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Congress Tries To Hide Data Retention Law Pretending It's an Anti-Child Porn Law(techdirt.com)
95 points by ygreek 15y ago|9 comments
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by ygreek 15y ago
In China you already have to apply for a website license ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license ). And most people do not care about it very much. I once made a site with a friend from China, and he applied for the ICP license, even tho
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Can We Kill This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed?(techdirt.com)
186 points by ygreek 15y ago|47 comments
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Protect IP Act Law Giving Feds Power to Blacklist Piracy Sites Advances(wired.com)
2 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ygreek 15y ago
I wish there were good open source alternatives to Gmail, Facebook, Twitter etc. that you could just install on your own server. But as it is now leaving cloud entirely would require significant effort, time and knowledge to setup and when
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by ygreek 15y ago
This idea is actually not as crazy as it may seem. Copyright lobby is usually just one step behind the Chinese policies of restricting access to the illegal content, with the only difference in definition of illegal. Chinese have developed
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by ygreek 15y ago
Admirable, but regrettably, people boycotting Kindle or any other product because of the DRM are in the minority that is easy to ignore.
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by ygreek 15y ago
In other news: RIAA Wants To Start Peeking Into Files You Store In The Cloud http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570538 Considering those trends I would not want to store any unencrypted data in the cloud.
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RIAA Wants To Start Peeking Into Files You Store In The Cloud(techdirt.com)
62 points by ygreek 15y ago|38 comments
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by ygreek 15y ago
I am not a layer, so I do not really understand what does the phrase "conducting business in the US" means. Does creating a website amounts to the "business in the US", since by the nature of the internet, websites in any country would norm
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by ygreek 15y ago
I do not understand on what grounds the Chinese company that serves Chinese users is being sued in New York. The search results are censored because Chinese law requires doing so. What does it have to do with the US?
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Undisclosed vulnerabilities could allow destruction of infrastructure systems(wired.com)
1 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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New Internet Censorship Plans Lead To Protests In Turkey(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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Disney Trademarks Seal Team 6 Two Days After SEAL Team 6 Kills Bin Laden(techdirt.com)
2 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ygreek 15y ago
It looks like they do not offer any good way to deal with forgery. The card and the hologram are not terribly hard to produce. Also unlike the usual bills they would not have the strong legal protection from counterfeiting.
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by ygreek 15y ago
Author's uncritical fascination with those scammers makes the article quite annoying to read. Leaving ethical issues aside, spamming does not seem to be technically challenging. Especially if you live in a country where the law enforcement
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White House Wants Mandatory Three-Year Sentence for Infrastructure Hackers(wired.com)
4 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ygreek 15y ago
It feels ridiculous that I can easily send any pdf or jpeg files to Canada or nearly any place connected to the Internet, and no one would interfere. But somehow the exact same pictures printed or drawn on paper are subject to the border in
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Google to Pay Feds $500 Million Fine for Rogue Pharma Ads(wired.com)
31 points by ygreek 15y ago|6 comments
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Is Your Computer Listed “For Rent”?(krebsonsecurity.com)
9 points by ygreek 15y ago|0 comments
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Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants(wired.com)
71 points by ygreek 15y ago|37 comments