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Monday, March 24th, 2008
A Georgia man had a creative way to protest against some of Wal-Mart's policies -- he created t-shirts and bumper stickers that said things like "walocaust" and "wal-qaeda", terms which are obvious parodies of Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart sued the guy for violating their trademark, but the claim was rejected today by a ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Ed Felten has built a reputation as someone good at finding problems with machines. New Jersey election officials wanted him to test one of the Sequoia voting machines before the election to see if there are any problems with it. Given the wide array of problems with voting machines in ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Bank Julius Baer, the Swiss firm that sued Wikileaks last week and had their site taken offline, has dropped their lawsuit.
Techdirt has the details, where they add that this is "One more lesson for overly aggressive lawyers to think about the consequences of certain actions, rather than just launching lawsuits ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In an efforts to showcase some illegal activity (tax evasion and money laundering) at Swiss bank, the Wikileaks site posted some information about some of the bank's clients.The Bank Julius Baer fought back and successfully convinced a San Francisco judge to have the site taken down, which succeeded. As is ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
DeCSS is a program that is able to decrypt a DVD that had been encrypted using CSS (Content Scrambling System).
The program was first released in October of 1999 and was similar to the later HD-DVD controversy as it provided a way for people to bypass the copy protection on a ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
As posted on SlashDot:
"It looks like MediaDefender, in an effort to quell the explosion of negative publicity over its leaked email archive, has instead done the opposite and spread it even more widely. Ars Technica is reporting that MediaDefender has sent scary-lawyer letters to two popular BitTorrent sites, MegaNova and ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
When the iPhone was first unveiled in January, 2007, many people were very impressed with the slick look of the interface. As a result, a number of people starting making iPhone skins for smartphones (to make their phone look like an iPhone).
Apple attacked them legally, then took it a step ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
HD-DVDs are protected using a system known as AACS. In order for someone to bypass AACS and make a copy of a disc, a 16 digit hexidecimal code must be first known.
When the code was first discovered, it was posted on Digg. It was quickly removed by the Digg staff, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A guy with no money started making furniture out of FedEx boxes, all of which were given away for free and obtained legally. FedEx decided to go after him.
They weren't concerned about the use of the boxes, but the fact that he posted photos of his new furniture.
Just to ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In the spring of 2003, 15,000 internal e-mails from Diebold were leaked onto the internet. The e-mails largely showed the concern that the company had over the security of their own voting machines.
Abusing the power of the DMCA, Diebold sent cease-and-desist letters to every site that had posted the e-mails. ...
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