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<title><![CDATA[Verizon would end �century of regulation� by killing wireline phone, says NY AG]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman this week accused Verizon of trying to "depart from a century of telephone service regulation" by ending wireline telephone service in a part of Fire Island devastated by Hurricane Sandy in October, 2012.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bolivia plane incident infuriates Latin America]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European rerouting of the Bolivian presidential plane over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was aboard ignited outrage Wednesday among Latin American leaders who called it a stunning violation of national sovereignty and   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anna Chapman proposes marriage to Edward Snowden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rest of the world may not want him, but NSA leaker Edward Snowden has at least one potential taker: Anna Chapman. The ex-spy tweeted yesterday, �Snowden, will you marry me?!�  The former Russian spy may have sympathy for the man who spilled top-secret  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snowden still in Moscow despite Bolivian plane drama]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bolivia accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to "kidnap" its president, Evo Morales, after his plane was denied permission to fly over some European countries on suspicion he was taking fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You can now donate to WikiLeaks with your credit card via Iceland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, WikiLeaks announced that Valitor, its payment processor in Iceland, has resumed accepting credit card-based donations for the famed leaking site.  Back in April 2013, the Icelandic Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling finding that   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following the introduction of restrictions against file-sharing services, Mastercard and Visa have now started to take action against VPN providers. This week, Swedish payment provider Payson cut access to anonymizing services after being ordered to do so  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rampant Apache website attack hits visitors with highly malicious software]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A campaign that forces sites running the Apache Web server to install highly malicious software on visitor's PCs has compromised more than 40,000 Web addresses in the past nine months, 15,000 of them in the month of May alone.  The figures  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[�Three Strikes� ISP Shuts Down Piracy-Busting Music Service]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was a service that came along as part of an ISP�s deal with the music industry to fight online piracy, but just two years later Eircom�s MusicHub is being closed down.  At the close of 2010, Irish ISP Eircom detailed a new service it would soon begin   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snowden threatens new U.S. leaks, asks numerous countries for asylum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago, blasting the Obama administration and saying he remained free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity.    [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snowden has asked for asylum in Russia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.  Interfax cited Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian Foreign Ministry's consular  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: NSA spied on EU institutions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the US National Security Agency bugged institutions of the European Union. The magazine cited documents provided by whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Spiegel reported in its Saturday  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hard drive-wiping malware part of new wave of threats targeting South Korea]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Amid a new wave of attacks hitting government and media networks in South Korea, researchers have uncovered yet another piece of malware that destroys sensitive hard drive data and renders computers unusable.  Trojan.Korhigh, as the new wiper program is  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum: Correa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the United States had asked him not to grant asylum for former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in a "cordial" telephone conversation he held with Vice President Joe Biden.  Correa said he vowed  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 26:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[KickassTorrents Blocks Proxies in Advertising and Search Engine Dispute]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While The Pirate Bay remains the most-proxied torrent site of all, it appears that the world�s second largest torrent site won�t take that crown any time soon. KickassTorrents says it has taken the decision to block some censorship-busting proxy  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 26:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eighteen-year-old Justin Carter of Austin, Texas was arguing with a friend on Facebook about League of Legends back in February. After being called 'insane,' he responded with 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kiwi ISP Slingshot lets users bypass copyright geo-blocking to access services like Netflix]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Zealand ISP Slingshot is letting customers hide their location so they can access overseas online services that would normally be restricted to specific markets.  Slingshot markets the �Global Mode� service as one that allows visitors to New Zealand   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Army restricts access to Guardian website over secrets in NSA leak stories]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper�s website has been filtered and restricted for its personnel. The policy is due to classified documents described in detail in the stories.  Gordon Van Vleet, spokesman for the Army   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ecuador: Snowden travel doc issued from London embassy �has no validity�]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As far as anyone knows, Edward Snowden remains in bureaucratic limbo inside the international transit zone in Moscow�s Sheremetyevo Airport. Despite scouring the area for days, reporters have yet to lay eyes on the famed NSA leaker. In a new wrinkle  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Putin says no to US request to extradite Snowden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying Snowden is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The United States Seized Confidential Mail Records Of European Parliament]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I can�t say I�m surprised � but we�ve got the United States and its security bureaucrats digging through our e-mail in the European Parliament. Mashable reveals that the United States has demanded information from Google about the communications of two  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia defiant as U.S. raises pressure over Snowden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russia defied White House pressure on Monday to expel former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to the United States before he flees Moscow on the next stop of his globe-crossing escape from U.S. prosecution. Snowden, whose exposure of secret U.S.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What should have been a hushed scene of 800 Chinese students sitting their university entrance exams erupted into siege warfare after invigilators tried to stop them cheating. The relatively small city of Zhongxiang in Hubei province has always performed   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snowden, in Russia, Seeks Asylum in Ecuador]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The American authorities scrambled Sunday to figure out how to catch Edward J. Snowden, the former national security contractor accused of espionage, as he led them on an international chase, frustrating the Obama administration and threatening to strain   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With �Precision� Takedown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A little over a month ago the MPAA started submitting DMCA requests to Google on behalf of the major movie studios but unlike most other copyright holders the movie group is not going for automated high-volume notices. Instead the MPAA appears to be  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snowden says US targets included China cell phones]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A former National Security Agency contractor says that U.S. hacking targets in China included the nation's mobile-phone companies and two universities hosting extensive Internet traffic hubs in the latest allegations as Washington pushes Hong Kong to  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AntiPiracy Group Not So Sure About Piracy Claims]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Enforcement of copyright is essential according to some, but the reasons why are often based more on emotion than fact. One lobby group, in an attempt to break into the �fact� sphere, is having such a hard time finding any, they�ve decided to crowdsource   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unheard music to be broadcast for 24 hours in remote Scottish forest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If a 24-hour radio broadcast happens in a Scottish forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?  At the end of August, an FM transmitter will be set up in the middle of the Galloway Forest to broadcast music from dozens of artists  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Anti-Piracy Group Will Monitor File-Sharers and Block All Major Torrent Sites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A brand new law designed to make it easier to chase down file-sharers and have sites blocked at the ISP level is set to be exploited to the full when it comes into effect in just a few days time. Rightsholders including IFPI and representatives from the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mt. Gox suspends US dollar withdrawls �for the next two weeks�]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mt. Gox, the world�s largest Bitcoin-based exchange, announced early Thursday morning that it has suspended US dollar withdrawals �for the next two weeks.�  The Japan-based firm is currently under investigation by the United States Department of Homeland   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aaron�s Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since late January 2013, a California congresswoman has pushed for legal reforms that would revise the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). She dubbed these proposed changes �Aaron�s Law� because the new law�s revisions (PDF) are in honor of the late  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gottfrid Swartholm Warg � known also as Anakata � was on June 20th sentenced to two years imprisonment for data breaches and aggravated fraud by the District Court of Nacka in his native Sweden. It is unclear at this time wether the decision will be  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China asks U.S. to explain Internet surveillance]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community. Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google launches Internet-beaming balloons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[KAT.ph Goes Down Following Domain Issues, Switches to Kickass.to]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few moments ago KickassTorrents disappeared from the Internet prompting the usual flurry of worried emails. While these instances of downtime are usually down to minor technical issues that tend to sort themselves out, there are signs that something a   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[France Disconnects First File-Sharer From the Internet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[France is seen as the pioneer of so-called �three strikes� anti-piracy legislation, in which repeated file-sharing offenders are disconnected from the Internet. This week, following the issuing of millions of warning notices, the law has finally resulted   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden, the leaker who gave us the evidence of US government spying on its people is under threat of being extradited back to the U.S. to face prosecution. Some people in Congress, including Republican Peter King (R-NY), are calling for  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNITED STATES PIRATE PARTY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT SPYING; DEMANDS NSA DELIVER TRANSPARENCY, PHONE RECORDS]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Warner Bros: We�re Fining File-Sharers Who Use Non Six-Strike ISPs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customers of ISPs not involved in the so-called �Six Strikes� anti-piracy scheme in the United States might be under the impression that warning notices are something they can avoid. However, TorrentFreak has learned that Warner Bros. are specifically  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA Says Court Action Could Give Google Legal Basis to Delist Sites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UK Minister for Culture plus representatives from the MPAA, BPI, Google and four major ISPs met for a roundtable discussion on the issue of online piracy last month. The minutes of the meeting suggest that not only are the parties keen for site   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie4K Clones Movie2K, Pirate Party & Police Sucked into Controversy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mystery surrounding the demise of Movie2K.to and the apparent reincarnation of the site at Movie4K.to has taken on yet another twist. Last week TorrentFreak informed the German Pirate Party (to their apparent surprise) that their DNS servers  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosecutor: Manning let secrets into enemy hands]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pfc. Bradley Manning put U.S. military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, prosecutors said Monday as the Army intelligence analyst went on trial over leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Manning's lawyers countered  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sky Broadband Starts Blocking Pirate Bay Proxies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK Internet provider Sky Broadband has quietly started to restrict access to a wide range of proxy sites through which subscribers could reach The Pirate Bat, Kat.ph, Movie2k and other blocked sites. The new blockades go beyond the initial court orders  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trial of U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case to get under way]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The American soldier accused of providing more than 700,000 secret documents to the WikiLeaks website goes on trial in Maryland on Monday charged with the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Private First Class Bradley Manning  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes For File-Sharing Fails to Halt Music Sales Decline]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For years, France�s adoption of the so-called graduated response for dealing with illicit file-sharing has been trumpeted by entertainment companies as a success story to be replicated around the globe. The only true barometer of success, however, is the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Mail reportedly loses key customer following mass hack attack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BT, the UK-based telecommunications company with more than 18 million customers, is dumping Yahoo Mail following a successful hacking campaign that hijacked e-mail accounts and used them to send spam, according to published reports.  BT's plans come four   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[CNet reports that a U.S. District Court Judge has rejected Google's attempt to fight 19 National Security Letters, which are used by the FBI to gather information on users without a warrant. Quoting: 'The litigation taking place behind closed doors  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand High Court has ordered the police to inspect all digital information illegally seized last year from Kim Dotcom�s mansion, and return everything not directly related to the ongoing prosecution. The judge further ruled that the FBI must   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gov�t agrees to destroy data seized in political interrogation at airport]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US government "has agreed to destroy all data" Homeland Security agents obtained in a border search of a Bradley Manning supporter, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced yesterday.  The settlement (PDF) arises from a November 2010 search  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rapidgator Not Responsible for Pirating Users, Court Lifts ISP Blockade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of a criminal investigation by Italian authorities, 27 file-sharing related sites had their domains blocked by local ISPs last month. Rapidgator, one of the largest cyberlockers on the Internet, was among the targeted sites and chose to appeal  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Arrested Development Pirates Skip Netflix Out of Habit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the past two days more than 175,000 people have pirated episodes of the revived cult series Arrested Development. While the numbers don�t come close to those of hit series Game of Thrones, it�s remarkable to see how many of the downloaders come from   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google: Pirate Site Blocking Just Leads To a Game of Whac-a-Mole]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[During a debate in London last night, Google�s UK policy manager said that he believes that blocking �pirate� sites only leads to a game of whac-a-mole, whereas going after them as a business is more effective. The debate�s key theme was whether it would   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to �Margaritaville,� the Most Lucrative Song Ever]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2080.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cut the ribbon on Thursday outside Atlantic City�s newest tourist attraction: Margaritaville. The $35 million, 40,000-square-foot complex houses two restaurants, multiple bars, a beach-themed casino, and several breezy,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Founder Denies Hacking Charges in Court]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2079.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Appearing in court for a second week, Gottfrid Svartholm says he had no part in hacking Swedish IT company Logica. The Pirate Bay founder denies being the person behind chat logs presented as evidence by the prosecution and maintains that other individual  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese hackers breach key US weapons designs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese hackers have compromised the designs of some of America�s most sensitive and advanced weapons systems�including vital parts of the nation�s missile defenses, fighter aircraft and warships�the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Post cited a   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Blessing Propels New BitTorrent Tracker to Great Heights]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2077.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks a new Demonoid-inspired standalone tracker entered the BitTorrent ecosystem with a bang. Blessed by The Pirate Bay, Demonii has quickly become one of the most used BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. TorrentFreak decided to catch up with   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 26:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Isn�t Down Completely, Just Having a Few Issues]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2076.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Twitter and Facebook, not to mention the TorrentFreak inbox, are currently alive with complaints that The Pirate Bay has been blocked, taken down, censored or otherwise silenced. Actually the site works perfectly for us but is clearly experiencing  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RIAA Makes Drastic Employee Cuts as Revenue Plummets]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New tax records reveal that the RIAA has made heavy employee cuts after revenue dropped to a new low. Over the past two years the major record labels have cut back their membership dues from $33.6 to $23.6 million. RIAA staff plunged from 107 to 60 worker  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/16040</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China�s People�s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2074.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that Hollywood is trying to take down as many pirated movies as they can, but their targeting of a Creative Commons Pirate Bay documentary is something new. Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fighting Censorship, Proxies Gear Up to Unblock More Torrent Sites]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2073.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week TorrentFreak received information to suggest that the recording industry is planning a fresh trip to the UK High Court to have even more torrent sites blocked at the ISP level. If they�re successful there will only be one torrent site   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Banking Privacy More Important than Copyright Enforcement, Court Rules]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2072.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In its quest to identify the owner of a file-sharing site, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN pressured one of the largest banks in the Netherlands to hand over his or her personal details. In a decision this morning the Amsterdam Court said that while BREIN  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Parliament to Vote Green Light to Next ACTA?]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2070.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[On 22 May, the European Parliament will vote in plenary on a resolution on the proposed EU-US trade agreement, the �Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement� (TAFTA), also know as �Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership� (TTIP). After the ACTA, SOPA  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Buys a Quantum Computer]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/16039</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds seize money from Dwolla account belonging to top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2068.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has apparently shut down a key mobile payments account associated with Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange.  Chris Coyne, the co-founder of online dating service OKCupid, tweeted out an e-mail he received from  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2067.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A Microsoft server accesses URLs sent in Skype chat messages, even if they are HTTPS URLs and contain account information. A reader of Heise publications notified Heise Security (link to German website, Google translation). They replicated the observation  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EUP 2014]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/16038</link>
