Trouble with Telcos, Scammers, Passwords, Cybersecurity, Malware, Patent Trolls, Patent System, Patently Ridiculous

Trouble with Telcos

• Competitive wireless carriers bash AT&T/Verizon 'duopoly'
• How Mobile Carriers Are Making Customers Pay For Safety--Why pay $5 a month to AT&T to block phone numbers, when this should be built-in to any smartphone?
• Why Your Phone, Cable & Internet Bills Cost So Much
• Whistleblower sacked over BT rural broadband leak
• Star Trek Captains hate Time Warner Cable!

Scammers

• Regulators smash global phone tech support scam operation
• Telemarketers Recorded Through Virtual Machine
• 'Scareware' trickster fined $163m by US authorities
• "I am calling you from Windows": A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica
• Scam involves negative online reviews--"A company is putting horrible reviews of small business online, and then offering to improve the company's reputation and take the reviews off for a fraction of the cost that a real reputation improvement company would charge."

Passwords

• Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger
• Advice from a Hacker on Picking a Good Password
• How Secure Are You Online: The Checklist
• How I cracked my neighbor’s WiFi password without breaking a sweat
• Widely used fingerprint reader exposes Windows passwords in seconds
• OSX Password Hack Everyone Should Know
• Online passwords: keep it complicated--"By now, you probably have about 20 different passwords you're struggling to remember. There must be an easier way. How do you stay one step ahead of the hackers – and still stay sane?"

Cybersecurity

• Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth
• The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
• Hacked Apple Device IDs Came From App Publisher, FBI Link Disputed--What can't be disputed is how plausible it was that the FBI was behind this. It was pretty cool how the breach was tracked.
• Yet another Java flaw allows "complete" bypass of security sandbox
• Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts Are Easily Hijacked
• Trade group exposes 100,000 passwords for Google, Apple engineers
• White House says it was targeted by a phishing attempt, widely reported as a Chinese hack

Malware

• Microsoft discovers Chinese malware pre-installed on new PCs
• "Ransomware" Worm Now Spreading On Skype--Time to update.
• Sophos Antivirus Detects Itself as Malware, Deletes Key Binaries

Patent Trolls

• AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents--Can this crowdsourcing effort kill patent trolls?
• Pioneering patent troll seeks the Supreme Court's ear—plus a cool $12 million
• Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits

Patent System

• How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system--"Federal Circuit Appeals Court marks 30 years of spreading the 'patent gospel.'"
• UK: James Dyson calls for reform to patent system--"Sir James Dyson has called on the Government to simplify the patent system so small businesses can afford to protect their designs."
• The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
• The Case Against Patents--"The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded – which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity."
• When Patents Become Weapons--Swords against competition. NYT

Patently Ridiculous

• Apple's wireless phone disabling patent
• GoDaddy Receives Patent On 'Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website'--So GoDaddy can sue anyone announcing any URL on Twitter or Facebook?
• Sony patent wants to make advertising more interactive
• International Trade Commission To Ban Importation of LED Production Lighting
• 'Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on [patents] exceeded spending on research and development of new products'

Family Day, Twins, Rearing, No Kids Allowed, Educamation, Sports & Recreation, Student Loans

Family Day

• Lost Boy Uses Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years
• Charity cyclist shocked as parents fly 4000 miles to play prank on him
• Grandma, baby, doing fine after nine-month 'rental'--"A Maine woman bears her own grandson when pregnancy is ruled out for her daughter due to an illness."
• After 30 Years Apart, Brother and Sister George Bentley and Sarah Kemp Reunite on Bizarre Blind Date
• Two brothers, a filmmaker and a comedian decided to do director's commentary on some old family videos
• Cousins that are siblings, Identical twin sisters and mothers, Alternative (and parallel) universes
• Genealogy--Now you can find out how some can be your great uncle twice twice removed.

