Link Roundup

By STLR • February 12th, 2010

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Wired reports on Max Ray Vision’s thirteen-year sentence for hacking – the longest yet in U.S. legal history.

The District Court for the Western District of Washington dismisses a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft misled its customers by representing anti-piracy code as a critical security update. ComputerWorld reports.

The E-Commerce Times looks into codec [...]

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Freedom to Tinker conducts a “census” of files shared through BitTorrent, finding 99% of them to infringe copyright.

From Business Week: a Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for trespass because Google posted pictures of their residence, including their pool and driveway.

Italy will hold YouTube liable for uploads that infringe copyright or [...]

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Ephemerallaw assess the chances of Microsoft being sued for the Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability involved in the hacks recently suffered by Google, Adobe and other major companies.

Billboard.biz reports that search engine Baidu, Google’s arch-rival in China, has won a piracy case brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry [...]

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More on Google and China: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned countries that use cyberattacks, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, from the Wall Street Journal, Google affirmed its commitment both to remaining in China and to ceasing censorship of its search results.

The company Legal River has released online [...]

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Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco decided to allow showing the trial challenging California’s Proposition 8 on YouTube, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.  The Wall Street Journal Law Blog questions whether that’s a good thing.

Patent Librarian notes that Wikipedia citations in patent applications are up 59%, [...]

Happy New Year!  We bring you the last links from the second half of December 2009 on the first day of 2010.

Clever or illegal?  How online retailer Amazon escapes paying sales tax (and saves you from it as well), from Gizmodo.

South Korea pardons former chairman of Samsung… a second time.  From the Wall Street Journal.

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The New York Times discusses the increasingly complex battle over e-book publishing rights.

True/Slant reports on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch with his social network’s new privacy settings, and asks whether the changes might violate FTC regulations.

Misbehaving in the jury box: jurors researching on Wikipedia led to an overturned murder conviction, [...]

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Judges and Facebook – Is it ok to be FB friends with lawyers?  The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee says no, reports the New York Times.

Michael Arrington and Crunchpad sues JooJoo for the joint tablet venture that so publicly went wrong, says Gizmodo.

The Environmental Protection Agency announces that greenhouse gases [...]

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Patent Docs reviews Senator Patrick Leahy’s proposals for patent reform.

Third Circuit gives “Spam filter ate my filing notice” excuse a second chance, from the Technology & Marketing Blog.

EFF sues to find out how the government spies on us using social networks; Indiana University students makes a Freedom of Information request [...]

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U.S. says butt out: U.S. Senators criticize EU Commission over delay of Oracle-Sun deal.  (See our deal cheat sheet here.)

Verizon stakes its claim as the nation’s most ironic network: A week after a court called its “There’s a Map For That” advertisements “sneaky,” but not misleading (catch up here), Verizon [...]