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Archive for June, 2008

Prove Our Case? . . . We Don’t Need to Prove Our Stinkin’ Case!! Just Fork Over the Money.

In a recent filing with a federal court in Minnesota, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) asserts that it should be permitted to recover up to $150,000 per copyrighted movie allegedly traded online using P2P file sharing without having to prove that anyone actually made a copy of that movie. That is in [...]

How Not to Win Friends (and Influence People)

The blogosphere has been afire about actions taken by Associated Press (AP) against the Drudge Retort last week. According to reports, AP sent a series of DMCA take down notices to the Drudge Retort demanding that the blog remove six items (including one user comment) that quoted AP headlines or snippets of content from AP [...]