DMCA notices are supposed to help protect legitimate sales but entertainment companies sending them are clearly having problems.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shouldn't The Post Office Be My ISP]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[BPI is Sending DMCA Notices about the UK Pirate Party Proxy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) is now sending google DMCA noticesto remove links from the Piratebay. However, thepiratebay is already blocked in the UK, so BPI is  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Broadband In Crisis: Does The US Need Regulation To Force Meaningful Competition?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Susan Crawford believes telecommunications in America are going through the biggest crisis ever, and this is just as bad as the banking crisis was. Monday, at the Freedom 2 Connect conference, the Internet law scholar and former Special Assistant for   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BitTorrent Traffic Booms Due to �Licensing Challenges�]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the U.S., BitTorrent�s share of total Internet traffic is falling sharply and the aggregate share of all P2P sharing applications is now at an all-time low of 12.7 percent. In other parts of the world, however, this trend is noticeably absent.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Removes 1 Million Infringing Links Monthly]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software � with about half of those requests last month coming from Microsoft.  The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After Facebook fails]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist:  At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our time: that the Web, with all its targeting abilities  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Breakdown of a Fake AV Scammer]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[New Jersey mayor, son, arrested on charges they nuked recall website]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mayor of a small New Jersey hamlet has been arrested, along with his son, on federal charges that they shut down a website advocating the mayor's recall after breaking into the online accounts of political foes.  According to federal officials,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make a Proxy for Kat.ph]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-05-24b/Make_a_Proxy_for_Kat.ph.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A version of cgi-proxy that works for kat.ph is here.It depends on apache, and the latest version of perl and can be run on linuxservers (deb, redhat) and on windows des  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yemen Al Qaeda Websites Hacked By U.S. State Department, Clinton Says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida � hacking into al-Qaida websites in Yemen.  In a rare public admission of the covert cyber war against extremists, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says cyber experts   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Axis Chrome Extension Leaks Private Certificate File]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Preamble: The tl;dr for users is to not install (in my opinion) the Yahoo! Axis extenion for Chrome until this issue is clarified. See update below about disclosing this issue.  Yahoo! today announced their new Axis web browser. It is implemented as   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate panel extends warrantless wiretapping law]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday approved the extension of legislation that authorized a sweeping warrantless wiretapping program started under the Bush Administration.   The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 gave the government broad powers   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jury says Google doesn�t infringe on Oracle patents]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the case of Oracle versus Google, it appears that the jury�s verdict is out and it�s favoring Google. Reports are just coming out now from the San Francisco court room, where the jury has already been dismissed and the third phase of the trial  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how much of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA? Well, in the newly proposed Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, just introduced  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Italian Court Orders All ISPs To Block KickAssTorrents]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[KickAssTorrents, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet today, is facing a total blackout in Italy. Following an investigation by the country�s cybercrime police, an ISP blocking order has now been granted against a   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent days The Pirate Bay announced the addition of a new proxy-friendly version of their site supported by a new IP address. This means that customers of ISPs that had previously implemented a court-ordered blockade could now access the site again.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[the immortal suprbay returns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[after some downtime, a site called suprbay.org has been restarted. word on thestreet is that it's some kind of forum where some people talk about somethings.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The RIAA Claimed LimeWire Owed Them 72 TRILLION Dollars]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LimeWire may have been shut down nearly two years ago, but that didn't prevent the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from demanding money in damages. The RIAA believes filesharing site LimeWire owes them an estimated $72 trillion dollars  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EU Parliament Majority Expresses Support for ACTA]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A majority in the European Parliament just voted in favor of a resolution saying that it  �regrets that China has not taken part in the negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)�  Although this is not quite the same as voting   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oklahoma University's Patented Steak?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on NPR yesterday showed some of the major problems with the US Patent system. Oklahoma State University (OSU) is planning to patent a new 'cut of beef'. The cut, dubbed 'Vegas Strip Steak' is from a part currently ground up and   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Internet TV Service]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcasts to New Yorkers.  Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wyden To Obama: Hollywood Shouldn't Know More About TPP Than Congress]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Senator Wyden has been at the forefront of raising concerns about the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (as with many other issues we follow), specifically over the total lack of transparency from the USTR on the issue. While USTR Ron Kirk has  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo offers sync and search features in new Axis Web browser]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo is aiming to get its foot into the browser market with a new product called Axis that launched this evening. The purpose of Axis is to add an extra layer to the user�s Web browsing experience, with interactive search capabilities and cross-device   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ACTA: what is commercial scale?