Last month yet another court ruled that border patrol guards could search the data on mobile phones and laptops without any probable cause. This was troubling for a variety of reasons, since it basically gives them access to all sorts of things that one would have a normal expectation of privacy over. It’s quite different [...]
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While Marvel’s lawyers have been doing plenty of work on their own to hurt interest in the new movie Iron Man, some are suggesting an even more interesting scenario: that the release this week of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV (to excellent reviews) will have an impact on how many people are willing [...]
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We’ve been pretty harsh on the warring camps over the next generation DVD standard, pointing out, frankly, that most people just didn’t care, and the longer the two sides battled, the worse the problem would get. However, even given that I wouldn’t have expected the latest news that Blu-ray sales have plummeted from January to [...]
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Australian guitarist Lindsay McDougall was asked to appear in a film that he was told would be about what it was like to try surviving as a musician — and only later realized that it was actually part of an industry-backed anti-piracy campaign. He’s quite upset about it, as he claims he would never take [...]
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