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Stephanie Wynn

Boston judge cuts penalty in song-sharing case - Monday, July 12, 2010 | 12:22 a.m. - L... - 0 views

  • $2,000 per song still seems ridiculous in light of the fact that you can buy them for 99 cents on iTunes
  • A federal judge on Friday drastically trimmed a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University graduate student who was found liable for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs online
  • cut the damage award to $67,500
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  • the new the amount "not only adequately compensates the plaintiffs for the relatively minor harm that Tenenbaum caused them; it sends a strong message that those who exploit peer-to-peer networks to unlawfully download and distribute copyrighted works run the risk of incurring substantial damages awards
Maria Puga

Long Island Confronts Cyberbullying in the Social-Networking Age | Long Island Press - 0 views

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    Laws on Cyberbullying are increasing in US
Mark Schreiber

Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infringers" - 0 views

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    The law was written in an analog era, and it targeted those who copied tapes or CDs. Such people couldn't claim not to know about the copyrighted nature of the works they were copying-it was written right there on the cassette or CD! But in the digital world, this makes no sense. How could slapping a copyright notice on a CD alert anyone using a P2P network about anything?
arnie Grossblatt

Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale
  • Human-rights groups have criticized the selling of such equipment to Iran and other regimes considered repressive, because it can be used to crack down on dissent, as evidenced in the Iran crisis. Asked about selling such equipment to a government like Iran's, Mr. Roome of Nokia Siemens Networks said the company "does have a choice about whether to do business in any country. We believe providing people, wherever they are, with the ability to communicate is preferable to leaving them without the choice to be heard."
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    Privacy and freedom of expression are always the early victims in spread of repression.
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