- France removes Internet cut-off threat from its anti-piracy law—"French digital minister says 'it's like cutting off someone's water.'"
- Sweden: Copyright Industry Demands, Gets Levies For Every XBox, Playstation Sold
- Movie2K Down: The Mystery and Possible Reincarnation Revealed
- CBS Tells Court: No One Could Possibly Read Our Statements 'We Will Sue Aereo' To Mean We Will Sue Aereo
- 'FBI' computer virus nearly scares Staten Islander out of $475; don't be a victim
- Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text—"I appreciate the willingness of the USTR to make various documents available for review by members of Congress, but I do not believe that is a substitute for more robust public transparency. If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States."
- Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits—"The threat is that citizens will be annoying and get in the way and demand that their governments take action. So what corporations need is to become more powerful than sovereign states. And the way they become more powerful is by tangling sovereign states in a web of these trade agreements."
- TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty
- Megaupload court victory: New Zealand High Court orders police to return digital materials to Kim Dotcom - at their own cost
- Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV
- Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom opens up about extradition fight—"Dotcom says his website was offered up 'on a silver platter' as part of negotiations with" Warner Brothers executives who asked New Zealand prime minister John Key to help them deal with Megaupload.
- Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions Of License Fees
- Chris Ruen Is Taking the Anti-Piracy Argument Back from the Music Industry
- Meet The Artist Who Says Lady Gaga Ripped Her Off
- Pianist Krystian Zimerman storms out over phone recording
- India: Music lovers, copyright law is here, and it's punitive—"Those who plan on playing copyrighted music loudly at a public place without paying the fee for it, be warned. There is a new sheriff in town and you might just be jailed for violating intellectual property rights."
- Why cable companies aren’t scared of you dropping your pay TV service
- Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV—"Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel Corp. and Apple Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said."
- Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel—"Intel's plan to create a virtual cable service is running up against a barricade being guarded by cable and satellite distributors." NYT
- New Xbox 'a sin against all service members'
- Anonymous Xbox engineer explains DRM and Microsoft's Xbox One intentions
- Are These Real Answers, or Fake Questions, in This Xbox One Document?—Check it out yourself.
- Demonstrators march for Snowden in Hong Kong—Inspiring to see them pushing back. NYT
- NSA Leaker Snowden's Whereabouts Unknown, White House Chief Says
- Six reasons why choosing Hong Kong is a brilliant move by Edward Snowden
- Snowden leak: GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits—"Phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009."
- DOJ Falsely Claimed That Reporter James Rosen Was Involved In Bombings In Trying To Hide Fact It Spied On Him
- From Ike to "The Matrix": Welcome to the American dystopia—"Part Orwellian security state, part Huxley wonderland and part "Matrix," America is three dystopias in one!" Salon
- The Real War on Reality—"The outsize role of private intelligence firms and their willingness to manufacture 'truth' constitutes a sort of epistemic warfare." NYT
- Woz: This is not my America—"Stopped by Spanish language tech journalists at an airport, the Apple co-founder says that after the NSA revelations, he questions his own government and wonders whether it's behaving like a king."
- 3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so
- The NSA Scandal Violates the Lessons of Our History and Our Constitution
- NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants—"National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too." Update: Rep. Nadler has since issued a retraction and CNET has altered their story to reflect that.
- US NSA 'probed fewer than 300 phone calls'
- What do They know about you? An interview with NSA analyst William Binney
- Dick Cheney praises NSA surveillance program—The former Vice President also called Edward Snowden a 'traitor,' and President Obama 'not credible.'" Salon
- NSA Scandal Separates Liberty Lovers from Poseurs
- PRISM Is Just Part Of A Much Larger, Scarier Government Surveillance Program—"Which involves 'real-time monitoring on the Internet backbone'" and sucking up big data.
- PRISM helped stop terrorism in US and 20-plus countries, NSA document argues
- The NSA has us snared in its trap – and there's no way out—"A boycott of Facebook, Microsoft, Google et al is easy to talk about, but almost impossible to achieve."
- Facebook: U.S. gov't requested data on 18K-19K users in last half of 2012
- NSA gets early access to zero-day data from Microsoft, others—"Meant to help secure network, data could be used to attack foreign governments."
- Microsoft Waits to Fix Your Software Bugs So the NSA Can Use Them First
- Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy
- Google opts out of FISA disclosure deal made by Facebook and Microsoft, calls it 'a step back for users;' Twitter agrees
- These Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You’re A Terrorist
- Funny or Die: Hey NSA...