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another interesting twist on the ACTA story came out of the European Parliament London seminar last week. The rights-holders, who seem to be struggling to hold their nerves  at the moment, are now saying that ACTA �only� applies to �commercial scale�   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Florida VoIP carrier has filed a net neutrality complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility accused the VoIP firm of theft of service for using its network to deliver voice service without paying for it. L2Networks   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Senator Ron Wyden Slams Cybersecurity Legislation Proposals For Eroding Trust & Privacy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Senator Ron Wyden took to the floor of the Senate earlier this week to speak out against pretty much all of the current cybersecurity proposals out there arguing that "privacy should be the default, not the exception." While noting that narrowly targeted   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York legislation would ban anonymous online speech]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Did you hear the one about New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and �baseless political attacks?"  Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TorrentFreak Censored by Orange�s Child Protection Filter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Internet is a scary place for kids, but luckily there�s censorship.  In the UK mobile networks have so-called �child protection filters� to deal with shady content, and in many cases these are turned on by default.  The filters block all sorts of  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dan Bull�s Free Music for Hire]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dan Bull is perhaps the most innovative artist of our time when it comes to producing and sharing free licensed music on the internet. Not to mention talented.  Unlike artists who began with some celebrity status and took advantage of their already   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dan Bull Auctioning Off Another Custom Song On eBay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We've obviously written about musician Dan Bull a few times, but that's because he keeps doing cool things, both in writing good, insightful and funny songs about topics we're interested in here, but also experimenting with cool ways to connect with  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon unveils video app with Comcast, Netflix]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon Wireless plans to launch a mobile video streaming application later this month with content from everybody from Comcast Corp to Netflix Inc as the mobile provider looks to increase usage on its mobile network. The move comes as the venture of   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[close the gate]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Canadian Telcos Secretly Supporting Internet Surveillance Legislation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Canada's proposed Internet surveillance was back in the news last week after speculation grew that government intends to keep the bill in legislative limbo until it dies on the order paper. This morning, Michael Geist reports that nearly all of the major   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Glasses patent hints at speech-to-text display for deaf users]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is bulking up on patents to protect its new augmented reality glasses project from legal attack, with at least nine new patents issued in the past week to cover various aspects of the futuristic devices. The patents provide a glimpse into what   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Doubtful Constitutionality of ACTA as an Ex Ante Congressional-Executive Agreement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dozens of scholars have written a letter to complain about the constitutional basis for President Obama to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).  ACTA, for those who don�t know, is a controversial trade pact designed to tighten domestic   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[THE DICTATOR'S PRACTICAL INTERNET GUIDE TO POWER RETENTION]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/15728</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The goal of this guide is to provide leaders of authoritarian, autocratic, theocratic, totalitarian and other single-leader or single-party regimes with a basic set of guidelines on how to adopt the internet to ensure the highest retention of power   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How the German Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy" Works]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the political upheaval affecting Europe, a relatively new movement is making stunning progress, particularly in Germany. On Sunday, the Pirate Party entered its third German state parliament in eight months, demonstrating momentum  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MISSIONARY CHURCH OF KOPIMISM]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An historic change occurred in Sweden in 2000 when the Lutheran Church of Sweden was disestablished as the official state church. The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency, Kammarkollegiet, was created in that same year, with one   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In one of the mass 'John Doe' cases based on single BitTorrent downloads of films, Malibu Media v. Does 1-13, a pro se litigant made a motion to quash the subpoena. The Court granted a stay of the subpoena, pending its decision on the motion to quash  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Julia O'Dwyer: Facts on Britons extradition to the US ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fact 1: #Extradition to US: No chance to prove innocence in UK court prior to extradition � Julia O'Dwyer (@jrodwyer) April 11, 2012  Fact 2: #Extradition No explanation or information given before you are cuffed & taken immediately to court   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Party knows where the money is]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the oddities of recent election results in Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe is the rise of the Pirate Party. This party received 7.8 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia yesterday, making it the fourth state government in   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Call of Duty Trojan horse creator ends up in jail, after drunken college raid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A British man who spread a spyware Trojan horse posing as a patch for the popular video game "Call of Duty", has ended up with an 18 month jail sentence.  