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Submission + - Over 105,000 petition against UK vehicle tracking

Submitted by stevenjbaker
stevenjbaker writes: Today, the UK Prime Minister's petitions site clocked up over 105,000 signatures against vehicle tracking for road pricing. It would be bad enough if they hadn't already looked at "Intelligent speed adaptation", similarly powered by sat nav...

UK "subjects" sign up here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

See how the petition dwarfs all others here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers
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Submission + - French court slaps down Sony DRM

Submitted by john-da-luthrun
john-da-luthrun writes: A French court has ruled that Sony's CONNECT Store infringes French consumer law, reports the TechnoLlama IP blog. Under French law, it is illegal to tie the purchase of a service (such as downloading a music file) to the purchase of a another product, so Sony were held to be breaking the law by selling music files that required a Sony player in order to access them. The court also found that Sony had failed to inform customers that its ATRAC 3 files can only be played on Sony digital players. A similar case in France involving Apple's iTunes/iPod tie-in is ongoing.

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