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<description><![CDATA[People learn by copying other people. All the knowledge we have today, all the progress we�ve made, are based on this simple fact � we copy.  For thousands of years we�ve improved our possibilities to collect and distribute information. There�s always   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2066.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Peter Sunde has announced he will run in the European Parliament elections next year. Sunde, the former spokesman for The Pirate Bay, will participatefor the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party. Sunde has yet to sit out a prison sentence for his previous   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[United States Government Shows The World It Doesn't Understand The Internet Again]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2064.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The United States Department of Defense has �claimed ownership� of CAD drawings of a plastic, printable pistol. In doing so, they apparently believe they can stop the files from existing. The result is obviously the complete opposite, which calls  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2063.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A few days after the blueprints for the world�s first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to pull them down, citing possible arms trafficking violations. The blueprints, however, are still   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Unlucky� File-Sharer Receives Tougher Sentence on Appeal]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2062.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Last year a man from Sweden became the first BitTorrent user in the country to be found guilty of sharing multiple movies. After a complaint by the prosecutor the case went to appeal and has now concluded with an ever-so-slightly increased fine.  In 2010   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�New� Demonoid D2.vu Quickly Shutdown For Hosting Malware]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2060.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[During the past few hours TorrentFreak has been absolutely overwhelmed with hundreds of emails asking about the possible resurrection of the infamous Demonoid BitTorrent tracker. After tracking down the owner of the new domain but being met with silence,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Piracy Warning Notice Talks Grind to a Halt]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2059.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Talks between Australian Internet service providers and rightsholders aimed at finding a way through the thorny issue of online piracy stumbled last year. Now they�ve ground to a halt.  When three years of discussions yielded no results, in November 2008   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Megaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2058.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Megaupload�s legal team are not restricting their fight with the U.S. Government only to the courts. Today they published a detailed white paper accusing the White House of selling out to corporate interests, particularly Hollywood. �The message is clear.  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BitTorrent Sync Clocks Up a Petabyte of Data Transfers in Two Weeks]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2057.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks after launch, BitTorrent Inc�s new sharing tool is already clocking up some impressive numbers.  BitTorrent Sync is a new tool that allows users to securely sync folders across multiple devices using the BitTorrent protocol.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[File-Sharing Forum Admin Jailed For Six Months]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following an initial investigation four years ago, a case against a file-sharing forum admin has just concluded with fines and a six month jail sentence.  In 2009, French anti-piracy group ALPA launched an investigation into Infernio Advitam, a 10,000   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal Judge Fires Phasers, Photons at Prenda for $80k Damages]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2055.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Directly Blames China�s Military for Cyberattacks]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/16037</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China�s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map �military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate passes Internet sales tax in final vote, 69-27]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2054.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The US Senate passed an online sales tax in a vote this afternoon after a heated final round of debate. A small group of anti-tax Republicans, as well as Democratic Senators from states without sales tax like Montana and Oregon, argued vociferously  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Announcement of 'churnalism detector' gets furiously churned]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2053.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA["Churnalism" - it's terrible stuff, isn't it? When so-called journalists pick up a press release or announcement from an organisation and simply reprocess it (perhaps even cutting and pasting chunks or the whole thing verbatim), adding nothing and doing  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2052.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload�s motion to dismiss the case against the company. Megaupload�s lawyers have pointed out that the Department of Justice is trying to change the law to legitimize the destruction of  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[At Least 8% of All Pirate Bay Traffic Now Provided By Proxy Services]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2051.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[As anti-piracy activity and subsequent court rulings attempt to cut off users from The Pirate Bay, those affected by the blockades are taking the setback in their stride. There are hundreds of proxy-type services facilitating access to the supposedly  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA Lawyer�s Computer Account Used in Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Case]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2050.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[It�s been revealed that one of the computer accounts used regularly by the alleged hackers in the ongoing Gottfrid Svartholm case belonged to Monique Wadsted, a lawyer who represented the entertainment companies in the original Pirate Bay trial. Accounts   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay and Antigua Explore Launch of Authorized �Pirate Site�]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2049.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Government of Antigua will soon start accepting bids for their WTO authorized pirate site, to punish the United States for refusing to lift a trade blockade. The new service will offer the public access to pirated movies, music and software without   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LOL Money Me]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2013-05-03/LOL_Money_Me.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[So, incase you haven't noticed... this site's gone to shit and no one'sbeen running anything. I've been neglecting it, and busy... and latelyinstead of posting here, I'v  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Norwegian Parliament Approves Extreme Version Of SOPA; Ignores All Sorts Of Rights If Someone Yells Copyright]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2048.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I was in Norway for Nordic Music Week and got to meet with a number of people from all sides of the music industry there. It was very interesting to see how many of them were adapting to the changing environment. It was quite encouraging   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Warner Bros. Sued For �Stealing� Internet Memes]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2047.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Warner Bros. and 5th Cell Media, the makers of the Scribblenauts game, have been sued for copyright and trademark infringement.  The creators of the �Keyboard Cat� and �Nyan Cat� memes have files a lawsuit in a federal court in California, claiming  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Moves to .SX as Prosecutor Files Motion to Seize Domains]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2046.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Swedish authorities have filed a motion at the District Court of Stockholm on behalf of the entertainment industries, demanding the seizure of two Pirate Bay domain names. In addition to the Swedish-based .se domain the motion also includes the new   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Swedish Authorities Target Pirate Bay Again, Police Question Founder in Prison]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2045.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was visited in prison last week by police questioning him as part of a new criminal investigation into The Pirate Bay. The case is said to involve several publishing houses as well as Swedish anti-piracy group  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Founder on Trial Next Month Facing Societal Damage Claims]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2044.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[After being charged with instances of hacking earlier this month, Gottfrid Svartholm will now go on trial in May. The Pirate Bay co-founder denies the charges and says that evidence found on his computer was placed there remotely via the Internet. In the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case]]></title>
<link>http://activepolitic.com:82/external/2043.html</link>