According to local media reports, 20-year-old Lewys Martin of Deal, Kent, distributed a Trojan horse  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay Creates alternative IP for Proxies, Redirects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To help people circumvent recent European blockades against thepiratebay, the Piratebay is willing to begin playing wack-a-mole with IPs, the same way they did with Itailian and Belgian DNS blocks. A new IP has been setup, that is not currently  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Peter Martin: Why do we negotiate free trade agreements in secret?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At 11.30 this morning Kuala Lumpur time our trade minister Craig Emerson and his Malaysian counterpart will sign a free trade agreement that promises �a new chapter� in the Australia-Malaysia relationship.  Only then will we find out what�s in it.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[About Video Streaming Sites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So I was bored and didn't have anything to post, so I'm pasting this convo I read about streaming sites:100% of those sites don't stream their content, they just use a b  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Given Antitrust Ultimatum From Europe Regulators]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google may have abused its dominance in Internet search by promoting its own businesses at the expense of competitors, the European Commission said Monday. It warned the company to propose changes in �a matter of weeks� to its method of answering  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bomb Threat at NSA�s Massive Top-Secret Data Center Halts Construction]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A bomb threat at the NSA�s spanking new massive data center in Utah has led authorities to evacuate workers, according to the Associated Press.  Bomb-sniffing dogs have reportedly been brought in to search for anything suspicious. Workers were evacuated   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks Announces 'New Encrypted Facebook']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The WikiLeaks Twitter feed announced on 20 May 2012 that the WL Friends/Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL) network is ready to launch an 'encrypted Facebook'. This comes amidst growing concern for user privacy and safety at the Facebook website.    [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linux kernel 3.2.18 released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Hutchings has released 3.2.18 with plenty of important fixes.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Perl 5.16.0 Released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Perl 5.16.0 is now available with plenty of improvements all around. You can view a summary and all the change details here. With Perl on an annual release schedule, and projects like   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge In Grooveshark Lawsuit Orders Blog To 'Preserve' Logs That Had Already Been Deleted]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, we noted a problematic attempt by Grooveshark's parent company, Escape Media, to subpoena information on an anonymous commenter on the blog site Digital Music News. As we noted at the time, Universal Music had referenced that comment   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop Extradition - Fair UK Trial for Richard O'Dwyer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard O'Dwyer a 23yr old University student has been served an Extradition Warrant by the US on charges of copyright infringement relating to his web site which provided links to enable its users to access films on the internet. At all times he was in   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Peter Sunde Explains Internet Termonology To An Older Generation]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans� communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.  The announcement is a win for the Obama   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Terrifying Ways Google Is Destroying Your Privacy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google appears to have morphed from a corporation that proclaims, �Don�t be evil� to one insisting that users �Join the Borg.�  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Techdirt Threatened With Defamation Suit Over Story On Feds Getting Royalty In Movie From Mexican Drug Cartel Money Launderer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We recently wrote about a very strange case, in which the US government apparently ended up with a 10% royalty in a soon to be produced Hollywood movie that is being billed as the "prequel" to Passion of the Christ -- the famous Mel Gibson movie that   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should People Learn To Code? Yes � If They Are Judges Ruling On Cases Involving Software]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently Techdirt wrote about the heated debate on the subject of whether people should learn to code. We pointed out that some knowledge of that subject could be particularly useful in helping people understand why copyrighting APIs or patenting software  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-Rutgers student webcam spy sentenced to 30 days in jail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who was convicted in March of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail by a New Jersey judge.  Following Ravi�s actions, which included using a webcam and iChat to remotely   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Undercover MPAA Agents Expose Alleged Movie Pirates]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A British couple are facing life imprisonment after an MPAA sting operation revealed they were the owners of streaming links site SurfTheChannel. Aside from the use of an undercover agent who gained access to the defendants� house under false pretenses  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Case]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As we expected, the Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal by Joel Tenenbaum's lawyers to jump straight to the Constitutional questions concerning the ridiculous statutory damages awards for sharing a couple dozen songs. While reports are claiming   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Greek Court Orders ISP Blockades of �Pirate� Music Sites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following in the footsteps of other courts around Europe, a Greek court has ordered the country�s ISPs to start censoring sites that allegedly infringe copyright. The blockades, which were requested by music rights organizations against two specific sites  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft launches social network So.cl, claims not to compete with Facebook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While Facebook is busy reveling over its recent IPO, Microsoft has quietly taken its own social network, So.cl, out of beta and opened it up to users around the globe. So.cl (pronounced �social�) is technically not a Facebook competitor. The experimental   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[thepiratebay is down in many parts of the world]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Right now, thepiratebay is down for many people, in many parts of the world.We're not sure why