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Submission + - Supreme Court to hear First Sale Doctrine case (cnn.com)

Submitted by Registered Coward v2 on Saturday October 27, 2012 @08:08AM

Registered Coward v2 writes: SCOTUS is set to hear a case to determine how copyright law and the doctrine of first sale applies to copyrighted works bought overseas, imported to the US and then sold. The case involves a foreign student who imported textbooks from Asia and the resold them in the US to help fund his education. He was sued by the publisher, lost and was ordered to pay $600k in damages. Now SCOTUS gets to weigh in on the issue.

Submission + - Protecting against smash and grab?

Submitted by rstory on Thursday December 15, 2011 @12:03PM

rstory writes: I seem to be hearing about more smash and grab thefts lately, from low-tech purse snatching to thieves after laptops and cameras. Bold thieves are even snatching stuff in church/day-care parking lots in the 5 minute window while a parent goes in to pick up their child. I often drive around with my laptop, and want to find the best way to protect against theft. Besides the obvious "don't leave equipment in the car" solution, what else are people doing? Right now I just use a regular backpack instead of a fancy laptop case. I don't have a trunk, so when I leave the car I put the backpack on the floor of the back seat, sometimes throwing other junk on top. The only interesting thing I've found while googling is a couple of 'anti-theft' backpacks which have wire mesh to prevent cutting them open and a (thin looking) cable for securing to a stationary object. What do you do to protect your gear?

Comment Re:You're Wrong (Score 1) 13

by rstory on Friday November 06, 2009 @02:45PM (#30007832) Attached to: Godaddy Hosting to Delete Wedding Photos

In answer to your question, no, it is not normal hosting policy.

I think it is common for the places that advertise very high storage limits... Dreamhost does the same thing.. though I had to get up to tens of gigabytes, not just 1, before I got smacked down by them..

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