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Submission + - Designing Copyright Laws That Are Built To Last 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With all the pressure to reform copyright law in countries around the world, the Toronto Star focuses on how to build a law that is built to last. The key ingredients include a balanced approach, technological neutrality, simplification, and embracing flexibility.
The Internet

Submission + - Pirate Bay downloads to flash drive before sale (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by scrubl
scrubl writes: An anonymous uploader has provided the database of the world's biggest BitTorrent site for download just days before the iconic pirate website was sold to its new owners. Fittingly, the 21.3 GB file was available as a torrent for download and fits on a high-capacity USB flash drive. When it was sold to Global Gaming Factory, the Pirate Bay said on its blog that "if the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it". But Torrentfreak reported the anonymous uploaded wanted further assurances: "If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again."
Networking

Submission + - Comcast intercepts and redirects port 53 traffic (wordpress.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An interesting (and profane) writeup of one frustrated user's discovery that Comcast is actually intercepting DNS requests bound for non-Comcast DNS servers and redirecting them to their own servers. I had obviously heard of the DNS hijacking for nonexistent domains, but I had no idea they'd actually prevent people from directly contacting their own DNS servers.

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