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The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits | Threat Level | Wired.com

“The DMCA is a good deterrent from being sued,” says Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Complying with conditions of eligibility for the safe harbor is a good thing to do. It probably will prevent somebody from suing you in the first place.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-...

Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day - Technology - smh.com.au

The move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes after it threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum Whirlpool last week with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/ban...

75% Of Latest Bank Of America Bailout Used To Pay Merrill Lynch Bonuses (BAC)

*BOFA will say that the cash used to pay the bonuses was not the actual cash received from taxpayers. Please. Cash is cash. What BOFA and Merrill are already saying in their defense is that the bonuses were accrued (and mostly paid) all year and that Merrill just shelled out the last $4 billion in December...a month before the latest bailout funds arrived.

http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/75...

Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don't equal 17,000 lost sales

Jones wrote in his opinion that equating each download with a lost sale is a faulty assumption. "Those who download movies and music for free would not necessarily purchase those movies and music at the full purchase price," Jones wrote. "[A]lthough it is true that someone who copies a digital version of a sound recording has little incentive to purchase the recording through legitimate means, it does not necessarily follow that the downloader would have made a legitimate purchase if the recording had not been available for free."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090119-...

Bailed-Out Firms Have Offshore Tax Havens, GAO Report Finds - washingtonpost.com

"We do business around the globe," AIG spokesman Nick Ashooh said. "It's absurd that we're being accused of using these as tax havens. Now what the net tax impact is, that's extremely complicated."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a...

Constitution-free Zone

[Austin is just outside the constitution-free zone] Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This " Constitution-Free Zone" includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.

http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/areyoulivin...

Don't Be Evil

Do you know approximately how many times a year Google turns over personal data in response to a court order? GOOGLE: As a matter of policy, we don't provide that information publicly.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/10/18...

Loretta Nall: Some Drug Traffickers Are More Equal Than Others

On March 3, 2008 John Alexander Rochester, son of 40th Circuit Court Judge John Rochester, was arrested at the Ashland City Park in Ashland, AL for possession of meth, first degree possession of marijuana, trafficking cocaine, possession of paraphernalia,

http://nallforgovernor.blogspot.com/2008/06/so...

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?

The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&...

Behind the falsification of US economic data

real unemployment rate - between 9 and 12% / real rate of inflation - between 7 and 10% / real economic growth - about 1%

http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=172&a=6884

MySA.com : U.S. immigrations raids are about to get ugly

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded. All that is lacking is clearance from the courts. Employers should be prepared in the coming mont

http://www.mysanantonio.com/global-includes/pr...

SN&R > Local Stories > Conspiracy of dunces > 07.27.06

The defendants’ lawyers say that there could have been no conspiracy at all without Anna. Documents from the investigation reviewed by SN&R suggest that Anna provided much of the financial support, the encouragement and the know-how needed to turn their

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?o...

Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches While Traveling | Electronic Frontier Foundation

While no Fifth Amendment right protects the data on your laptop or phone, one federal court has held that even a judge cannot force you to divulge your password when the act of revealing the password shows that you are the person with access to or control

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/protectin...

InfraGard - Public Private Partnership - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedi

http://www.infragard.net/

AFP: More than one million Iraqis dead since 2003 invasion: study

A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administ

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRd3Bi6CXI...

What if our mercenaries turn on us? | Inquirer | 06/03/2007

"We got 126,000 contractors over there, some of them making more than the secretary of defense," said House defense appropriations subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D., Pa.). "How in the hell do you justify that?"

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/2007060...

The Raw Story | Cheney's Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney's options -- worth $241,498 a year ago -- are now valued at more than $8 million.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_op...

Bits of News - Dollar Danger Directly Ahead

My point is that whenever the government starts putting restrictions on currencies, or on metals, there is reason to be concerned.

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4514/2/

FSU Editorial: "The United States is Insolvent"

The GAO had found so many significant material deficiencies in the government’s accounting systems that the GAO was “unable to express an opinion” on the financial statements.

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/marte...

Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens

The Forms Catalog provides citizens and businesses with a common access point to federal agency forms.

http://www.forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal?...