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<description><![CDATA[TorrentFreak reports on an internet piracy case from Finland, which saw four men found guilty and fined �45,000. During the trial, the defense attorney took note of inconsistencies in log files used as evidence against the men. An investigator for   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Ambassador Pleads: Stop Pirating Game of Thrones, It�s Stealing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just when the Game of Thrones file-sharing controversy had begun settling into the background, the most senior figure yet has weighed in on the debate. Marking UN World Book and Copyright Day and citing TorrentFreak stats to on how many times the show has  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Proxy Now Included in Secret ISP Blocklist]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the UK a range of sites are now blocked including The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy. But despite very public High Court orders the true extent of the censorship is unknown as the actual URL blocking list is being kept out of the public   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After The Pirate Bay�s new Greenland-based domains were suspended earlier this month, the world�s largest file-sharing site has found a safe haven in Iceland. From now on TPB can be reached via ThePirateBay.is without the imminent threat of another domain  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police Flex Muscles Again, Arrest Admin of Sweden�s #2 BitTorrent Site]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After being targeted by a police raid on a web host previously owned by Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, Sweden�s #2 torrent site took just three weeks to come back online. Taunting the authorities with their return, Tankafetast rented cinemas an  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Japan are so worried about their inability to tackle cybercrime that they are asking the country's ISPs to block the use of Tor.  According to The Mainichi, the National Police Agency (NPA, a bit like the Japanese FBI) is going to urge ISPs  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[File-Sharers Sued For Wrong Movie Title, Producer Outraged]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A horror film producer has slammed a copyright troll lawsuit which targets alleged file-sharers said to have downloaded his movie. The lawsuit, which takes aim at Internet account holders in the hope they�ll pay multi-thousand dollar settlements  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[isoHunt Verdict Endangers Innovation, Google Tells Court]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last month BitTorrent site isoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA and since then several rightsholders have used this verdict to their advantage in other copyright infringement cases. Google has also been targeted with the ruling in its case against   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.    For the second year in a row,  the House voted to approve CISPA,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, ePARASITE, ACTA, TPP: What is Congress Smoking?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2012, I was moderating a panel on the major technological legislative acts that were pending or had been proposed in the last year. On the panel were two lawyers from the copyright field, and two computer security experts. Since the resurrection of  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[twitter to drop flattr support]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Best Of "Can Someone Photoshop The Sun Between My Fingers?"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few days ago on reddit a user posted a picture and asked a simple request. "can someone photoshop the sun between my fingers." Well that unleashed a floodgate of responses and now you have the latest internet sensation. Enjoy htese laudable  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Decide What Happens to Your Google Account When You Die]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What happens to your e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and other digital accounts after you die has long been a question in the tech world. Some have even started to create digital estates to pass on the keys to their digital lives to an executor or trustee. But   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Google Fiber Is Cable's Biggest Nightmare]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What's faster than a speeding cable Internet connection, and able to leap between mobile computing and old-school TV in a single bound? If you ask Google, the answer's simple: lightning-fast fiber-optic Internet service.  As it stands, broad access   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains (About to be) Seized]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay has received indications that the Swedish authorities might soon attempt to seize the site�s .se domain. In anticipation of this move, today the world�s largest file-sharing site switched to Greenland�s .gl domain. The move comes with a set  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Time Warner Cable Systematically Looking To Shut Down Parodist's Accounts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, this won't come as a huge surprise. Twice this week we've written about a pair of parodists who have been mocking Time Warner Cable and its customer service, first with a video in which they pretend to be TWC Customer Service reps asking people how   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent. Google refused  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The digital arms trade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT IS a type of software sometimes described as �absolute power� or �God�. Small wonder its sales are growing. Packets of computer code, known as �exploits�, allow hackers to infiltrate or even control computers running software in which  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I'll Download Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay, Iron Sky Director Tells HBO]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Game of Thrones smashes download records this week, an extra act of sharing will soon come from a most unusual source. Sick and tired of the poor quality offered by HBO�s official streaming service, the director of movie Iron Sky says he�s going to  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Proxy Owner's Bank Account Seized by Hollywood Group]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following a request from Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN, a Dutch bailiff has seized the bank account of a Pirate Bay proxy operator. The owner of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co has been involved in a legal battle with BREIN over the past month  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With a million downloads on BitTorrent in less than a day, the season premiere of Game of Thrones is breaking records on multiple fronts. Never before has there been a torrent with so many people sharing a file at the same time, more than 160,000   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ReDigi Loses Suit Over Reselling of Digital Music]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in New York has dealt a blow to the nascent business of reselling digital goods like music and e-books, ruling that a small company�s secondary market for digital music infringes on the copyrights controlled by record companies.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lascaux Cave Painter Descendents to Recover Royalties]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lawyers representing the 631 million known descendants of the painters of the famous Lascaux Cave paintings announced today a far-reaching plan to recover royalties from the more than 70 years of modern-era unlicensed reproduction of their ancestors' work  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HBO Says Game of Thrones Piracy Is "a Compliment"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[HBO programming president Michael Lombardo not only says that illegal downloading of Game of Thrones isn't hurting the show, but goes far as to say it's 'a compliment' and worries about the image quality of pirated copies  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Texas Court Confirms You Can�t Patent Math]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a victory for open source and common sense, a federal judge has thrown out a patent suit against the Linux-based operating system on the grounds that the patent claims a mathematical algorithm. The case is encouraging both for the result and because  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay is now the most-visited file-sharing site on the Internet, taking over the lead from prominent one-click hosting sites such as 4Shared and Mediafire. After a spectacular rise in the early years of this decade cyberlockers are quickly losing  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom.  Easing yourself into the week, you idly thumb  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Funded hacktivism� or cyber-terrorists, AmEx attackers have big bankroll]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On March 28, American Express' website went offline for at least two hours during a distributed denial of service attack. A group calling itself "the cyber-fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam" claimed responsibility for the attack, which began at about 3:00p  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Pirate� Site Ad Transparency Report Loses Credibility]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The third edition of the Annenberg Innovation Lab�s Ad Transparency Report is now unofficially doing the rounds. Google, Quantcast and Open X are praised for making �strong moves� to block sites that receive a lot of DMCA notices but the government  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[KickassTorrents Circumvents Censors With New Ka.tt Domain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a surprise move the popular BitTorrent site KickassTorrents moved to a new domain today. The immediate effect of the switch is that after the ISP blockade last week, some UK users are once again able to access the site. This is the second domain  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[According to new Justice Department e-mails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and published on Wednesday, federal investigators have been routinely using �stingrays" to catch bad guys. A stingray is a  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The most recent dispute between The Pirate Bay and a Finnish anti-piracy group appears to be over. CIAPC, known locally as TTVK, lifted the code of The Pirate Bay�s home page in order to promote their own anti-piracy message but were called out over their  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Luring Young Web Warriors Is a U.S. Priority. It�s Also a Game.