Government Stories for 2005

Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping 352
UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed 200
Indiana Tries to Pass Game Law Again 267
RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury 385
Google Talk Targeted In Patent Lawsuit 229
How The U.S. Government Undermined the Internet 394
NSA Caught With The Cookies 329
Spammer Sued Under EU Law 102
You've Got Indictments 119
Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google 508
A Look at Technology Legislation for 2006 77
Peter Quinn Resigns 129
Australian Media 'Crooks' to Come in from the Cold 273
Europe Building Their Own GPS 536
RIAA Sets Their Sights on Russia 485
Podcasting Censored by Government 241
Fighting RIAA Without an Attorney 407
Judge Blocks Ban on Violent Video Game Sales 242
Free P2P In France? 190
NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported 863
Microsoft, Google, Lee Settle Hiring Dispute 73
More CA Games Bill Reactions 20
Visto Founder Blogs about Microsoft Lawsuit 134
CA Games Bill Stopped 24
Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension 519
U.S. Ecommerce To Be Broadly Taxed? 639
Sony DRM Installed Even When EULA Declined 433
Symantec Restricts Crypto Export 186
Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day 777
France to Legalize File Sharing 446
UC Wins Contract to Run Los Alamos 100
Britain to log all vehicle movement 914
Digital Content Security Act 473
Games Met Politics In 2005 23
Xbox Modders Charged Under DMCA 377
Pokemon Gene Renamed Under Legal Threat 69
Testing Drugs on India's Poor 531
Analog Hole Legislation Formally Introduced 549
The History of Videogame Lawsuits 116
Defending Against Surveillance? 157
Portable Stereo Creator Gets His Due 149
Little Red Book Draws Government Attention 1088
Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions 538
Clinton Files Game Legislation 61
Bush Backed Spying On Americans 1092
A Justification for Server CALs? 74
eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud 522
Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements 162
Blackberry Competitor Announced 147
Kazaa Owners Risk Jail 221
Settlement in Marvel vs. NCSoft Lawsuit 31
Slashback: Quinn, iBackups, Wikipedia 239
Cyber Attacks on US Linked to Chinese Military? 698
Korean Banks Forced to Compensate Hacking Victims 154
Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud 342
Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet 414
Radio Telescope Has Military Uses? 186
Challenge to Transfer IT Power in MA 243
Law Requires Italian Web Cafes to Record ID 207
Webhost Sues Google 233
Teen Charged With Harassing Thompson 62
EFF Sues NC Election Board 247
Legal Battles Over Cellphone Tracking 141
Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns 1469
Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets 429
Song Sites Face Legal Crackdown 537
Slashback: Cancer, Cats, ICANN 192
ESRB Retorts to NIMF 52
EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness? 436
Kazaa Blocks Australian Users 145
Microsoft Sued Over Alleged Xbox 360 Defects 724
Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation 479
Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod 1014
Machinima With A Political Voice 20
EA Sued Over Madden 06 Feature 46
Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down 320
France Hostile To Open Source Software? 524
ACLU Joins Fight Against Internet Surveillance 158
Researchers Want Right to Bypass Protected Spyware 266
Laptop Makers Skeptical of $100 Laptop Schedule 302
ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence 253
Court Rules Ellison Must Donate $100M to Charity 191
First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial 616
Repercussions of Legislation on the Gaming Industry 35
Blackberry Maker Facing Infringement Case In U.K. 138
Security Flaws Allow Wiretaps to be Evaded 191
Slashback: BlackBerry, Cloning, Smart Hotels 378
The ESRB Gets An 'F' 641
Clinton Introduces Invasive Game Legislation 157
Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina 615
ICANN/Verisign Sued For Monopoly Abuse 209
New Orleans to Deploy Free Wi-Fi City Wide 363
Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn 574
Peter J. Quinn Investigated for Travel Omissions 120
Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers 1067
Dutch Court Orders Lycos to Reveal Client 126
Singapore Blogger Spared Jail 239
Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study 479
MS Has Free Software Removed From U.N. Paper 303
Is Fear Reducing the Publicity for Open Source? 210
Dead Chinese Gamer Wasn't A WoW Player 62
Music Industry 'trying to hijack EU data laws' 147
U.K. Says Botnets Good Sign 123
The Demise of IP? 429
DMCA Abuse Widespread 224
Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court 381
Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit 703
Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source 225
Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Web Sites for Fraud 548
Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer 544
Microsoft Windows XP N Flops 277
Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 231
FEC Rules Bloggers Are Journalists 363
Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego 254
MA Governor Wants More New Tech 500
British Spammer Gets 6 Years 190
German Politico Calls For Ban On Violent Games 61
UN Internet Summit High Points 187
Canada Unveils Internet Surveillance Legislation 272
UK To Passively Monitor Every Vehicle 703
Continued Look at Global Open Source 178
WI Assembly OKs Voting Paper Trail 197
Where are the Prosecutors? 35
Three Companies Shut Down For Spyware Bundling 95
Quantum Computing Regulation Already? 238
Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm 503
A Delay in the Michigan Violent Games Law 182
OpenDocument Gains New Fans 233
Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM 399
Creative Commons for Software? 36
Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design 2136
Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case 331
Supreme Court Lets Utilization Rights Stand 341
Jack Thompson Off Of Alabama Case 32
Lessig on Internet Governance 281
SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information 410
Game Worlds and The Law Collide 46
Unsecured Wi-Fi to Become Illegal? 418
Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows 279
Could the Web Not be Invented Today? 267
Carnegie Mellon Resists FBI Tapping Requirement 226
The Ethics Of Data Brokers 182
A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet 708
Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports 281
Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives 693
Alleged Adware Purveyor Indicted 126
Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act 782
British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case 155
Telecommuters May Owe Extra State Taxes 617
Infinium Labs in Trouble Again 35
The ESRB Bites Back 60
Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Eolas Appeal 219
The RIAA's Halloween Tricks 670
Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument 274
Google To Resume Scanning Books 257
SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong 389
BusinessWeek Examines the Rambus Legal Saga 118
Australian Do Not Call Register 252
Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design 1634
MA Lawmakers Question Move to OpenOffice 343
Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? 1722
US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips 309
Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies 341
Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea 536
Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico 252
USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause 191
Speaker of the House Starts Blogging 330
UK Politicians Threatened By Bully 76
Violent Games Bill On Tap In Florida 69
The H-1B Swindle 719
VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012 162
Behind the Fight to Control the Internet 593
BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy 470
White House Cease & Desists to The Onion 781
The Point of Google Print 404
Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet 691
Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV 511
Violating A Patent As Moral Choice 967
FCC Demands Universities Comply With Wiretap Law 215
Jack Thompson Calls The Feds On PA 85
Tech Companies Swimming In Lawsuits 147
iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit 446
ESRB Should Stand Down? 140
Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl 406
Why Talk About Internet Governance? 258
Jack Thompson Under Investigation 214
Florida DUI Law and Open Source 400
CA Officials Respond To Lawsuit 80
Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet 1149
Commission Suggests UK Should End Astronaut Ban 233
Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success 291
The Why of Space Program Races 251
The Problems with Broadband in America 800
CA Violent Games Bill Comes Under Fire 69
Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant? 256
Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade 913
Google Terror Threat 366
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off 300 Engineers 318
PCs Posted No Trespass 277
States Planning to Require License to Sell on EBay 274
Samsung To Pay Out $300 Million In Anti-Trust Suit 227
EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month 1401
Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science 954
Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News 559
Bloggers Not Eligible for Shield Law? 401
Campaign Financing Cyber Loophole 292
Credit Card Required To View 'M' Rated Information 103
ESA to Sue California Over Violent Game Law 347
Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax 791
CND Government Demands Widespread Tap Access 223
Real And Microsoft Close to Settlement 255
Korean FTC May Investigate Apple/Samsung 148
California Passes Violent Games Bill 341
Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU 273
IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims 137
Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access 377
China, Japan To Utilize Linux More Often 19
Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger 227
EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US 1974
EA Settles Employee Lawsuit 53
Finland Adopts New Copyright Legislation 323
Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM 353
Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth 571
Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer 1036
Jack Thompson Tasked With Writing Law 118
First Anti-Phishing Law Enacted in California 137
Google-NASA Partnership Backlash 270
Yahoo Accused Of Raiding Workers 118
Canadian Law Profs Counter CRIA Propaganda 119
The Fracturing of the Internet 440
States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax 395
Mobile Phones Locked By DMCA 255
U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet 1167
New Dismissal Motion in File Sharing Case 256
eDonkey Tells Congress It's Throwing in the Towel 392
Open Source In Public Sector Meeting Opposition 425
CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections 207
id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued 74
Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release 573
Owning Your Own IP at a Company? 310
Broadcast Flag Back in Congress 417
Peru Passes Free Software Law 178
Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico 534
Federal Agencies To Collect Genetic Info 428
KOffice Developers Reply to Yates 368
U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing 436
Korea To Build Front-line Combat Robot 293
US Senate Allows NASA To Buy Soyuz Vehicles 298
FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn 1003
Business At The Price Of Freedom 254

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