September 18, 2011 |
Digital Rights
Articles
The German Pirate Party won 8.9 percent of the vote in elections for the Berlin legislature. That netted them 15 seats. That’s a huge win for a party which was seen as mostly a quixotic effort. Their main plank is to move back to the unregulated Internet of the 1990s. They want to legalize non-commercial [...]
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February 23, 2010 |
Digital Rights
As you might have heard, Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili died in luge training at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 12.
The International Olympics Committee has been using copyright to suppress videos of the event.
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February 7, 2010 |
Digital Devices
Plenty of American and other companies have claimed that Chinese companies have copied their designs.
Now, a Chinese company is claiming that Apple stole the design for the iPad from it.
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