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the eighth grade, Arlan Jaska figured out how to write a simple script that could switch his keyboard�s Caps Lock key on and off 6,000 times a minute. When friends weren�t looking, he slipped his program onto their computers. It was all fun and games  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[On the same day that the Supreme Court hears arguments in the Defense of Marriage Act case, the highest court in the land has issued a decision (PDF) in a class-action lawsuit involving a group of Comcast customers in Philadelphia.  The court ruled in  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[While down here in America, cops can (and do) routinely and easily get text messages from a mobile provider, in the Great White North it�s a different story.  The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, agreed that police need a warrant   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month the major labels of the UK recording industry succeeded in having three major torrent sites blocked at the ISP level. KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy all disappeared from the screens of users not using a VPN or proxy, yielding some  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A proposed tax in Massachusetts may affect software services and Web design and hosting. If approved, the state estimates the tax may bring in a quarter billion dollars in 2014 by expanding its tax on 'canned software' to include some elements of cloud   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Most Internet service providers log information about their users, such as when they use the service and the IP addresses they were allocated at the time. This information is useful for ISPs� housekeeping but it�s also an invaluable resource for  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Luvdarts LLC created a kind of MMS advertising that was designed to be forwarded to friends' cell phones, a sort of digital "greeting card" that often included discounts. But the company only wanted its ads forwarded exactly one time�and Luvdarts really m  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrate Document Freedom Day; Then We Win]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on the last Wednesday in March each year. On this day people who believe in fair access to communications technology teach, perform, and demonstrate.   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Those who have been following TorrentFreak for a while will remember Scott McCausland as the EliteTorrents admin who was busted by the FBI for uploading a pre-release copy of Star Wars Episode III in 2005.  In 2006 Scott was sentenced to 5 months in jail   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Charlie Nesson, the Harvard law professor representing Joel Tenenbaum in a case where the RIAA seeks to have him legally crucified for sharing a few songs, had filed an appeal asking the court to �reduce the $22,500 fine per song to the minimum statutory   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fiber cables made of air move data at 99.7 percent the speed of light]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers say they have created fiber cables that can move data at 99.7 percent of the speed of light, all but eliminating the latency plaguing standard fiber technology. There are still data loss problems to be overcome before the cables could be used   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[So, you know all that talk about things like Aaron's Law and how Congress needs to fix the CFAA? Apparently, the House Judiciary Committee has decided to raise a giant middle finger to folks who are concerned about abuses of the CFAA. Over the weekend  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate debated Friday. It was pushed by Senators Mike Enzi  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Goodbye Windows: China to create home-grown OS based on Ubuntu]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu maker Canonical has signed a deal with the Chinese government to create a new version of Ubuntu. For China, this is widely seen as an attempt "to wean its IT sector off Western software in favour of more home-grown alternatives," the BBC reported.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[David Bowie On the State of the Music Industry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Caught this post in the Nytimes about David Bowie; this is what he had to say about the state of the music industry (2002 report):   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A lawyer who wanted off the case of a New York man suing for an interest in Facebook has been denied his request to withdraw. Ohio attorney Dean Boland asked to be removed as Paul Ceglia's (SEHG-lee-uh's) attorney in the fall. He said his reasons  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A landmark document created at the request of NATO has proposed a set of rules for how international cyberwarfare should be conducted. Written by 20 experts in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US Cyber Command  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last May, two security researchers volunteered to look at a few suspicious e-mails sent to some Bahraini activists. Almost one year later, the two have uncovered evidence that some 25 governments, many with questionable records on human rights, may   [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple have removed sweatshop-themed game Sweatshop HD by UK developers LittleLoud from their app store citing clause 16.1 � "Apps that present excessively objectionable or crude content will be rejected.". According to the PocketGamer article, Littleloud'  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Internet tax supporters are hoping that a vote in the U.S. Senate as early as today will finally give them enough political leverage to require Americans to pay sales taxes when shopping online. Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wy.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IsoHunt�s Fung helped users infringe, blew off �red flags,� say judges]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A major Hollywood court win against the IsoHunt torrent site has been upheld on appeal. In a ruling (PDF) issued this morning, a three-judge panel found that IsoHunt and its founder Gary Fung had illegally induced users to swap copyrighted files.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sorry Fair Use, Court Says News Clipping Service Infringes On AP Copyrights]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We were surprised last year when the Associated Press decided to sue Meltwater News -- an online press clipping/news aggregator service. The issue is that Meltwater does index various news articles, just like Google, allowing you to search on them.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fresh Calls to Congress to Make Movie and Music Streaming a Felony]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last time there was an attempt to turn streaming copyrighted content into a felony the effort was crushed when the Internet rose up and defeated SOPA. But this week the thorny issue was again raised before Congress, with a suggestion that until the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK ISPs Start Blocking KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BT, Virgin Media, O2 and Be There have started to block access to three of the world�s largest BitTorrent sites. The blockades were put in place following a High Court order earlier this year, which ruled that KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Public Library Blocks TorrentFreak]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The New York Public Library is a bastion of public information and knowledge. While this may be true �on paper�, the library has a surprisingly restrictive Internet filter. The result is that many websites are censored in NYPL�s network, including  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Movie Indexing Site Operator Sentenced To Five Months Jail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The former operator of an unauthorized movie linking site has been fined and sentenced to jail by a court in Italy.  The Court of Arezzo found that the 43-year-old man had operated Vedogratis, a site that supplied links to movies on streaming portals.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RapidShare Prepares to Mass Delete Free User Data Over 5GB]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RapidShare has announced a business model change that is causing panic among its non-premium users. After offering unlimited storage space to customers using its free service, the Swiss-based file-hoster is about to implement tough new limits.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK press-regulation defines "press" so broadly as to include tweeters, Facebook users, bloggers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK regulations may soon regulate all tweeters, bloggers, and other people who post on the Internet as part of a new system of press regulation.  Today in London, Parliament is the in throes of a closed-door horse-trading exercise over "Leveson"   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T Hacker �Weev� Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T�s publicly accessible website was sentenced on Monday to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.  The judge handed   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal in $222,000 File-Sharing Case]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For close on six years the dizzying file-sharing case of the RIAA vs Jammie Thomas-Rasset has been winding its way back and forth through the U.S. legal system. The U.S. government itself got involved last month, submitting a brief to the Supreme   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube buffering or slow downloads? Blame the speed of light]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bandwidth�the number of bits per second that a device or connection can transfer every second�is the number that everyone loves to talk about. Whether it be the gigabit per second that your Ethernet card does, boasting about your fancy new FTTP Internet   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon wants to only pay for channels that TV customers actually watch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon wants to disrupt the television industry with a simple idea: smaller networks and media outlets shouldn�t be paid as much as big networks that offer channels on cable and satellite providers.  Verizon pays a per-subscriber fee for the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Protects Freedom Of Speech When It Isn't Profitable To Do So]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the past years, we have seen an all-out assault on the messenger immunity, forcing liability onto commercial distribution services for merely carrying a message. The net effect of this is a drastic and catastrophic abolition of the freedom of speech   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[the fall of Missile Command�s 30-year-old-record]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some numbers just stick out. Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight games. UCLA Men's Basketball won 88 in a row. And for the classic gaming niche, Victor Ali's 80,364,995 points on a single quarter in Missile Command looms just as large.  Today however,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don�t Download That Bro, You�re Going to Get Busted!