Your Rights Online Stories for 2008

Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO 168
Terry Pratchett Knighted 366
Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal 111
Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords 630
HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran 287
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax 713
Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent 261
The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn 933
Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online 315
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
RIAA's Request For Appeal Denied In Thomas Case 197
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580
Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality 249
RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet 221
UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship 377
Comcast Facing Lawsuit Over Set-Top Box Rentals 200
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions 206
Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry 81
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262
Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve 117
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
Legal Troubles Continue To Mount For Diebold 115
Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed 83
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion 234
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core 474
Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash 377
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS 648
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed 182
Australia To Block BitTorrent 674
Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? 664
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor 603
Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons? 33
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898
Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination 779
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275
Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway 94
RIAA Claim of Stopping Suits "Months" Ago Is False 141
Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits 145
EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM 354
Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life 160
RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers 619
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction 39
Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists 269
US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory 394
With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet 242
Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data 76
New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax 655
Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing 715
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51
Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg 50
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision 128
MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids 502
Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs 583
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You 133
RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California 339
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? 521
Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? 171
Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers 494
FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote 257
Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA 69
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs 165
Australia Says No to Internet Censorship 209
20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe 268
Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM 254
Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence 231
Report Rips Government Wireless Network Effort 54
Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined 156
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again 356
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity 516
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations 409
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea 194
Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download 292
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live 148
IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship 226
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs 516
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS 278
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation 318
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus 901
Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn 612
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? 1367
RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia 668
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio 119
RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry 216
German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia 113
RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation 41
Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed 147
Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme 193
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities 375
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" 279
Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' 206
New Hampshire Law Students Take On RIAA 173
Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar 606
Google Was 3 Hours Away From DOJ Antitrust Charges 221
Valve's Gabe Newell On DRM 241
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152
Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering 231
Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes 295
Persistence Pays Off With Israel's First Windows Refund 84
Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles 129
Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters 224
Losing My Software Rights? 440
Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans 327
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives 260
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420
French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life 193
Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated 152
FCC Considering Free Internet For USA 502
Ninth Anniversary of Amazon 1-Click Injunction 68
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License 80
Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict 457
"Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate 209
An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks 715
Google's Gatekeepers 150
Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870
IT Cutbacks For 2012 London Olympics 190
FTC Pursues Rambus Appeal To Supreme Court 50
Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? 174
Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions 568
Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser 225
IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent 267
Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? 604
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla 243
Entertainment Software Association Following RIAA? 204
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
Judge Excludes 3 "John Does" From RIAA Subpoena 225
Indonesians Want To Microchip AIDS Patients 120
McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich 346
Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls 117
Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless 219
Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record 344
Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed 217
How Politics Interacts With Games 81
Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple 123
EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law 271
BluWiki Seeks iPodHash Author, Hopes for Help From EFF 77
Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations 158
Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case 260
Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System 169
Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit 79
BT Silences Customers Over Phorm 196
Chinese Hacking of American Military Networks On the Rise 205
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" 430
US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge 334
Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265
RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri 213
Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins 317
Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared 278
Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project 453
Network Neutrality — Without Regulation 351
Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA 288
CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads 245
Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy 400
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" 412
Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed 256
Court Slams Door On Sale of Spyware 51
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? 794
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid 337
HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade 499
Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents 96
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations 331
It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency 199
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore 465
Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model 260
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos 199
Real Name For Open Source Development? 262
In AU, Dodgy Dell Deal Faces Consumer Backlash 173
Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India 360
Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? 249
Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers 594
French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326
Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre 382
Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net 569
IP Rights For Games Made In School? 128
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team 179
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff 90
New Report On NSA Released Today 81
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada 541
Obama's Impending NASA Decisions 405
Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle 314
US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops 96
Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying 211
China Eases Licensing Rules For Foreign Media Sources 36
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com 275
US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use 374
3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine 417
Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet 81
Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks 576
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case 189
Google Can Predict the Flu 289
Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux 148
Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully 130
EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts 219
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610
Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial 231
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents 145
Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple 270
Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks 97
U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent 244
Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM 336
FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law 97
How Social Software Can Improve Democracy 182
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use 102
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites 174
NYCL Responds to RIAA Accusations 231
Malaysia Frees "Anti-Islamic" Blogger 53
Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win 162
Should the United States' New CTO Really Be a CIO? 243
Doctorow On Copyright Reform & Culture 243
The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections 223
Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video 153
Obama Launches Change.gov 1486
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes 419
Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads 402
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents 100
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post? 393
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised 255
Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials 184
Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship 426
UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing 97
China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies 65
New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music 263

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