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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Kravets writes on Threat Level : The Bush administration on Tuesday will try to convince a federal judge to let stand a law granting retroactive legal immunity to the nation's telecoms, which are accused of transmitting Americans' private communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. At issue in the high-stakes showdown — set to begin at 10:00 a.m. PST — are the...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... on the part of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA caught the eye of Wired ’s David Kravets, said p2pnet . He’d described the plight a New York family accused of copyright infringement, writing >>> The RIAA was initially zeroing in on the mother, Joan Cassin, as being the copyright infringer. Two weeks later, the RIAA subsequently re-filed the identical allegations...
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Ethics Newsline (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... online-jargon comments ranging from OMG (”Oh my God”) to LOL (”laughing out loud”). Wired ’s David Kravets reports: “Public suicides are common; people jump from bridges and buildings. But the phenomenon is now encroaching on to the global arena offered by the Internet. A British man suffered the same fate two years ago after being goaded to hang himself while in a webcam chatroom....
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vipeers (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
The DMCA may be responsible for the Internet we know today. That's what claims Wired who goes as far as stating that the DMCA saved the Web. Indeed, in his article, David Kravets explains how the Digital Millenium Copyright Act...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... it's also because so many of these crimes happen across national lines.According to Threat Level's David Kravets, though, the US has a few ideas about how to combat ID theft. Some are obvious, like using social security cards less often. But others involve creating new mega-ID cards and a new law enforcement unit:The (.pdf) also includes 31 recommendations to combat identity theft....
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... took place. She admits downloading music years ago, “when she was barely in high school,” says David Kravets in Wired . “She just doesn’t think think she should pay $7,400 for it today.” It’s standard operating procedure for the RIAA to initially attack parents, knowing from the start they had absolutely nothing to do with the alleged file sharing. Only when they’ve caused maximum...