Twins

• Black and white twins
• Photos reveal differences between twins
• Identical twin's headaches lead to life-saving discovery of tumour

Rearing

• How Children Succeed--"Which matters more, cognitive ability or motivation?"
• A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children--"My daughter was one of tens of thousands of students isolated or restrained by teachers." NYT
• Many employers still unaware of NY nanny law

No Kids Allowed

• No Children Allowed: New 'Quiet Zone' on Airline AirAsia
• Should there be child-free zones on planes and trains?--Yes.
• Berlin Café Under Fire for Über-Purist Stance--"To some people, a café without music, laptops, or strollers to stumble over might sound like the perfect place to relax. But parents in Berlin have complained they feel discriminated against by a new coffee shop with incredibly strict rules."

Educamation

• US & the World: Who's the leader in education?--"Americans often think we are Number 1 in some area, but in fact we are not. This is true for American kids and their assessment of their math literacy. It's also true for anyone who ignores or rejects evidence showing that America doesn't rank at the top in many areas."
• Shakespeare removed from school curriculum in favor of Hunger Games and Twilight--In the immortal words of Ralph Wiggum, "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
• Microsoft calls for $5B investment in U.S. education

Sports & Recreation

• 297-lb Texas boy too big to play peewee football--6'1" at 12 years old.
• Doctor Says No Tackling Should Be Allowed In Youth Football
• Trampolines are no place for kids, docs warn
• Hockey coach trips teen player
• NYC gym teacher claims 6-year-old student beat him up

Student Loans

• College students defaulting at record rate
• No Income? No Problem! How the Gov't Is Saddling Parents with College Loans They Can't Afford
• NYU Professor: Are Student Loans Immoral?--"Millions of grads are saddled with unpayable student loans, yet colleges still say they're a sound investment. NYU professor Andrew Ross asks if it's time to stop repaying the loans."
• Stop calling student loans "financial aid"--"Students who take out loans aren't receiving special favors. They're making a financial transaction like any other." Salon
• Jest.com: Grad School Scam

Dead Trees, Price Fixing, e-Media, Amazon.com, Wikitroubles, Wikipedia, Printer

Dead Trees

• Wondering How Far Magazines Must Fall NYT
• Magazines: Hey, look at us!--"As magazines struggle, they're resorting to sensationalism on their covers -- and the Web loves to take the bait." Salon
• Why newspapers must raise their price
• Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry
• Rupert Murdoch Admits Defeat: Now Wants London Times To Appear In Search Results

Price Fixing

• Own e-books? Publishers to pay back millions over price fixing charges--"Another battle in the long war over who gets to set e-book prices."
• Apple, publishers offer antitrust concessions: source
• Judge Quickly Approves Ebook Pricing Settlement; Says It's In The Public Interest To Stop Price Fixing
• History will show journalists missed the big Amazon story today: ebook discounting is back
• That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers' ebooks--Halle-fucking-lujah. Check out this nifty chart.

e-Media

• Self-published e-book author: 'Most of my months are six-figure months'
• How to Make a Book Disappear--"Jonah Lehrer's discredited Imagine has vanished from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and his publisher's website. Why that's bad news for readers."
• Google, Publishers Settle Seven Year-Long Book Scanning Lawsuit

Amazon.com

• Why PC Companies Fear Amazon
• Amazon Lending - Amazon starts loaning capital to sellers to help them scale
• How our startup took on Amazon… and won
• Amazon backtracks, will offer $15 opt-out for ads on Kindle Fire tablets--"After negative feedback on forced ads, the company reverses course and will allow users to opt-out of 'Special Offer' ads -- for a fee."
• Kindles are shown the automatic sliding door at Walmart--"The people of Walmart have voted, Amazon's devices aren't fit for the chain."

Wikitroubles

• Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
• How Gibraltar Provoked an Existential Crisis for Wikipedia
• Wikipedia honcho caught in scandal quits, defends paid edits
• Wikipedia's "Pay-for-Play" Scandal Highlights Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities
• Wikipedia Is Running Out of Editors and Admins--And they're getting harder to find.

