Government 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
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
Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives 185
RIAA's Request For Appeal Denied In Thomas Case 197
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
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
Legal Troubles Continue To Mount For Diebold 115
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion 234
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core 474
Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash 377
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS 648
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed 182
Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons? 33
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
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
RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers 619
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
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
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision 128
Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs 583
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
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
20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe 268
Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence 231
Report Rips Government Wireless Network Effort 54
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
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations 409
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live 148
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation 318
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus 901
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? 1367
RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663
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
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
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152
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
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
Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict 457
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
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
Judge Excludes 3 "John Does" From RIAA Subpoena 225
Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed 217
How Politics Interacts With Games 81
Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple 123
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
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
Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA 288
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
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
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos 199
How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? 249
French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326
Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre 382
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team 179
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
Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying 211
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
Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks 576
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case 189
Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux 148
EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts 219
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610
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
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
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
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
Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads 402
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post? 393
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised 255
Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship 426
China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies 65
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum 138
Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL 252
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada 75
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic 68
Discuss the US Presidential Election 1912
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education 1515
In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick 258
How We Used To Vote 517
French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law 225
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos 178
Google May Scrap Yahoo Deal 49
Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim 562
Tasks of a Free Software Legal Department 24
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care 1270
Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum 179
Examining the Role of Video Games In the US Election 81
Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK 190
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 413
Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online 74
Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President? 82
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents 73
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA 420
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War 1211
Explore the Web From China 165
Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? 351
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional 281
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? 396
Thailand Blocks Anti-Royal Websites 169
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy 2369
Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes 366
The First E-President 169
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants 332
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search 623
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google 238
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All 433
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it 547
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" 205
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation 120
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty 565
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes 900
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" 793
Australian Government Ignoring Problems With Proposed Filters 292
Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262
White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches 94
Google Launches User-Driven Debate Site 68
Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" 979
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran' 516
Greenspan Tells Congress Bad Data Hurt Wall Street 496
Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property 276
Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks 266
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday 143
Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy 618
For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company 244
Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security 200
Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois 216
Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab 272
UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations 319
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database 171
F-Secure Calls For "Internetpol" To Fight Crimeware 114
Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents 311
Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement 242
Oz High Court Hears Landmark TV Guide Copyright Case 156
Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack 275
Linux As a Model For a New Government? 509
RIAA Agrees To Take $200-Per-File In Texas Case 154
IRS Rolls Out Risky Tax Processing Systems 66
EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity 369
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread 155
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers 223
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia 424
Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are 592
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored 785
RIAA Wants Its $222,000 Verdict Back 203
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online 349
Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama 713
Google Negotiating With Justice Department 83
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy 597
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud 397
International Spam Ring Shut Down 243
Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines, the Video 252
Free Wireless Band Gets FCC OK 77
President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar 555
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit 696
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software 132
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails 412
Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud 254
Canadian NDP Leader Praises P2P Communities 169
UK Government Says More Spying Needed 297
Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network 281
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents 42

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