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Movie-industry self-piracy proves that IP addresses aren’t people, invalidates copyright enforcement schemes
TorrentFreak has excellent analysis of the revelation that a user in the Swedish Film Institute’s IP block has been accused of illegally downloading movies in a report from one of the motion picture industry’s copyright bounty-hunters. Rather than snig… Continue reading
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France to require unhashed password storage
France’s new data retention law requires online service providers to retain databases of their users’ addresses, real names and passwords, and to supply these to police on demand. Leaving aside the risk of retaining all this personal information (ident… Continue reading
GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy
GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSh… Continue reading
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Why Photography Bullying is Illegal, and You Don’t Have to Take It [Police]
We’ve previously covered how, despite camera ubiquity, amateur and journalistic reports of police, security guards, and other authority figures of varying legitimacy intimidating harmless photographers… Continue reading
Taking Photos In Public Places Is Not A Crime
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has a piece in Popular Mechanics about the growing trend of cops bullying photographers who take pictures in public places, and why officials who believe such photography is against the law are mistaken.
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