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The price of freedom is eternal litigation
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 11:41 AM EDT
No it ain't! That is the peril of slavery. If you can't oppose your masters
without litigation you are truly slaves.

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Shady lobby group ALEC makes public hundreds of “model” bills
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT
It’s been public knowledge for a number of years that the American Legislative Exchange Council is responsible for writing model legislation for major industries and then pushing them, through Republican lawmakers, into statehouses nationwide. Until these model bills pop up on legislative agendas, however, little is known about the group’s legislation penning.

On Friday, following a two-year campaign by watchdog groups, ALEC published hundreds of its model bills online. The coalition of organizations pushing for greater transparency included the Center for Media and Democracy, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, Greenpeace, People for the American Way, Progress Now and a variety of labor organizations.

The full list of model bills is available here. It includes template bills pertaining to charter schools, climate (mis)education, union-busting right to work bills, workplace drug testing laws and more.

Now the watchdog coalition will push for ALEC to reveal the identities of its corporate clients.

Natasha Lennard, Salon

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DRM Strikes Again - How to screw your customers
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 05:22 PM EDT
DRMed content you paid for will vanish. Got it?

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UK press-regulation defines "press" so broadly as to include tweeters, Facebook users, bloggers
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 11:12 PM EDT
In a nutshell, then: if you press a button labelled "publish" or "submit" or "tweet" while in the UK, these rules as written will treat you as a newspaper proprietor, and make you vulnerable to an arbitration procedure where the complainer pays nothing, but you have to pay to defend yourself, and that will potentially have the power to fine you, force you to censor your posts, and force you to print "corrections" and "apologies" in a manner that the regulator will get to specify.
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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Off Topic Thread - EULAs
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT
English and Scottish lawyers are recommending a review of the law on contracts with special attention being paid to 'hidden charges'. What is especially interesting is the last paragraph which draws attention to software EULAs.

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Off Topic Thread - Wiley case at SC
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 11:33 AM EDT
Salon is reporting that the Supremes have issued their judgement on the Wiley book import case and have upheld the doctrine of first sale.

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The Internet Defence League
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 12:39 PM EDT
Join our campaigns for Internet freedom!

"CISPA --the bill that would end our online privacy -- is back in Congress despite public outrage and warnings from experts. This bill won't keep us safe from cyber attacks, but it will let companies share our personal information with the government. We stopped it once. Ready to stop it again?" link

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NASA Sponsored Toronto Hackathon
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 01:06 PM EDT

Toronto Hackathon

Saw this on Twitter, thought someone here might be interested.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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