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most enduring questions in the history of online file-sharing asks whether something bad will come from downloading and/or sharing a particular product. Will the the recording and movie industries come knocking? Will the police or even the FBI   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�New� Demonoid Fools Public with Cheap Copy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[More than half a year has passed since Demonoid went offline but many of its former users still haven�t lost faith. They cling on to every string of hope and this has led some to believe that the site returned as a meta-search engine under the new domain   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Court Of Human Rights Admits That Copyright Holder�s �Rights� Violate Our Freedoms]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized something that Pirates, lawyers, artists, and netizens have been fighting to have recognized for a long time: sharing the things we love online is a part of our natural right to freedom  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University Students and Staff Sued For Pirating 50 Cent Movie]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new copyright infringement case filed this week looks set to cause a fresh round of controversy. Copyright trolls from Switzerland, who say they are part of a non-profit organization, are about to shake down thousands of alleged pirates who shared the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The World�s Fastest Computer Is Being Slowed Down By Too Much Gold]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last November, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer was named the fastest in the world. But it turns out that a few tests were skipped along the way�and now too much gold on its motherboards means it can't run at full tilt.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge lifts gag order on online critic of McDonald�s settlement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A judge has reversed an order banning a Michigan man from criticizing a class action settlement on Facebook. A McDonald's restaurant in Dearborn, MI, allegedly advertised non-halal meat as halal, outraging Muslims who ate there. A class action lawsuit was  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Pirate Bay� Billboard Hackers Rewarded for Exposing Security Flaw]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few days ago two computer science students hacked a billboard in the center of Belgrade, Serbia, and replaced its standard message with a meters-wide Pirate Bay logo. The �hackers� said they wanted to show that security of IT-systems is often lacking  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Won't Like What Your Facebook 'Likes' Reveal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you clicked �like� next to �Bret Michaels� or �I Love Being a Mom� on Facebook?  Did you also click �like� next to �Austin Texas�?  Or maybe you clicked �like� next to �Never Apologize For What You Feel It�s Like Saying Sorry For Being Real,� because  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[happy pi day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant &#960; (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (or 3/14 in month/day date format), since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of &#960; in the decimal form. In 2009, the United States   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Founders Case Rejected by Human Rights Court]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an application to hear the cases of Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay. In its decision the Court recognizes that the Swedish verdict against the pair interferes  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We recently discussed what appeared to be a positive response from the Obama administration on the legality of cell phone unlocking. Unfortunately, the Obama administration may not be able to do anything about it. It has already signed away our  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay �Buyer� Receives Probation, Court Dismisses Most �Swindling� Charges]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The man who said he would buy The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal service faced legal action when he was accused of trying to manipulate stock prices. Hans Pandeya was said to have made misleading statements in order to boost shares in his company  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web Site Investigated For Posting Private Data]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Law enforcement officials said on Tuesday that they had opened an investigation into a Web site that posted the home addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information for more than a dozen celebrities and politicians, including Vice  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Net Neutrality Neutralised in France?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Questioned by the French government on the need to legislate on the protection of freedoms on the Internet, the National Digital Council (Conseil national du num�rique or CNNum) published today an opinion on Net neutrality1 [fr]. It recommends that  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Parliament Just Voted To Ban Porn, But Refrains From Extending Scope To Internet Following Protests, And Hides Who Voted For It]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament has just voted in favor of the much-discussed blanket ban on all forms of pornography. But first, it decided to strike out the much-discussed extension of �media� into the internet, effectively limiting the ban to advertising  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Plans to Buy Domain Names Like ".Book," Publishers Not Happy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon is crawling under the skin of book publishers and rival retailers with a new plan to purchase Internet domain names like ".book."  Amazon is currently looking to buy Internet domain names like ".book," ".author," ".app," ".wow," and ".movie."   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Six Strikes� Boosts Demand For BitTorrent VPNs and Proxies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The launch of the six strikes anti-piracy scheme in the United States has boosted demand for VPN services and BitTorrent proxies. Data from Google reveals a big surge in searches for terms such as �BitTorrent VPN� and �BitTorrent proxy� over the past two   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Revenge Porn Magnate Gets Hit With $250,000 Defamation Claim]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay �Advert� Appears on Hacked Billboard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of hackers have managed to gain access to a prominently placed advertising billboard located in the crowded Republic Square in the center of Belgrade, Serbia. For a while the billboard displayed the Pirate Bay logo alongside Ghandi�s quote �first   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft backs law banning Google Apps from schools]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is backing a bill in Massachusetts that would effectively force schools to stop using Google Apps, or any other service that uses students' data.  "Any person who provides a cloud computing service to an educational institution operating within   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Copyright Trolls to Judge: Nope! We�re Not Coming to Scary Hearing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The copyright trolls of Prenda Law have kicked back against a judge who ordered them to appear before a Los Angeles court this coming Monday. The hearing has the potential to lead to prison for some of those involved but not if Prenda have their way. In a  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Parliament blocks citizen e-mails protesting EU 'porn ban']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After European citizens began to complain en masse over a report proposing that porn should be banned in the 27-member state bloc, European politicians blew the whistle on their own IT department  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Glass can identify friends by their clothing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google�s (GOOG) Project Glass is one of the most highly anticipated devices of the year, even though we still don�t know much about it. As we inch closer to release, which is scheduled for the end of this year, more information about the device  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Libel Reform, And Why It Matters To Britain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The risk of libel reform failing is not one that any Briton should find acceptable. The damage our libel laws have caused over the decades is immeasurable, and has only increased since the advent of the internet.   Now the vastly   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook changes News Feed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook plans to unveil an updated look to its News Feed feature today, a core element of the social networking site�s interface since nearly its start.  From their Menlo Park, California headquarters Thursday morning, the Silicon Valley giants will give  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Holder: DOJ Used Discretion In Bullying Swartz, Press Lacked Discretion In Quoting Facts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresh off of explaining why the President can use drones to kill Americans on American soil, Attorney General Eric Holder apparently feels emboldened to say just about anything to justify ridiculous government actions. The latest? Defending the Aaron  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dotcom Given Green Light to Sue Kiwi Spies, But Evidence to be Withheld]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kim Dotcom and his associates have chalked up another win in their New Zealand extradition battle. Last year High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann gave Dotcom permission to sue GCSB, the Kiwi spy agency, for illegally spying on him on behalf of   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paintbot uses Twitter hashtags to trigger paintball firing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Developed by digital agency iStrategyLab and showcased on the company site, the Paintbot is a paintball gun that has been modified to fire when a specific Twitter hashtag is used by anyone on the social network. Utilizing the Arduino platform   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Releases Data On FBI Spying]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to Wired, 'National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans' finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bradley Manning Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize As People Begin Realizing How Damaging His Case Is To A Free Press]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With Bradley Manning pleading guilty to some of the lesser charges against him, Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler -- who is a possible expert witness in the trial -- has an excellent and detailed post about why the entire case against him should be  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fake headline of the day: the Pirate Bay �moves� to North Korea]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Has the notorious piracy website The Pirate Bay truly fled to the country most inhospitable to Internet users of all kinds�North Korea? That's what the site was saying today, complete with a re-worked ship logo that proudly displayed the colors  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay � North Korean hosting? No, it�s fake.