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Kogan Disappears: Is Microsoft Vengeful Or Just Crap?
Authored by: calris74 on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 12:41 AM EDT
clicky
< br> Love the comment from Ruslan Kogan:
Google "prides itself on an objective search algorithm."

Hello, regulators, where are you...

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Dotcom Extradition Hearing Delayed till March 2013
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 02:12 AM EDT
NZ Herald

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ACTA - Leaked docs show Canada/EU Commission trying to sneak ACTA into Canada & back into EU
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT
Michael Geist sez,
Last week, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject ACTA, striking a major blow to the hopes of supporters who envisioned a landmark agreement that would set a new standard for intellectual property rights enforcement. The European Commission, which negotiates trade deals such as ACTA on behalf of the European Union, has vowed to revive the badly damaged agreement. Its most high-profile move has been to ask the European Court of Justice to rule on ACTA's compatibility with fundamental European freedoms with the hope that a favourable ruling could allow the European Parliament to reconsider the issue.

While the court referral has attracted the lion share of attention, there is an alternate secret strategy in which Canada plays a key role. According to recently leaked documents, the EU plans to use the Canada - EU Trade Agreement (CETA), which is nearing its final stages of negotiation, as a backdoor mechanism to implement the ACTA provisions.

The CETA IP chapter has already attracted attention due to EU pharmaceutical patent demands that could add billions to provincial health care costs, but the bigger story may be that the same chapter features a near word-for-word replica of ACTA.

According to the leaked document, dated February 2012, Canada and the EU have already agreed to incorporate many of the ACTA enforcement provisions into CETA, including the rules on general obligations on enforcement, preserving evidence, damages, injunctions, and border measure rules. One of these provisions even specifically references ACTA. My post includes a comparison table of ACTA and the leaked CETA chapter.

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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ACTA Lives: How the EU & Canada Are Using CETA as Backdoor Mechanism To Revive ACTA
Michael Geist' blog

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Lamar Smith Looking To Sneak Through SOPA In Bits & Pieces, Starting With ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 11:14 AM EDT
While it didn't get nearly as much attention as other parts of SOPA, one section in the bill that greatly concerned us was the massive expansion of the diplomatic corp.'s "IP attaches."

If you're unfamiliar with the program, basically IP attaches are "diplomats" (and I use the term loosely) who go around the globe pushing a copyright maximalist position on pretty much every other country. Their role is not to support more effective or more reasonable IP policy. It is solely to increase expansion, and basically act as Hollywood's personal thugs pressuring other countries to do the will of the major studios and labels. The role is literally defined as pushing for "aggressive support for enforcement action" throughout the world. A few years ago, we detailed how, at a meeting of these attaches, they bitched and complained about how copyright "activists" were making their lives difficult and were a "threat" who needed to be dealt with.

In other words, these people are not neutral.

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

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How Big Music Threatened Startups and Killed Innovation
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 11:58 AM EDT
This is a fantastic paper which gives very enlightening insight into the inner workings of the Music Industry. *MUST READ*
As stated succinctly by one official to an innovator offering a service that the labels could use to protect their music online, “You don’t understand. Our job is to keep you down.”437 One respondent, who did not want the comment attributed to him given the sensitive nature of the information, relayed stories “from the rap business” about “people being physically intimidated” or “being hung out of windows.” Another respondent explained that “when you get high enough up in the food chain (and bizarrely we few kids were caught in this thing), you know it’s a rough game” and “you don’t belong there if you can’t play.”
This is exactly what is happening to Kim Dotcom. LINK

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More (undesirable) action on standards patents
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:40 AM EDT
reported by El Reg

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Alice Corp
Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT
I thought it was Alice against the Umbrella Corp.



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a small fish in an even smaller pond

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Massive Change to UK Copyright Laws Hidden in Enterprise Bill
Authored by: sproggit on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT
Today's Register has an article that makes int eresting reading...

Quoting from the article itself:
"Analysis
A huge expansion of bureaucratic power over UK copyright has been smuggled quietly into draft legislation – giving civil servants the ability to sweep away copyright protection by statutory instrument rather than primary legislation."
and... there's more here, here, and here.


Quite a bit of occasionally confusing material to go through, but we can at least all chip in and read it together...

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INFOGRAPHIC: The LIBOR Scandal Explained
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 05:57 PM EDT
http://www.accountingdegree.net/images/libor.jpg

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