by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the six-strikes-and-you’re-out-out-but-not-really-out-kinda dept. Major internet service providers today(24th) will start monitoring the internet traffic to their customers’ computers and will warn them if they download copyrighted materials using...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the robots-suffer-texas’s-shenanigans…-for-now dept. “Organizations like the EFF and ACLU have been raising the alarm over increased government surveillance of U.S. citizens. Legislators haven’t been quick to respond to concerns of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the launch-into-orbit,-i-hope dept. “Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl. A source with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, POLITICAL
from the keeping-‘murica-safe dept. Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, lives near Seattle and bought a boat there. He ordered it from a company based near him, but across the border in Canada. Yesterday, the company tried to deliver it to him, and it had...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, LAW, MONEY
A mysterious company using the name “Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency” is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit claims to work with law...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | LAW, TECHNOLOGY
from the commons-problem dept. Some two million people have bought cell-phone wireless signal boosters and have been using them to get better communication between their phones and distant cell towers. But now, the FCC says they all have to turn their boosters off and...