yet. It appears to be a routing issue again, the sitestill works from some  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to a recent investigation by the Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning, Sweden�s telecommunications giant Teliasonera is the latest Western company revealed to be colluding with authoritarian regimes by selling them high-tech surveillance  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet scammers prey on the love-struck and lonely]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You're not the kind of person who would ever fall for a "relationship scammer" on the Internet, of course, so you might wonder whether anyone actually sends tens of thousands of dollars in gifts to a romantic partner they have met only online. The answer   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alleged MPAA DDoS attacks spark retaliatory cyber attacks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems that a spate of recent distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks against sites such as The Pirate Bay and other filesharing portals �- which are reported to have been generated by an Indian company at the behest of the Motion Picture   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA: Piracy is NOT Theft After All]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For decades the entertainment industry used the word �theft� to refer to piracy.  Most famous is probably the �You Wouldn�t Steal a Car� ad. But virtually all press releases of outfits such as the MPAA refer to stealing or theft.  All of a sudden  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Music Pirates Will Be Unmasked, Despite Band�s Protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite protests from the band All Shall Perish, the identities of 80 alleged file-sharers of their music are set to be handed over to a Panama-based copyright troll. The manager of the band says he is shocked and angry that the troll had obtained the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google purchase of Motorola Mobility OKd by China]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close.  But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: That Google's Android operating system for mobile   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[comcast no longer has an interest to serve their isp customers, theres more money being content providers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast completes NBC Universal merger  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Free Ride Is Over For Streaming Video]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast�s plans to do away with its 250 GB data cap and charge users based upon usage marks the end of an era for cable TV providers, and for the online video industry. No longer will users be able to endlessly stream all the content their hearts   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China to be Asia-Pacific's biggest IT consumer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[China will soon surpass Japan to be the biggest consumer of IT products and services in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report. China's expenditure on IT is gradually approaching Japan's, and it will hit $173 billion in 2013, about   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Support for file sharing remains high in Sweden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[File sharing is still going strong in Sweden. Levels have barely been affected by new, harsh laws, and most Swedes have no problem with file sharing, a new study from Lund University shows. Following 2009�s introduction of anti-file sharing IPRED  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Broadband Service in the U.S. Is So Awful]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The average U.S. household has to pay an exorbitant amount of money for an Internet connection that the rest of the industrial world would find mediocre. According to a recent report by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Call of Duty Hacker Gets 18 Months in Jail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A British man who distributed a Trojan disguised as a patch for the game 'Call of Duty' has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison.  "Lewys Martin, 20, of Deal in Kent, used the malware to harvest bank login credentials, credit card details   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anti-Piracy Outfits Launch Attack on BitTorrent Protocol]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks alarm bells sounded at Poland�s Computer Emergency Response Team when it was discovered that an unknown entity is sending massive amounts of forged data packets and posing a threat to BitTorrent users worldwide. A detailed  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Banning The Pirate Bay The Best Advertising A Country Can Give Its Local Pirate Parties?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the official blockade of access to The Pirate Bay in the UK, combined with the UK Pirate Party's decision to set up a proxy for users, it appears that the UK Pirate Party's website is rocketing up the traffic charts. Given the growing success of The   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[WikiLeaks was faced with 3 days of DDoS attacks, but the website is now up and running. Many papers reported that a WikiLeaks cable led to the hanging of an Iranian kick-boxer. This is blatantly false. WikiLeaks sent out a series of tweets on the issue  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[There are now 104 Piratebay Proxies]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-05-18e/There_are_now_104_Piratebay_Proxies.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[As of now, the list on piratereverse has 104 dedicated proxies for thepiratebay.There are some proxies out there that aren't even on the list yet, and http://piraterever  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Record companies score infringement victory over "Russian Facebook"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian social media site vKontakte�a platform with 135 million accounts across Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus�has lost its court appeal seeking to overturn an earlier ruling against it stating that the company was infringing copyright   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Would Google Offer $ 1B For Music Rights? Because The Return Could Be Much Bigger]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that Google's music locker service is struggling, but the company still seems committed to making it a success. To do so, they'll need to do big things, and break through the barriers that the record industry places in their path.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BitTorrent Inc Takes Legal Action Against Download Scammers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the BitTorrent protocol and the world famous uTorrent client, has taken legal action against a company attempting to trade on the com  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI 'looking at' law making Web sites wiretap-ready, director says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FBI director Robert Mueller confirmed that the bureau has renewed its push for a new Internet wiretapping law, which CNET reported two weeks ago. In an appearance this week on Capitol Hill, Mueller downplayed privacy concerns, saying the FBI's wiretap   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ethan Kaplan's Twitter Rant]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-05-18c/Ethan_Kaplans_Twitter_Rant.