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India Claims To Have Cracked Blackberry Encryption; Proudly Spying On Emails
Date : 09 23 2008
TechdirtEarlier this year, India demanded that RIM allow it to easily snoop on any email messages sent via B read more »
Retailers Blame eBay For Driving Good People To Shoplift
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtWow. Earlier this year we wrote about a bill, basically pushed for by big offline retailers, that w read more »
Activision Begins Suing File Sharers [Updated]
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtWhile EA has faced a ton of backlash lately for its decision to use draconian DRM (though it's since read more »
Spain Recognizes That Deep Linking To Infringing Content Is Not Infringing
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtWhile other countries are still going back and forth on whether or not just linking to infringing co read more »
Rejected From College Because Of Your Facebook Profile?
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtWe've all seen the stories about potential dates or employers scanning your social network profiles read more »
MLB Backs Down When Someone It Bullies Explains Fair Use To Them
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtFor years now, Major League Baseball's online division, MLB.com, has been over aggressive in claimin read more »
Comcast Says No One Has Complained About Its New Traffic Slowing Efforts
Date : 09 23 2008 TechdirtLast month, Comcast, in addition to finally revealing the broadband caps it had always had, admitted read more »
As US Looks To Re-legalize Online Poker, Germany Bans It
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtJust as the US seems to be moving forward with efforts to relegalize online poker, it appears that G read more »
Arrested Malaysian Blogger Freed Following Public Outcry
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtIt's hard to figure out what the government of Malaysia is thinking in its ongoing trouble in dealin read more »
GAO Notes That Election Officials Not Informed About E-Voting Problems
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtBy now, it's pretty difficult to deny that most of the e-voting equipment out there has problems. W read more »
Grapes With An EULA
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtIn the ongoing trend of adding EULAs to tangible goods, Boing Boing points us to a photo highlightin read more »
Hollywood's Enforcer Also In The Porn Business?
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtMediaDefender, one of the companies that the entertainment industry uses to spoof files on file shar read more »
What's The Harm In Undisclosed Product Placement?
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtBack in June, we mentioned that the FCC was exploring whether or not to require any product placemen read more »
SanDisk Makes Music Even Less Convenient
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtSanDisk is getting a bunch of press for releasing what it's positioning as a new "format" for music. read more »
Is France Going To Ban Mentioning Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne And Cognac Online?
Date : 09 22 2008 TechdirtYou can understand why countries might have certain restrictions on alcohol advertising, but it woul read more »