Posted on May 30, 2007 by idiocracy
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, shall we?.
Profile in Incompetence; A Ten Part Series on the worst President in American History.
In this exclusive 10-part series, Investors Business Daily takes a hard look at Jimmy Carter’s administration and compares it to that of George W. Bush, which Carter has called the worst ever.
Installments [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2007 by PoliTech
Via Oikeuden edessä and slashdot:
Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”. [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2007 by PoliTech
The AACS-LA made some news yesterday. Read about some of it here, here, and here, as well as the following from the EFF Deep Links section:
What is the AACS-LA’s argument? In its takedown letters, the AACS-LA claims that hosting the key violates the DMCA’s ban on trafficking in circumvention devices. The DMCA provides that:
No person [...]
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