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Court Kills 'Round-the-Clock' Surveillance Case

Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word bomb to an airline ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Southwest Airlines

MPAA: Copyright Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood

If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motion Picture Association of America,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Barack Obama,  Dan Glickman,  European Commission

Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles Covers

A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent  downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions produced by a process called ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Copyright Czar Vote Heading to Full Senate

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar. Espinel is expected to have a key role for the United States as it and ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Senate Judiciary Committee,  White House,  George Mason,  Ways and Means Committee,  U.S. Congress

Swedish Retailer Lets Go of Pirate Bay Logo

The Swedish online retailer that had trademarked a near replica of The Pirate Bay’s iconic logo has agreed to withdraw registration of what has become an enduring symbol of online piracy, Swedish media reported Wednesday. The Pirate Bay, now 6 years ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  18 Nov 2009

It's Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  18 Nov 2009

Pirate Bay Retires World's Largest BitTorrent Tracker

Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered the site’s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers — the servers that bootstrap each BitTorrent download — are no longer necessary with enhancements like DHT and PEX that allow peers ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Pirate Bay Shutters Tracker

Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered its tracker Tuesday, six years after the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker was founded. On its blog, site operators wrote that BitTorrent trackers were irrelevant – saying fledgling technologies like DHT and PEX ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

Swedish Retailer Pirates the Pirate Bay Logo

A Swedish online clothing and tech retailer has assumed ownership of The Pirate Bay’s logo and plans to market the iconic pirate ship – with a cassette-tape image and crossbones — on USB sticks. The company, Sandryds Handel, registered the logo with ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Judge Sides With RIAA in ‘Sham’ Litigation Class Action

A judge has dealt a major blow to a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the Recording Industry Association of America’s nearly 6-year-old courthouse campaign against file sharers amounted to nothing more than “sham” litigation. The judge ruled that ...

From DAVID KRAVETS, Wired,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: RIAA

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