Civil liberties groups have warned the public and opposition parties to remain vigilant, despite the Senate’s rejection of a controversial bill to amend the Telecommunications Interception Act
Ford Motor Company has officially and unconditionally conceded its complete and perpetual loss on the merits of the FORD vs 2600 FuckGeneralMotors.com case
A former South Australian potato farmer is seeking AU$70 million in damages from Coca Cola Amatil (CCA), company, Apend. Dubbed a David and Goliath battle, Riverland farmer Frank Perre took on CCA and won
Australia plans to endorse CD-copying kiosks in a controversial world-first plan that legalises music piracy. The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society will allow an Adelaide-based business to operate CD-pirating kiosks nation-wide for a modest royalty payment
Moves are afoot to block Australian ISPs from charging customers who complain about service provider conduct to the industry watchdog
The Canadian government has given the military and RCMP permission to jam radio signals during the G8 summit and the Pope’s visit in July — via Slashdot
The Internet’s potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium’s long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers warned
Industry groups have welcomed the recommendations in a recent report that legislation dealing with Internet censorship be repealed, which would return Internet law enforcement to the Crimes Act of 1900
A reporter for The Guardian is being prosecuted in Zimbabwe for a report that appeared on the newspaper’s web site. If the case is successful, it would allow Zimbabwe’s courts to apply the country’s draconian media laws to any online publisher, putting reporters and editors at risk of arrest if they go to Zimbabwe, or any country with extradition treaties with Zimbabwe
Warner Home Video has chosen not to copy-protect the home versions of its blockbuster movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in major markets, including the US and UK. This means people can go out and buy a DVD or VHS, connect the analogue output of their player to a recorder — either analogue or digital — and make free copies for friends
With the recent ruling in the Blacksnow/Mythic case, it seems the EULA — End User Licence Agreement, that thing that you never read — might affect the rest of the software industry, not just with game companies. From now on, you might just want to read the EULA before you click accept
— via Slashdot
Both PADI and NAUI, the two largest scuba diving certification agencies in the world, have turned over student information from the past 3 years to the FBI. If you’re a diver, you likely now have a little file at the FBI
The jury in the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney federal civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers awarded plaintiffs $4.4 million for violation of the activists’ constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favour of Earth First! activists Cherney and the late Judi Bari
The controversial Sniffer Dog Alert web site is in the process of upgrading to a larger server following high traffic loads which have frequently knocked its services off ai
The WIPO panel considering Jerry Falwell‘s attempt to strip Gary Cohn of his parody web site has ruled that Cohn is entitled to keep his domain names
David Bowie is confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing
The rural Ruby Ranch community fought the phone company for use of their unused lines and installed their own DSL service
Senior figures at the Department of Transport sent a secret email to uncover information on the Paddington rail crash survivor Pam Warren in what has been seen as an attempt to discredit her
VeriSign will soon be offering its wire tapping services for a monthly fee. NetDiscovery will allow telcos to comply with court ordered wire taps. Meanwhile, the NSA are hard at work trying to wiretap fibre optic cables
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