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The British Parliament has approved a law authorizing temporary suspension of internet access for those accused of repeated copyright infringement, reports the New York Times. Opponents of the law, such as the Open Rights Group, promise to turn this into an election issue in Great Britain.

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A federal appeals court held that federal agents need not get warrants to search files shared over peer-to-peer networks, reports Wired.

The Pentagon will now allow troops access to online social media like Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace, Business Weekly reports.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given Google a license to trade energy on the wholesale market, [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]