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by secretwhistle 15y ago
It's good to see a company clearly state that it wishes to prevent counterfeit goods from harming end users, but that SOPA is not the way to address that problem. Most of the talk from supporters plays up the "counterfeit" angle, dragging i
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
I was going to upvote this but it was at 666 points. So I just took a screenshot and forwarded it to the more religious of our representatives as proof that SOPA is indeed evil.
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
I love it when entities take a controversial position and, despite having the option to actually hear directly from the people its affecting, go ahead and just lock down the comment section.
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Why suing Google to remove results about your alleged orgy will never work(abovethelaw.com)
2 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
Even though Spotify is a "piracy killer" (at least in Sweden, if not elsewhere), I think the labels will be more than happy to bleed it dry and leave its lifeless corpse on the side of the road as they search for the next Big Thing to stran
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If you're going to break up an Occupy encampment, this is how it should be done.(theagitator.com)
4 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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How the UK handles anti-terrorist raids. (Check out the last sentence.)(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Senator asks Apple to pull fake driver's license app(consumerist.com)
2 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|1 comments
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Indefinite detention of US citizens to be discussed by secret committee(opencongress.org)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
Looks like Chris Dodd finally took Bono's advice: "We’re the post office, they tell us; who knows what’s in the brown-paper packages? But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort t
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Oxford Historian Favors UK Porn Censorship - "The Internet Is Our Enemy"(techdirt.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
How can this be permissible?
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NY Cyberbullying Bill Argues That Free Speech Isn't A Right But a Privilege(volokh.com)
6 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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SST Records Abusing DMCA to Take Down Fair Use/Fan Videos?(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Top 50 Video Game Characters of All Time(somethingawful.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
Ah. Don't shit where you eat. Or eat when you're shitting... something...
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Restaurant ordered to pay BMI $30K for "playing four unlicensed songs"(techdirt.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|3 comments
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The Web Might Be 2.0, But Greed Has Always Been In Open Beta(techdirt.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
"Also, original page title is "Björk trusts pirates will crack Biophilia", wonder why it got changed to Hopes? Just watching your language.." It seemed to me that she was hoping that pirates would spread the app to other platforms, rather t
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Bjork Hopes Pirates Will Crack Her New Music App(drownedinsound.com)
28 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|13 comments
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Plan B is the ER? FDA Bans Last OTC Asthma Medication(overlawyered.com)
2 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Cop Welcomes Citizen Filming; "It Should Look Good On Youtube"(reason.com)
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Understanding Gamerish: PC Games(thatguys.co.uk)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Why DNS Blocking Won't Work: Users Interests Rarely Aligned with ISP Interests(circleid.com)
5 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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A Comparison of National Video Surveillance Laws(cis-india.org)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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U. of Calgary Drops Access Copyright After Yearly Fees Jump from $27k to $1.2m.(thegauntlet.ca)
3 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Major Labels Head to Court for Digital Music Price Fixing(courthousenews.com)
1 points by secretwhistle 15y ago|0 comments
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Old Analogies Don't Scale or Why the Discussion on Swartz is Broken(freeculture.org)
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The Economics of JSTOR(anterotesis.com)
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by secretwhistle 15y ago
Thanks for the background and links, which I wish I would have seen before posting my comment. I still think there is a bit of, not necessarily resentment, but a bit of annoyance at the upstart US, which comes across to most other countries

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