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Something i stubled upon in the #lowendbox IRC: http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/04/after-being-cut-from-norway-the-pirate-bay-returns-from-north-korea/  This is certainly interesting, however let me tell you: It is fake. TBP is not hosted in North Korea  [..]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House calls for cell phone unlocking ban to be overturned]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The legality of unlocking one's cell phone to run on any network has flipped back and forth in the past several years. It was deemed illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act�then it was made legal by the Library of Congress in an exception  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay has been offered virtual asylum in North Korea. This move comes after the Norwegian Pirate Party was forced to stop routing traffic for the infamous BitTorrent site by a local copyright group. �We can reveal that we have been invited by the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North Korea]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay is back online. Its new provider turned out to be none less than one in North Korea. This has all sorts of interesting geopolitical consequences. People using The Pirate Bay right now will observe that it�s slightly slower than usual.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Newspapers go all-in for copyright fight against clipping service]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A copyright battle between The Associated Press and an online news-clipping service is reaching a climax, and the case could have significant implications for fair use. AP sued Meltwater Group last year, arguing the "reputation management" company had   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twelve Hollywood Movie Cammers Caught, Police Prosecute None]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group FACT revealed that the Film Distributors Association had handed out cash rewards to more than a dozen cinema workers who managed to sniff out so-called movie �cammers� in UK cinemas. But despite every  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anakata Says Thanks From Prison]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Cablevision Suing Viacom Over Cable Bundling]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cablevision (a huge cable network) is suing Viacom (owner of MTV, Nickelodeon, etc), alleging that Viacom is violating U.S. federal anti-trust laws by requiring programming packages to be bundled. If they are victorious, it would be a tiny step closer to   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In response to the recent White House petition, the FCC will be investigating the viability and possible harm of the ban on cell-phone unlocking. Gregory Ferenstein met with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at a TechCrunch CrunchGov event Wednesday, where   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boy Spends $ 2500 In Ten Minutes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A five year-old boy in England recently ran up a $2,500 bill in less than ten minutes in a free game he downloaded off of iTunes. Danny Kitchen had been pestering his parents all day to give him the password to the iTunes account so he could download the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[System Used By New Six Strikes CAS, Falsely Identifies Game Mods As NBC TV Shows]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reader David Sutherland emailed us this week about a DMCA notice that he received via his MediaFire account. The notice, which we've included below (including all of the crappy formatting) claimed that he was using MediaFire to host "one of the following   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blocking BitTorrent sites doesn�t stop piracy�but Spotify might]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A United Kingdom judge ruled Thursday that Virgin Media, BSkyB, BT, and other British telcos must block access to BitTorrent sites Fenopy, Kickass Torrents, and H33T.com.  In a written decision, Judge Richard Arnold said that these sites enable copyright   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Here Comes ACTA: Canadian Government Introduces Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Compliance Bill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Canadian government today introduced a bill aimed at ensuring the Canada complies with the widely discredited Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Despite the European Union's total rejection of ACTA along with assurances that ACTA provisions  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ouya ready to ship to Kickstarter backers March 28, hits stores in June]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What promises to be a year filled with video game hardware will officially start on March 28, when Ouya will ship its Android 4.0-powered home game console to over 60,000 backers who helped the upstart system raise nearly $8.6 million on Kickstarter. The   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple censoring iCloud emails and attachments]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple's iCloud email service deletes all emails that contain the phrase "barely legal teen" it was revealed today.  Macworld has tested this by sending two test emails from a personal iCloud account. The message read "My friend's son is already allowed to  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. wants Wikileaks shut down - will recruit hackers for help]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A recent report from the U.S. Attorney General shows a real interest in seeing Wikileaks and other groups like them shut down.  The report also suggests the U.S. government may be recruiting and using civilian hackers as an aide in catching cyber threats   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday legalizing Internet gambling. While the bill only allows Atlantic City casino companies to take online bets, the WSJ believes that those casinos will partner with overseas companies that provide service  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 Strikes - Because the DMCA Wasn't One-Sided Enough]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The debut of the 6-strikes system is now on us, and yet we have to wonder why it�s here in the first place. The US already has a robust court system for dealing with alleged infringers (and tens of thousands that have been targeted by it over the last few  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Copyright Alert System FAQ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It�s been a long time coming, but the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) � aka �Six Strikes� � has finally launched. CAS is an agreement between major media corporations and large Internet Service Providers  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Government Wins Appeal in Kim Dotcom Extradition Battle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kim Dotcom and his associates have lost a key battle in their extradition fight against the United States. On two earlier occasions, including once in the High Court, Dotcom�s legal team successfully argued they were entitled to examine mountains   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. �Pirate� Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Texan operator of Channelsurfing.net has made a deal with the United States Government to avoid prosecution. The man, who was arrested in 2011 after the domain name of his website was seized, stood accused of criminal copyright infringement  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Cable Has So Many TV Channels You Never Watch�Explained in 1 Lawsuit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever fantasized about suing cable companies for over-charging you for hundreds, if not thousands, of channels that you don't want to watch? Then please pay attention to a new lawsuit brought by Cablevision, a cable company, against Viacom  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cablevision Disconnects Persistent Pirates for 24 Hours]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cablevision / Optimum Online has revealed how it will respond to serial copyright infringers under the six strikes system. The Internet provider says it will temporarily disconnect customers from the Internet after they have received multiple copyright  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[High Court Orders UK ISPs to Block Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The website blocking phenomenon has continued today in the UK, with the High Court adding three major torrent sites to the country�s unofficial ban list. Following complaints from the music industry led by the BPI, the Court ordered the UK�s leading  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House Wages War On Freedom]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The title reads �Return the Statue of Liberty to France until the Patriot Act is repealed� in what may be one of the most concise petitions to have appeared on the site. The body of a new whitehouse.gov petition consists of a single sentence.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast revealed today how it will deal with customers who receive multiple warnings under the newly launched �six-strikes� anti-piracy system. After four alerts the ISP will �hijack� web-browsers of suspected serial pirates with a persistent  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a blog post by Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, founder of corporate watchdog SumOfUs.org and partner of the late Aaron Swartz: "The DOJ has told Congressional investigators that Aaron's prosecution was motivated  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Net providers begin warning of illegal downloads]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Internet users who illegally share music, movies or television shows online could soon receive warning notices from the nation's five major Internet service providers. The Copyright Alert System, organized by the recording and film industry  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anna Troberg: We will not supply the copyright industry martyrs, we will win the war]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There have been some really hectic days since we received that letter from the Legal Alliance.  