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, Ethan Kaplan (former label exec) had a bit to say about the currentstate of the music business in the form of a twitter rant. It all startedwhile he responded to   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Level3 engineers give their take on the Comcast-Netflix dispute]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Xfinity announced their Xbox 360 application and said that the data usage would not be counted against our bandwidth caps, we became curious. We wanted to understand more about how the traffic entered our homes and how it might be treated   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK ISPs must block thepiratebay by May 30. But one ISP is holding on until the very last minute]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The five ISPs forced by U.K.�s High Court to impose a block on its customers accessing The Pirate Bay have less two weeks to comply with the order, or face charges of being in contempt of court.  The block must be imposed within 30 days from the time the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AOL Music Poll: Who's the Most Influential Lady in Pop Music Today]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After a month long Musical March Madness, in which we asked AOL Music readers to vote on the most influential woman in pop music, we finally have a winner! It was a race full of heated battles, but fans of Avril Lavigne helped the Canadian songstress   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top Mobile Phone Maker Confirms Backdoor in Mobile Phone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the world�s top mobile phone handset makers has acknowledged the existence of a backdoor in one of its models.  ZTE, which is based in China and produces the ScoreM, which sells as a Google Android phone, admitted that it had placed a backdoor   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon says users can avoid data change by paying full phone price]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. telco allows customers who do not take handset subsidies to keep unlimited data plans when they upgrade to LTE. Verizon Wireless, after announcing it would seek to phase out grandfathered unlimited data for millions of its customers, said there   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How TPP Would Put Massive Burdens On Those Accused Of Infringement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Due to massive secrecy and a near total lack of transparency by the US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, we don't know for sure what the US is negotiating "in our name" as it advances through the negotiation stages of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trade Chat on Acta]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[facebook]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[It�s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To jailbreak or not to jailbreak? That was the question on everybody�s mind Thursday as copyright regulators, content creators and digital rights groups battled over whether Americans should have the right to tinker with the devices that they buy.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Popularity of an Assange run for Senate could leave Greens with envy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, would stand a good chance of securing a Senate seat, most likely at the expense of the Greens, a new poll has found. But he would have a better chance in NSW than his native Victoria. The poll of 1000 voters  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[http://tpb.fl.ax/]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[http://tpb.fl.ax/  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Ban Rockets Pirate Party Website Into The Big Time]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The court-ordered ISP blockade of The Pirate Bay immediately backfired earlier this month when it massively raised awareness and caused the site to receive millions of extra visitors. Now, and as a direct result of the Pirate Bay ban, the website  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook shares open at $42 as it begins trading on Nasdaq]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook began trading shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange this morning, opening at just over $42, instantly up 10% on the initial offer price, before dropping back to just over $40.  With the initial offer price of $38, Facebook's shares were   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Rise 10% as Trading Begins]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NYT NEWS ALERT: Facebook Shares Rise 10% as Trading Begins  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Considering Allowing DVD-Encryption Cracking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators considered testimony Wednesday here at UCLA on whether to allow citizens and filmmakers to legally crack DVD encryption meant to protect them from being copied.  Filmmakers, video mixers and others have petitioned the U.S. Copyright   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Six Strikes Anti Piracy Scheme Delayed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Soon the file-sharing habits of millions of BitTorrent users in the United States will be monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA, and all the major ISP  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon fumbles on �kill unlimited data plans� damage control]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, at the J.P. Morgan 40th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Verizon EVP and CFO Frank Shammo mentioned that his company would be forcing customers away from their grandfathered unlimited data plans. The decision is purely financial  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay Creates alternative IP for Proxies, Redirects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[o help people circumvent recent European blockades against thepiratebay, the Piratebay is willing to begin playing wack-a-mole with IPs, the same way they did with Itailian and Belgian DNS blocks. A new IP has been setup, that is not currently blocked in   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK: Open Standards Consultation Nearing Close]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The final round-table for the government's Open Standards Consultation is now open for booking - consider attending as much is at stake for UK ICT procurement.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay was Not ddos'd, wikileaks was]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The politicians are creating new diseases]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We have many sad "letter diseases" in the community, ranging from ADHD to HIV. They are unpleasant for those affected, and in some cases lead to death.   