WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, a judge has ruled — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Court has dismissed an appeal lodged against internet service provider iiNet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has criticized a recent report, commissioned by the pro-copyright group AFACT, which shows that the Aussie economy is suffering badly from movie piracy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The copyright industry has tried the same tricks and rhetoric for well over 500 years, and they are also keen on trying to rewrite history. But the tale of the history books differs sharply from what the copyright industry is trying to paint — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Free software isn’t about free services or beer, it’s about intellectual reedom. As recent episodes such as censorship in China, the Egyptian government turning off the Internet, and Facebook’s constant spying, have shown, freedom and privacy on the Internet are under constant assault. Now Eben Moglen, law professor at Columbia University and renowned free software legal expert, has proposed a way to combine free software with the original peer-to-peer (P2P) design of the Internet to liberate users from the control of governments and big brother-like companies: Freedom Box — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Ten individuals have freely and bizarrely handed over $1,000 each to movie studio Liberty Media in piracy settlements, despite the company having absolutely no idea who they are or if they did anything wrong. Now Liberty have a new amnesty and are offering BitTorrent users the chance to hand themselves in or risk being involved in 36,000 upcoming lawsuits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US woman looking for a place to stay in New York City on classified site Craigslist made an agreement with a man living in Brooklyn: she’d cook and clean in exchange for free rent.
But when she arrived from Wisconsin this month, she was handcuffed to a radiator and made to be the man’s sex slave for eight days, she told police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yes, copyright can be a tricky thing.
Apparently the take-down team at the major US television network CBS have taken drastic measures to take infringing videos offline, including a video on the CBS website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Wichita man has learned the homemade seat belt he puts on long before getting behind the wheel won’t get him out of a ticket for failing to buckle up — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We see a woman clad in Mad Men
-era finery, slowly walking from the camera down a long hallway. A voice familiar to fans of House
narrates. Only decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions, or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women’s health, pushing bills to limit women’s access to vital services, we had to ask,
she continues, as the image cuts between the woman opening a closet containing a single wire hanger and the distressed face of actress Lisa Edelstein: Why is the GOP trying to send women back to the back alley?
— via supergerbil424.newsvine.com
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, praised the role of social networks such as Twitter in promoting freedom – at the same time as the US government was in court seeking to invade the privacy of Twitter users.
Lawyers for civil rights organisations appeared before a judge in Alexandria, Virginia, battling against a US government order to disclose the details of private Twitter accounts in the WikiLeaks row, including that of the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, below.
The move against Twitter has turned into a constitutional clash over the protection of individual rights to privacy in the digital age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 5,000 blue badges for disabled motorists were registered to dead people in NI, the Audit Office has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group supporting genetically-modified (GM) food says the loss of much of Queensland’s banana crop in Cyclone Yasi points to an example of how GM foods could improve food security in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brian Fitzpatrick, founder of Google’s Data Liberation Front, landed down under yesterday, and wasted no time getting to work preaching the need for companies to be open with customer data. Or else — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The most disturbing thing we’ve uncovered is the scope of domestic intelligence activities taking place today. Domestic spying is now being done by a host of federal agencies (FBI, DOD, DHS, DNI) as well as state and local law enforcement and even private companies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The most disturbing thing we’ve uncovered is the scope of domestic intelligence activities taking place today. Domestic spying is now being done by a host of federal agencies (FBI, DOD, DHS, DNI) as well as state and local law enforcement and even private companies. Too often this spying targets political activity and religious practices. We’ve documented intelligence activities targeting or obstructing First Amendment-protected activity in 33 states and DC — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Damning evidence from an Egyptian intelligence officer that names an Australian official who witnessed the torture of Sydney man Mamdouh Habib in Guantanamo Bay has been revealed as the trigger for a hushed-up government payout to Mr Habib and a high-level investigation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ABC gardening personality Peter Cundall has been found guilty of disobeying the direction of a police officer during a rally at Parliament House in Hobart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman – author of awarded science fiction and fantasy short stories, novels, comic books and more – makes a case for piracy in a recent interview with ORG Zine.
Initially Gaiman got annoyed by people who put his stuff online for free, but later he realized that it’s actually the best promotion an author can get — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Environmentalist Erin Brockovich is so dedicated to green issues in Australia she is planning to apply for dual citizenship — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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