Patrick Havens on July 13th, 2006

RIAA loses in file sharing case
Mothers. You’ve got to love them. They give birth to us, feed us, clothe us, teach us to chew with our mouths closed, and go to bat for us against the RIAA. Sometimes they win (PDF).
An Oklahoma mother, Debbie Foster, was accused by the RIAA of copyright infringement back in [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 26th, 2006

Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
But one of the more controversial sections may be the changes to the DMCA. Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices. (That section already has been used against a Princeton [...]

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