Now we have, together with The Pirate Bay and our sister parties in Norway and Catalonia stitched together a good solution to show that piracy movement   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hydra Bay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a large, waist-level cabinet with five holes in its top and a large, soft, black mallet. Each hole contains a single plastic mole and the machinery necessary to move it up and down. Once the game starts, the moles  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate Bay leaves Sweden for friendlier waters]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Swedish Pirate Party has stopped hosting the notorious website The Pirate Bay, according to TorrentFreak. While no one knows where the site is actually run from, Web-hosting services have been provided through the Swedish Pirate Party for a few years   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nintendo Wants to Hunt Down Game Pirates and Block Websites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative Nintendo urges the Government to put pressure on foreign countries to do a better job at tackling online piracy. The game company says it�s suffering �huge losses� due to the unauthorized distribution of their   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Obama advisor argues Comcast is a threat to the open Internet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard and a former advisor to President Obama, was not a fan of Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal. In fact, Crawford was so appalled by the transaction that she made the fight over the merger the focus   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yelp Review Helps Cement Precedent of Not Taking Internet Seriously]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA["Diana Z.," a former tenant of a building owned by Beal Properties in Chicago, did not have a pleasant experience while living in their building. She was charged late fees on her rent, even though she had documentation saying she paid it on time, and was   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 best sites to play with when you get bored this weekend]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tell me this isn't fun to play with. Try zooming in and who knows what you may find. Nudity, drugs, parties? It's all in there.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pirate World 2013]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pirate Movement as updated since the last version. Latest count of Pirate Parties in the world = 64 Pirate Parties (registered 23, active 27, low activity 11, conflicting parties 3).  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[�Six Strikes� Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The much-discussed U.S. six strikes anti-piracy scheme is expected to go live on Monday. The start date hasn�t been announced officially by the CCI but a source close to the scheme confirmed the plans. During the coming months millions of BitTorrent users  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony unveils PlayStation 4, coming holiday 2013]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After almost a year of rumors and whispers, Sony has finally revealed the worst kept secret in gaming: The PlayStation 4 is on the way. At a lavish press event in New York, the company showed off its next-generation console, a system it hopes will  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scammers Extort BitTorrent Users Posing as Law Enforcement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A mysterious company using the name �Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency� is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit claims to work with   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[going on vacation for a week]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[im gonna take off and ignore the internets and be drunk alot for a week. the site prolly wont get updated unless someone else wakes up and it might even go down and not   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anti-Piracy Group to The Pirate Bay: We Want You To Sue Us!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an act of either genius or madness an anti-piracy outfit turned the tables on The Pirate Bay this week by pirating parts of their website in order to show that piracy should be avoided. TPB responded by threatening to sue. But rather than back down  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a welcome turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke directly to the patent troll problem and the need for more comprehensive patent reform yesterday in a "Fireside Hangout" � a live question and answer session hosted in a Google+ hangout.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirated Indie Game Devs Get Full Pirate Bay Support To Crack Steam]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following the unofficial upload of their game to The Pirate Bay last weekend, a pair of indie game devs took a decision to go with the flow and turn the situation to their advantage. Courting BitTorrent users and posters to Reddit with positive vibes and   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Absurd (Unconstitutional) Photo Manipulation Bill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are following us on Facebook or Twitter (and if not, why not?), you�ll notice we posted two news stories about the Georgia state Government this past week. One was on a broadband limitation bill, and the other relates to online photo manipulation.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the printing and distribution of pornography already banned in Iceland, further measures to stop internet porn are being considered by Iceland's Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson. From the article: "Iceland is taking a very progressive approach  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CBS and CNET Liable For ALL BitTorrent Piracy, Artists Tell Court]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In their ongoing legal battle against CBS and CNET, a coalition of artists has reiterated their request for a distribution ban on file-sharing software. The artists, joined by billionaire and FilmOn founder Alki David, accuse the media conglomerate  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Egyptian regulator appeals against court's YouTube ban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Egyptian authorities appealed on Thursday against a court order banning the video file-sharing site YouTube for a month over an amateur video that denigrates the Prophet Mohammad, saying the ruling was unenforceable. "The National Telecommunication  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police hold 11 over ransomware scam 'affecting thousands']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A complex cybercrime network spreading ransomware designed to extort money has been shut down, police have said.  Spanish authorities, working with the European Union's law enforcement agency, Europol, arrested 11 people, from Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Julian Assange files formal application to run for Australian Senate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Julian Assange�s formal application to the Australian Electoral Commission in Melbourne was filed on Tuesday by a supporter on his behalf.  Assange announced his intentions late last year and is now putting himself forward as a candidate of the newly form  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Petition to remove prosecutor in Aaron Swartz case up for White House response]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A petition to the White House requesting the removal of Aaron Swartz�s prosecutor before his death has surpassed 25,000 signatures � which means the Obama administration must reply. It comes one month after the internet activist committed suicide  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night before the State of the Union speech, President Obama signed an executive order for improving cybersecurity of critical infrastructure (PDF). The highlights of the order are: 'information sharing programs' for the government to provide threat  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Demonoid �Operator� Released From Jail, Case Stalled]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The demise of Demonoid has been cited as one of the main victories against online piracy in 2012, but the case against those responsible for the site is reportedly stagnating. According to new information an alleged operator of Demonoid has been released   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Unites States Government has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court asking it to uphold the $220,000 verdict in the RIAA vs. Thomas file-sharing case. According to the Obama administration damages of $9,250 per song is not an unconstitutional amount   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comcast acquires full ownership of NBCUniversal ahead of schedule]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider, will consolidate its control over NBCUniversal by buying out the 49 percent of the media company that it doesn't already own. Comcast will pay General Electric $16.7 billion for the shares and shell out   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hackers 'broadcast hoax zombie alert' on US TV station]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A US TV network says someone hacked into their station after it alerted viewers to a false zombie apocalypse.  People watching KRTV in Montana heard a man's voice claiming that the "bodies of the dead are rising from their graves."  The alert also claimed  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay Blockades Upheld By Finnish Court of Appeal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following in the steps of other courts around Europe, Finland�s Court of Appeal has now confirmed that two ISPs previously ordered to block The Pirate Bay must continue doing so. With another ISP�s appeal to the Supreme Court just rejected it now seems   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's becoming clear that the lobbying around the proposed EU directive on Data Protection is some of the most intense ever seen - some activists have said it's even worse than during ACTA, while on the US side there's mutterings about starting a  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BBC announces Doctor Who 3D special]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fans will be able to visit the Tardis in 3D in a special 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who later this year.  The special was announced as part of the BBC's latest round of drama commissions, which will also see Call The Midwife return in 2014.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Urge Supreme Court to Let Stand $ 222K Landmark File-Sharing Verdict]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to let stand a $222,000 jury verdict levied against infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who downloaded and shared two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics: How The BPI Cherry Picks Its Averages To Pretend File Sharers Spend Less]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We've written more than a few times about how multiple studies have shown time and time again that those who file share tend to spend more on buying music than those who don't. We've also talked about how the RIAA absolutely hates this fact and tries  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vote To Name Two Newly Discovered Moons of Pluto]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The SETI Institute has launched a new website called 'Pluto Rocks!' intended to gather a public vote on the names of Pluto's smallest, and most recently discovered, moons P4 and P5. Discovered in 2011 and 2012 by Hubble, the two dinky satellites  [..]]]></description>
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