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RIAA draws civil liberties opposition
News The recording industry's subpoenas, filed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), violated due process and constitutional rights shielding Internet users' anonymity, the ACLU claims. In addition to being deprived of one's constitutional...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
EC: New net-neutrality law is unnecessary
News The Commission was reacting to the French Constitutional Court's ruling that Hadopi — the so-called 'three-strikes' anti-piracy law that would force ISPs to cut off persistent file-sharers of copyrighted material — is unenforcable.
[June 12, 2009, 16:17]
ISP gets deadline for identifying alleged file trader
News The subpoena laws that the RIAA is using do not violate constitutional separations of power, Bates said, nor do the laws violate computer users' free speech rights. Verizon had asked that the subpoena be deemed invalid on constitutional grounds and...
[April 25, 2003, 7:48]
Judge orders identification of file swapper
News I was disappointed that the court did not exert the time and energy to more thoroughly analyse the constitutional issues, which from our perspective were the crux of the case," Gray said. What we did tell the judge was that there were...
[January 22, 2003, 8:00]
U.S. History Quick Study Guide from MobileReference. Free Colonial America chapter in the trial
Downloads Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.Table of ContentsColonial America: Brief overview of European history (before 1492) Pre-Columbian America (before 1492) Early Colonial Period (1492 - 1607) The English Colonies (1607 - 1754) Road to...
[June 16, 2006, 8:00]
Nasa hacker to fight US extradition on Monday
Talkback American's have their constitutional rights and therefore cannot be extradited here on a whim, as our citizens can be extradited to the US without even any evidence being presented. This quite ourageous arrangement, enabled in The Extradition Act...
[June 14, 2008, 23:31]
NY accuses software maker of censorship
News Attorney General Eliot Spitzer maintained those provisions restrict constitutional rights to free speech. The New York state attorney general's office sued security software maker Network Associates on Thursday over licensing language it says...
[February 8, 2002, 13:32]
RIAA hits back at 'Nycfashiongirl'
News Previously, "Jane Doe's" attorneys had asked for more time to prepare their case arguing that the RIAA subpoena, filed with Internet service provider Verizon Communications, violated her privacy and other constitutional rights.
[August 28, 2003, 11:30]
US sued over 'massively illegal' comms surveillance
News The American Civil Liberties Union won a brief victory in a similar case filed against the NSA when a federal judge ruled in 2006 that the NSA's surveillance programme "ran roughshod" over Americans' constitutional rights and violated federal...
[September 19, 2008, 16:30]
Russia gets ready to gag online dissent
News Thus, it outlaws not only ideas but the actions of persons and organisations threatening the rights and civil liberties of our citizens and the entire constitutional order in Russia. The Russian measure, which could receive final approval in the...
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
ISP threat letters have 'positive effect', says Ofcom
Blog This is similar to the first stage of Sarkozy's 'three-strikes' approach, which culminated in the user being disconnected (Sarkozy's Hadopi law was, however, recently deemed unenforceable by the French constitutional court).
[June 25, 2009, 14:48]
The blogosphere strikes back at censorship
News Though the action is undemocratic and unconstitutional, we will use constitutional means to fight it," Web journalist Kajal Basu told Monsters and Critics. Some bloggers are threatening to take the Indian Government to the Indian Supreme Court over...
[July 20, 2006, 14:25]
Karoo changes file-sharer disconnection policies
Blog In France, President Sarkozy's 'three-strikes' Hadopi bill was deemed unenforceable by the constitutional court in June, prompting the European Commission to say that new net-neutrality legislation was rendered unnecessary by member states...
[July 24, 2009, 16:35]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
News In the US, this legislation would not be constitutional," said Starnes. The Home Office said that the courts would have to decide whether the proposed legislation would contravene individuals' rights under the European Convention on Human Rights...
[July 18, 2006, 14:00]
Video games get 'art' status in the US
News This decision is a total and unambiguous affirmation of our position that video games have the same constitutional status as a painting, a film or a book," Douglas Lowenstein, president of the IDSA, said in a statement.
[June 4, 2003, 9:53]
Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal
News This is worrying because in the UK, unlike other EU States with strong constitutional protection, there are few safeguards against excessive data exchanges. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Friday, Anderson said 11 of the databases that are currently used...
[March 23, 2009, 11:12]
Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
News The US has a constitutional guarantee of free speech -- we do not. Music industry analyst, Phil Tripp, put the proposal for the levy -- which included changes to the Copyright Act to safeguard consumer's rights to copy digital content for personal...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
'Do-not-spam' may not pass go
News But those same lawyers also said telemarketers are fighting an uphill constitutional battle, particularly in the wake of recent decisions that uphold laws that regulate the sending of unsolicited faxes.
[July 30, 2003, 11:30]
Unfair and Unreasonable
Talkback The US quoted their Citizens Constitutional rights for not enacting the agreement. To me, this situation is an abomination, not justice. The act was rushed through by the UK government the the agreement has not been ratified by the US, and has...
[December 12, 2006, 12:32]
The testimony of Napster chief exec Hank Barry
News This Committee is at the centre of the great Constitutional debates of our country and the protection of the rights we cherish as Americans. (The following is the full testimony of Napster chief executive Hank Barry before the Senate Judiciary...
[July 12, 2000, 9:56]