The newest are called IPRED, FRA, ACTA and recently detected also DLD. Even though they do not affect  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some of the best things in life are on youtube]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Exporting copyright: Inside the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The scene last week at the Intercontinental Dallas Hotel looked like any generic corporate event held in any generic hotel ballroom�until the protesters crashed the party.  Trade officials from countries scattered around the Pacific Rim mingled   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bradley Manning reaches 700 days]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to wikileaks, Bradley Manning has now been captive for 700 days without trial.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP poised to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday. The looming cuts cited by   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The politicians are creating new diseases]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We have many sad 'letter diseases' in the community, ranging from ADHD to HIV. They are unpleasant for those affected by it, and in some cases lead to death.The newest a  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did Someone Attack thepiratebay for Stupid Reason.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If I wanted to mess with anonymous why wouldn't I ddos one of their news sites, such as http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/ or http://anonpaste.tk/. Or hackinto one of their  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Government of France Consults Public Over Net Neutrality]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The French Parliament and Government is having a Public consultation from May 16 to June 20, on net neutrality. There is an open invitation for any citizen to send their oppinion and ideas to Parliament.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House's veto promise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped down as Obama�s cybersecurity coordinator.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CEO who rebelled against Microsoft over Windows licensing backs down]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CEO of a virtual desktop company who dared Microsoft to sue him by launching a service that would intentionally violate Windows licensing rules said today he is going to back down and issue a public apology.  Guise Bule, CEO of tuCloud, was  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Torrent Sites Blocked in New Delhi]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just says "Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders" Really sad state of affairs  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[google to buy 4chan (lol)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a friendly reminder not to listen to, like, 90% of professional tech "analysts." From the end of a legitimate-looking newswire story, on a legitimate site: Meanwhile, Google continues to work hard to stay ahead, finding new and growing areas to   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay Creates alternative IP for Proxies, Redirects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To help people circumvent recent European blockades against thepiratebay, the Piratebay is willing to begin playing wack-a-mole with IPs, the same way they did with Itailian and Belgian DNS blocks. A new IP has been setup, that is not currently   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyber security: U.S. mulls blocking China Mobile license]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Concerned about cyber security and possible spying, U.S. officials are considering denying China Mobile�s license for providing international information service in the United States.  Officials from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay Creates alternative IP for Proxies, Redirects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To help people circumvent recent European blockades against thepiratebay,the Piratebay is willing to begin playing wack-a-mole with IPs, the sameway they did with Itaili  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay DDos Returns (updated)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As crazy groups try to claim credit for a recent ddos attack on the piratebay, and anxious news sites post pre-maturely that they know who is behind it; the second wave of the attack begins. This time the attack is bigger, some of the proxies that worked   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ddos'ers take attention away from Holland, UK Censorship. Could damage the internet forever]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the Piratebay ddos attacks continue, people are scrambling around on new proxies to regain access to the site. The support of the proxy networkmay be a testament to a  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[World's first Wikipedia town to launch in Wales]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A small Welsh town where English King Henry V was born is about to make history again by becoming the world's first "Wikipedia town." Wikimedia UK �which works to support, develop and promote Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Post office to begin closing mail processing centers this summer, saying it can no longer wait]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.  At a news briefing, Postmaster General   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piratebay DDos Returns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As crazy groups try to claim credit for a recent ddos attack on the piratebay,and anxious news sites post pre-maturely that they know who is behind it;the second wave of  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Facebook Censoring Your Comments?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A strange thing happened to Robert Scoble, a fan of all-things-social, over the weekend when he tried to comment on a Facebook post. Facebook blocked his comment outright, calling it "irrelevant or inappropriate."  It's no secret that Facebook monitors   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MIT's Latest User Interface Employs Gravity-Defying, Levitating Metal Orbs]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, BT and the British telecom regulator Ofcom reached an agreement which forced the former telco monopoly to make its copper wiring available to independent ISPs, who could then serve individual homes across the United Kingdom. Under this  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comcast suspends data caps... for now]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast is getting rid of its 250GB monthly bandwidth caps as it trials new approaches to traffic management. First imposed in 2008, the caps were designed to limit usage by the most data-hungry Comcast customers, a segment the company said consisted of   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Swedish Supreme Court mulls manga child porn appeal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The highly publicized last appeal of Simon Lundstr�m, a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes, was brought up in Sweden�s Supreme Court (H�gsta Domstolen) on Wednesday.   [..]]]></description>
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