Wikipedia

• Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
• You Can Now Make Your Own Free eBook Out of Wikipedia Articles
• The Onion: Wikipedia Offline After Cables Cut

Printer

• Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution
• Scumbag Printer
• HP Introduces Nano Sponge

Bill Nye the Science Guy, Creationism, Educamation, Sex Abuse Scandal, Butler, Catholic Guilt, Christianity, Ecce Mono

Bill Nye the Science Guy

• Bill Nye on the dangers of creationism
• Bill Nye the Science Guy defends anti-creationist video
• Bill Nye: Creationism Threatens U.S. Science

Creationism

• Science-vs.-Religion Rigidity May Help Perpetuate Creationism, Other Antiscience Beliefs
• Kansas' evolution debate just keeps evolving
• Kentucky Evolution Fight: GOP Lawmakers Upset State Exams Test Students On 'Made Up' Theory
• Creationists Boycott Dr. Pepper over "Evolution of Flavor" Facebook Ad
• Science wins over creationism in South Korea--"Government asks publishers to retain examples of evolution in science textbooks."

Educamation

• 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools--"Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime." And 99% of them are religious.
• What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?
• Colbert skewers Texas GOP on 'critical thinking'--"And you know who I blame? I blame Galileo.... For centuries we had a perfectly good explanation for the order of the universe. Bible says the sun goes around the Earth, making us the center of the universe. And you know what? Everyone was happy. And then numnuts over here gets a telescope for Christmas, uses his precious critical thinking skills and suddenly the Earth goes around the sun, blah blah blah and now we have lesbians."

Sex Abuse Scandal

• Australian Roman Catholic Church admits child sex abuse--"The Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria has confirmed that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by its priests since the 1930s."
• Joliet Diocese: Bishop Can't Be Removed From Ministry Despite Having Molested Boy--"The bishop says Rome has decided that at the time Ryan allegedly molested a teen, what he did was not considered a serious crime by the Church according to Church law at the time [...] actually said a 14-year-old was at an age of consent."
• Psychologist provides analysis of Catholic church's sex abuse scandal

Butler

• Pope is both victim and supreme judge in trial of ex-butler accused of leaking documents
• Paolo Gabriele trial: Pope butler evidence thrown out
• Can the Vatican Survive the Age of Digital Media?

Catholic Guilt

• In final interview, liberal Cardinal says Church '200 years out of date'--"Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and our cassocks are pompous."
• German Catholics lose church rights for unpaid tax--Unsurprisingly, they're not happy about it.
• Bishop urges support for controversial Amendment 8--"Catholic Bishop John Noonan on Monday urged local Catholics to support a controversial measure on the November ballot that would delete the 'no aid' provision of Florida's constitution that prevents state support of religious institutions."

Christianity

• Son of a bigot--"His dad founded the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. Nate Phelps is dedicated to reversing that legacy of hate." Salon
• Surge in Satanism sparks rise in demand for exorcists, says Catholic Church
• Blast from the Past: Dude, is snowboarding spiritual?--"A snowboarding priest from British Columbia has earned what could well be the first-ever doctorate in the sport for his exploration of spirituality on the slopes."

Ecce Mono

• Botched restoration turns Spanish church into tourist attraction
• Spanish woman who disfigured painting of Christ lawyers up, wants money
• Beast Jesus Halloween Costume Is Surely The Best We've Ever Seen

Happy World Space Week! NASA, Extraterrestrial, Matter, Big Bang Theories, Black Holes, Galaxies, The Universe

Happy World Space Week!

NASA

• Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
• Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station
• What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?

Extraterrestrial

• Curiosity Mars rover beams images of ancient streambed--But there's already evidence of water on Mars.
• Buddhist 'Iron Man' found by Nazis is from space
• Astronomers Discover Impossible Binary Systems
• No bomb powerful enough to destroy an on-rushing asteroid, sorry Bruce Willis--I was told there would be no math.
• Cassini and Voyager

Matter

• Milestone in Higgs quest: Scientists find new particle
• IU mathematician offers unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field equations
• Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life

Big Bang Theories

• Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI--"Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the universe, is, well, wrong."
• Big Bang theory a bust: Scientist claims there's something out there
• "Big Bang or the Big Bounce?" --New Science Points to a Continuum
• Big Bang Was Actually a Phase Change, New Theory Says
• 'Rewriting' the Big Bang theory – a personal perspective

Black Holes

• Astronomers see ANOTHER star ripped apart by a black hole!
• Supermassive black holes and hot galaxies in giant haul
• Ingredients for Big Black Holes Detected in Milky Way's Core

Galaxies

• Milky Way Will Collide with Andromeda
• Milky Way still recovering from mysterious impact, scientists say
• Milky Way's missing atoms may be in a hot cloud surrounding us
• First spiral galaxy in early Universe stuns astronomers--It's the oldest prominent yet.
• Magellanic Clouds-Milky Way System's Twins Found

The Universe

• Hubble captures extraordinary view of Universe
• The Scale of the Universe
• How to measure the size of the Universe
• The universe is smooth, not a fractal at large scales, say astronomers
• Could 'Mirror Neutrons' Account for Unobservable Dark Matter?

Surveillance Society, Recording, Police Accountability, Righting Injustice, Botched, Lawbook, Law and Disorder

Surveillance Society

• ACLU forces government to reveal skyrocketing surveillance stats
• California Governor Vetoes Landmark Location-Privacy Law
• Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away
• The Surveillance Economy--"The Wall Street Journal has cataloged more than 20 different ways information about people can be recorded during everyday activities. See below to find out which ones apply to you." WSJ
• UK: Airport ditches controversial bodyscanners--"Body scanners which critics claim invaded personal privacy have been withdrawn by Manchester Airport."

Recording

• Cop accused of tackling 15-year-old in retaliation for videotaping
• #PeacefulStreets Project: More Unconstitutional Copwatching Arrests in Austin
• D.C. officer illegally seized camera phone, ACLU suit alleges
• Texas Police Kill Unarmed Man Before Confiscating Witness Camera and Deleting Images
• NOPD, JPSO investigating tasing incident involving two Jefferson deputies--"One of the brothers, Sean Warren, 39, said he wasn't initially involved in the fracas, but that deputies punched him in the mouth and tackled him after they noticed he was videotaping them as they beat his brother, Casey Warren, 35."
• Cop Claims Teen Assaulted Him, Video Shows He Assaulted Teen
• Corrupt South African policemen recorded on a cell phone

Police Accountability

• Man can sue LAPD over allegedly forced confession, court says
• Mass Arrests At 2004 Republican Convention Ruled Illegal
• Court Rules Chicago Cops Can't Arrest People For Being Annoying
• Judge throws out Occupy Chicago arrests
• Federal judge blasts St. Louis police board

Righting Injustice

• Freed after almost 32 years behind bars
• Ohio Inmate Freed After Twenty Four Years On Death Row
• Man set free after 19 years in prison; D.A. admits witness lied--"A Los Angeles man serving a life sentence for murder was released Monday after prosecutors conceded that their star witness had perjured himself."
• Death row inmate walks free due to DNA evidence--"Death row inmate Damon Thibodeaux walked free after 15 years behind bars after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his cousin...."
• Man wrongfully sentenced to death to speak in Arkansas--"Ray Krone’s world was turned upside down in 1992 when an Arizona jury sentenced him to death for a murder he did not commit"
• Chicago: Finance Committee OKs $3.2 Million Payment To Man Cleared Of 2002 Murder
• Wrongly convicted man's suit proceeds against interrogator--"A police investigator has lost his bid for dismissal of a civil rights action against him stemming from his polygraph examination and interrogation of a Westchester County man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a high school classmate."

Botched

• Chemist's education questioned in drug lab scandal--" A chemist whose alleged mishandling of drug samples has thrown thousands of criminal cases into question testified under oath that she holds a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, but school officials say they have no record of her receiving an advanced degree or taking graduate courses there."
• "Not adequate": Private forensic firm botched DNA test which led to innocent man being held for seven weeks for rape
• Monroe crime lab analyst botched DNA tests
• DNA test jailed innocent man for murder
• Blast from the Past: Metro reviewing DNA cases after error led to wrongful conviction--"A DNA mix-up caused by human error that led to the wrongful conviction of a man has prompted Metro Police to reanalyze more than 200 cases handled by a forensic scientist...."

Lawbook

• Facebook becomes gang's stomping ground -- and demise--The NYPD is watching.
• Jurors's Facebook friendship puts murder trial into question
• Lawyer's Facebook photo causes mistrial in Miami-Dade murder case
• Judge Orders Woman To Delete Her Facebook Page For Typing LOL About Her DUI
• Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands

Law and Disorder

• Police launched investigation into the 'suspicious' moon--"The officer was a little reluctant to come back on duty the next day."
• With officers forbidden from carrying guns, New Mexico town's police force goes to the dog
• Juror says he's too homophobic and racist to serve, now faces prosecution
• Verdict in: Peterson Jury United on Clothes--"One expects coordinated outfits from cheerleaders, fast-food workers, military units — clowns even. It fosters unity of purpose, team spirit. But color-coordinated jurors? And at a murder trial, no less?"
• 'Missing' woman unknowingly joins search for herself

Abortion and Birth Control, International, Rape, Gender, Comics, Disney Princesses

Abortion and Birth Control

• GOP Delegate Says that Children with Disabilities are God's Punishment for Past Abortions--He's apologized for this sort of thing before.
• Parents, doctors allege sex-ed courses violate state law--"...by only teaching about abstinence and failing to include instruction about condoms and contraception."
• Pregnant at 49 NYT
• Red States = Teen Moms--I'm shocked--SHOCKED--that lack of proper sex education and access to real contraception leads to higher incidence of teen pregnancies.
• Blast from the Past: Do they really believe that abortion is murder?

International

• Clinton, others announce contraception deal--"Prices for long-acting contraception will be halved for 27 million women in the developing world through a new partnership...." But the Catholic Church is pushing back.
• UK: Sarah Catt jailed for full-term abortion of baby--One of the judges is linked to a conservative Christian charity.
• Uruguay lawmakers vote to legalize abortion
• Canada: Motion to study when life begins defeated in Parliament
• In Philippines, a 14-year fight for birth control--Catholic Church has been pushing back big-time.

Rape

• Father sells off rape victim following village meeting
• Outrage as Tunisia woman raped by police is accused--"Tunisian civil society groups expressed outrage on Wednesday after a young woman was accused of indecency by two policemen jailed for raping her, amid criticism of the Islamist-led government for rolling back women's rights."
• Aussia aid worker's family angry with DFAT--Alexandra Pippi cannot leave the country, and "Pippi's family believe the incident is connected to rumours that she had been sexually assaulted by a senior Libyan health official."

Gender

• 1,000 Nigerian Women Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia Because They Aren't Traveling with Men
• Harassment of women may be getting more violent, but activists are fighting back
• Ikea deleted women from Saudi version of catalogue
• Sexist remarks and wolf-whistles could become criminal offences--"PM to announce today that UK will sign up to Council of Europe's convention on violence against women, which could mean criminalising unwanted verbal conduct."
• Deutsche Bank Accused of Retaliation After Firing VP Who Sued for Being 'Mommy-Tracked'

Comics

• Wonder Woman leaps onto Ms. magazine's 40th anniversary cover
• DC Listens To Internet Criticism, Fixes 'Catwoman' Zero Cover
• Women Avengers... Assemble?

Disney Princesses

• Portrait of a Princess
• Oh No They Didn't! - Advice for young girls from a Disney princess
• The Hipster Disney Princesses Are Too Cool To Follow The Bouncing Ball In Their Own Sing-Along Video
• Disney princesses with a Hot Topic filter
• Disney Females Brought to Life
• Evil Disney Princesses
• Real-Life Disney Princesses

Your Rights Online, Megaupload, Killbots, Copyfight, Copywrong, Music, Piracy, Trademark

Your Rights Online

• Cleansing the Internet of Terrorism: EU-Funded Project Seeks To Erode Civil Liberties
• Mikulski joins chorus calling for cybersecurity executive order--"Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is urging President Obama to issue an executive order on cybersecurity, saying the country can't wait for Congress to act."
• Pirate Bay Founder Remains Locked Up Without Charges--"Gottfrid Svartholm will be kept in detention for at least two more weeks on suspicion of hacking into a Swedish IT company connected to the country’s tax authorities. According to Prosecutor Henry Olin the extended detention is needed 'to prevent him from having contact with other people.' The Pirate Bay co-founder is not allowed to have visitors and is even being denied access to newspapers and television."
• Big Brother still watching: Internet censorship on the up, report says
• Estonia gets highest marks in internet freedom
• Australian Securities and Investment Commission chimes in on data retention, seeks more intercept powers
• Philippines: Who inserted that libel clause in the Cybercrime Law at the last minute?--A thin-skinned and inarticulate senator's crusade to stamp out online criticism against him is troubling for Filipino's free expression.

Megaupload

• Dotcom: Illegal spying revealed
• Kim Dotcom hints at suing Govt--And if he does, it will be the NZ taxpayers who'll be paying for it.
• NZ PM Key to Dotcom: I'm sorry

Killbots

• Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book
• The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords
• Automated DRM keeps spoiling the show, from the DNC to Mars
• Copyright Killbots Strike Again: Official DNC Livestream Taken Down By Just About Every Copyright Holder
• Warner Bros, Hotfile and EFF Fight Over Bogus Automated Takedown Requests

Copyfight

• American court orders BBC to hand over Yasser Arafat documentary footage--"Ruling raises questions about the ability of the American justice system to seize material held by media outside the United States."
• Entertainment Industry Flips Out At The Good Parts Of Canada's New Copyright Law, Demands Changes Via TPP
• EU Court Asked To Rule On Legality Of Downloading From Illegal Sources
• Switzerland Questions Crazy Hollywood Claims About File Sharing... Ends Up On Congressional Watchlist
• File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal in Portugal
• Dutch court rules linking to photos is copyright infringement
• Panama Considering Legislation That Allows The Copyright Office To Pursue Filesharers Directly -- And Keep All The Fines

Copywrong

• Opinion: A Fair, Free Market Or The Copyright Monopoly?--"Increasingly, the copyright industry has tried to assert that 'the free market will sort it out' in the field of culture sharing. The problem is that the copyright industry's monopolized view is anything but a fair and free market."
• The Copyright Act Explicitly Says Disruptive Innovation Should Be Blocked--Will someone think of the buggy-whip business models?
• Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise
• Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter The Public Domain? The Data Says... No
• University Requires Students To Pay $180 For 'Art History' Text That Has No Photos Due To Copyright Problems--Imagination is still copyright-free, for now.
• Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished?
• YouTomb: Videos Removed for Copyright Complaint

Music

• BMG Demands $20 For Pirated Bruno Mars / Eminem Downloads
• BitTorrent Downloads Booming - And Benefitting Musicians
• Ed Sheeran finds 'balance' in pirated music
• 52 Ways to Screw an Artist, by Warner Bros. Records...
• Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done

Piracy

• Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads
• BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored
• Use The Pirate Bay? You’re being watched, study shows
• Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List
• Difference Engine: The PC all over again?--"Because of a 3D printer's ability to make perfect replicas, they will probably try to brand it a piracy machine."

Trademark

• 10 Colors That Might Get You Sued
• Trademark Abuse and the "Gaymer" Community
• IP High Court invalidates LAMBORMINI trademark
• Is Trademark Abuse Hurting Your Brand? Try Selling Soap In Pakistan.
• Blast from the Past: What's In Google's Name?