December 13, 2009 | Digital Rights, News

Private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England have been released to the Internet which may change the terms of the global warming debate. The hullaballoo started when somebody calling themselves FOIA posted a message to the Air Vent blog which offered a tantalizing ZIP file about climate [...]

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May 22, 2009 | Digital Rights, News

Wired.com is reporting that TuneCore is going to partner with Amazon to offer CD’s printed and distributed on demand. TuneCore will charge only $31 per year to prepare a 10-track CD. Music lovers will buy the CD’s on Amazon’s website, and musicians will get 40% of the proceeds. TuneCore has generate $32 million in sales [...]

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May 20, 2009 | Digital Rights

Cory Doctorow, the Canadian blogger and science fiction writer, has come out against ISPs’ increasing efforts to throttle and control bandwith and Internet accesss. He argues in the Manchester Guardian that: ISPs are censoring sites that they don’t agree with for whatever reason, including striking workers’ sites. It’s also outrageous to allow a service provider [...]

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January 12, 2009 | Digital Rights

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a San Fran chiropracter is suing a local artist who wrote a bad review of him in Yelp, the crowd-sourced business review site. The story is being discussed on Slashdot here. The dispute was over the doctor’s billing practices, not medical care.  Ironically, he’s probably damaged his business [...]

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January 10, 2009 | Digital Rights

Slashdot is reporting that GoDaddy, the web registrar known for racy Superbowl commercials, has shut down a Palestinian children’s web site for what a private group calling itself the “Northeast Intelligence Network” described as a cartoon promoting attacks on Israel. Although I’m not able to evaluate the webpage in question, I’m skeptical of the ability [...]

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