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IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default
EMI May Cut Funding To RIAA, IFPI
MTV Takes on P2P by Making South Park Free
New EMI Boss Says 'Downloads May Be Good'
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
US House Rejects Telecom Amnesty
Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available' Theory
Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
Courts May Revisit Software Patents
Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong
Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit
Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs
RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated
German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law
UK Music Retailers Beg, Drop the DRM
Arizona Judge Shoots Down RIAA Theories
ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting
NJ Supreme Court Rules For Internet Privacy
Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act
RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate"
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
Congress Considers Reform On Orphaned Works
ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting
UK Report Slams EULAs
US Judge Bars Unauthorized Sales of Phone Records
USPTO Reaffirms 1-Click Claims 'Old And Obvious'
Blizzard to Boll - DENIED!
Magistrate Suggests Fining RIAA Lawyers
Microsoft Under Third EU Investigation for OOXML
Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents
RIAA "Making Available" Theory Rejected
RIAA Must Divulge Expenses-Per-Download
Wikileaks Gets Domain Back, Injunction Dissolved
Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent
Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution
Judge Orders RIAA to Show Cause in DC Case
Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch
Oregon AG Seeks to Investigate RIAA Tactics
South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network
Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents
White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up
Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship
Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft
EA Loosens Spore, Mass Effect DRM
EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier"
FCC To investigate Comcast Bittorrent Meddling
Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon
ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU
Judge Backs Amazon, Raps Feds Over Book Records
Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates
Blizzard Patches No-CD Support Into Warcraft III
Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes
Computer Games Make Players Less Violent
DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar
EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling
FTC Defends Ethernet From Patent Troll
Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA
CoreCodec Apologizes For CoreAVC Takedown
Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill
Judge Permits eBay's "Buy It Now" Feature
Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU
Verizon Wireless To Open Network
Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice
Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted
Apple Mulls Flat-Rate "Unlimited Music" Option
Diebold Election Results Released By AZ Judge
FCC Considers Taking Action Against Comcast
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes
New Legislation Could Eventually Lead to ISP Throttling Ban
TV Industry Using Piracy As A Measure Of Success
White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online
6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks
AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US
Could the RIAA Just Disappear?
FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration
Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France
India Votes Against OOXML
Investors, "Beware" of Record Companies
Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P
MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading
Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability
Open Source Voting Software Success
Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller
RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails
Supreme Court Won't Hear ACLU Wiretap Case
Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books
Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM"
Lawyer Banned for Threatening File-Sharers
Australia Scraps National ID Plan
Europe Rejects Plan To Criminalize File-Sharing
First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls
Amazon Gift Ordering Patent Revoked In EU
BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
Comcast Says FCC Powerless to Stop P2P Blocking
Congress Turns Up The Heat on FCC's Chairman
Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi
Court Orders White House to Disclose Telecom Ties
Court Puts Further Limits on Software Patents
Do Not Call Registry Set to Become Permanent
Florida Election Ballots to be Printed On-Demand
Games Had Nothing To Do With V. Tech Shooting
Google Adsense Cracking Down on 'Tasters'
Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser?
HD-DVD and the Early Adopter Premium
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal
Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown
Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
RIAA College Litigations Getting A Bumpy Ride
RIAA's Boston University Subpoena Quashed
Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air
Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough
Red Hat Seeks Limits on Software Patents
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones
UK ISPs Resistant to Monitoring Users
Viacom Puts the Daily Show Archive Online
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns
Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?
Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
House Declines To Vote On Telecom Immunity
FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable
"Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
AMD To Open ATI Specs
AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable
Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
Asus Corrects Eee PC Source Code Issue
Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command
Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse
Blogger Successfully Quashes Subpoena
British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras
California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt
Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
Dell Releases Ubuntu 7.10-Powered PCs
Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy
EU Court Says File Sharers Don't Have To Be Named
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs
FCC Chairman Tries For More Media Consolidation
First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered
Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA
Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation
Geist's Fair Copyright for Canada Principles
Google Crowdsources Map Editing
Harvard Adds Open Source to its MBA Curriculum
House Passes Patent Overhaul Bill
Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt
Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause
Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer
Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit
MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry
Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise
Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers
Marshall University Challenges RIAA
Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order
Microsoft Accepts Flash For Windows Mobile
Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries
Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit
Microsoft To Drop HD DVD
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer
Municipal WiFi Moves Ahead In Houston
Must a CD Cost $15.99?
MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source
NASA Ares Rocket Specs to Be Open Source
New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone
ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does
Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP
Patent Chief Decries Continued Downward Spiral of Patent Quality
Physics Journal May Reconsider Wikipedia Ban
Proposed Canadian MP3 Player Tax Struck Down
PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents
Rochester Judge Holds RIAA Evidence Insufficient
Skype Gives Up Anti-GPL Appeal
Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008
Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated]
Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem