Die Gegner des internationalen Urheberrechtsabkommens ACTA feiern einen ersten Erfolg: Die polnische Regierung hat am Freitag die Ratifizierung des Vertragswerks ausgesetzt.

Die umfangreiche europaweite Erhebung und Auswertung des MPI offenbart, daß die Stammtischparolen von der ‘Schutzlücke’ durch den Wegfall der anlaßlosen Telekommunikationsdatenspeicherung keine Faktenbasis haben”, faßte CCC-Sprecher Frank Rieger die Ergebnisse der Studie zusammen.

Though the images are not identical, the judge ruled that Fielder's composition of the image, to include such features as the 'visual contrast' of the bright red bus and monochrome background, were the photographer's 'intellectual creation'.

The United States is not at war with Iran yet, but just in case,the Pentagon says they want to be prepared. To do so, the Department of Defense has dispatched 15,000 troops to the neighboring nation of Kuwait.

A source says that this drastic decision was made because the case conflicts with the interests of another client of Bennett’s law firm Hogan Lovells. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude that the pressure most likely came from the entertainment industry.

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has secretly visited Israeli Kadima leader Tzipi Livni despite the fact that Doha and Tel Aviv have no political relations, a video has revealed.

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Elsewhere, Henrik Chulu from the Free Culture blog discovered that someone at the infamous Johan Schlüter law firm downloaded the Danish movie ‘Dirch’. But Maria Fredenslund from anti-piracy group RettighedsAliancen had their excuse ready.

“We’re working for right holders, who obviously have given us permission to collect their material online as part of an investigative work,” she told Comon.dk in response.

In October, Darpa offered $50,000 to the first group to piece together the shredded documents or the one that made the most progress by Dec. 4.

Then he happened on an article about a little-known government project: The U.S. Secret Service has been working with manufacturers of color laser printers to place tiny, imperceptible yellow dots on printed pages so that the government can track the machine that produced them.

Pro-democracy demonstrators battled Egyptian police for a third straight day Sunday, their anger stoked by images of a military police officer stomping on a woman's exposed stomach over the weekend.