IT security pioneer Professor Bill Caelli has warned that Hollywood and Bill Gates may be able to take control of our PCs via new digital rights management techniques that allow content providers to enforce their policies on our machines
Recently, the RIAA has been trying to flood KaZaA with files that appear to be valid copyrighted material but are empty. The P2P networks are considering a possible move against the RIAA in response to this by using recently enacted anti-spam laws — via Slashdot
The ACT has proposed law reforms to remove discrimination in the Adoption Act and will enable gay and lesbian couples to adopt children
The liberal enclave of West Hollywood, which has long championed the rights of gay men and women, this week became the first city in the United States to ban pet owners from removing the claws of their cats
Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets are heading home after their German parent company, EM.TV & Merchandising, agreed to sell them back to their original owners, the children of Muppets creator Jim Henson — beating out Disney and Sony
The age of consent for homosexual men will be lowered to 16 but will be buffered by tough new penalties for child sexual assault by adults in positions of trust, under an overhaul of NSW sex crime laws
Hate-filled emails targeting African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims flooded the inboxes of undergraduate students during a recent hacking spree at NYU’s Stern School of Business
New technology can mean an end to old liberties and there’s little we can do to stop the surveillance state. But maybe we can turn the cameras on the watchers
If two upcoming trade pacts get signed by the retarded monkey boy, the US government could paradoxically find itself accused of breaking the very copyright law it nowadays uses to prosecute others
Documents reveal how McCarthy cherry-picked victims he could browbeat into submission
Radical British anti-capitalist activists had a hit-list of more than 50 companies of mass destruction
— mainly oil companies, arms manufacturers, banks and multinationals — in their sights yesterday for May Day protests in London and elsewhere. Entirely coincidentally, the webcams that are down for maintenance are lined along the major routes for today’s annual May Day demofest
Amnesty International has criticised Australia’s tough deterrent policy against asylum seekers as a regional conference co-sponsored by Canberra begins on Bali
In a huge setback to the big record and movie companies, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled in favour of two file-swapping services; Grokster and StreamCast Networks
Computer book publisher O’Reilly & Associates is taking a dramatic stand against automatic extensions of US copyrights by voluntarily limiting its own copyright protection on hundreds of technical titles — and promising they’ll enter the public domain after that
Protesters in the Netherlands and London heckled Shell management at the oil giant’s annual meetings this week over executive pay rises and environmental policies
In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com will delete most references to Syria, Iran, Sudan, Myanmar and five other countries from job postings and resumés
The Cypherpunks have finally caught on to the blog phenomenon: enter Invisiblog. This blog system allows users to register accounts and update their weblogs using Len Sassaman’s Mixmaster anonymous remailer program. Now you can post all those tales of late-night dumpster diving, without fear of being branded a terrorist — via Slashdot
Human rights groups have condemned the detention of three children as terrorism suspects in the notorious Camp X-Ray prison. The United States military admitted for the first time that three teenagers, aged 16 years and under, were among detainees
Seattle retailers can continue to sell food products that contain hemp — at least for the time being — after a US appeals court said it would review a federal ruling making such products illegal
A civil liberties group is again trying to gain access to a secret list to determine if Pennsylvania’s attempt to block access to child-pornography Web sites is affecting innocuous sites
The US Army’s chief of chaplains is investigating reports that a chaplain in Iraq was offering soldiers who haven’t bathed in weeks a dip in a 2000-litre tank as long as they agreed to be baptised
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