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File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal in Portugal | TorrentFreak
via torrentfreak.com “Hoping to curb the ever-increasing piracy figures in Portugal, local anti-piracy outfit ACAPOR reported the IP-addresses of 2,000 alleged file-sharers to the Attorney General last year. This week the Portuguese prosecutor cam…
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Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles | Threat Level
via wired.com “Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription data…
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Spine Poetry Contest Winners! ?? The LibraryThing Blog
via librarything.com ???My goat ate its own legs, Weird by true, A moveable feast. The idiot.???
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Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles – The Globe and Mail
via theglobeandmail.com “???We have recently made the business decision to not carry Amazon tablets and eReaders beyond our existing inventory and purchase commitments,??? Wal-Mart said in a memo sent to store managers on Wednesday. ???This includes all…
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Why newspapers must raise their price | Monday Note
via mondaynote.com “When technological disruption causes an irrevocable market decline, ???it???s almost prudent to raise prices???. To support their claim, SKP mentions AOL which, at a critical point of its existence, raised its rates and generated lar…
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The Volokh Conspiracy ?? First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results
Google commissioned me to write this White Paper (???First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results???), so I thought I???d pass it along. I wrote the paper as an advocate, and not as a disinterested academic, but I hope some of our readers…