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Online Gambling Deals Between US And Other Countries Are A Matter Of National Security?
Remember back in December, the EU, Canada and Japan suddenly agreed not to side with Antigua in the longstanding dispute over the US’s online gambling ban violating free trade agreements? It was pretty clear that the US had cut some sort of de...
Should We Privatize Copryight Registrations?
While you have to register a trademark or a patent (and go through an approval process) with the Patent and Trademark Office, the same is not true for copyright. Thanks to changes in copyright law a while back, any new creative work automatically re...
Cablevision Will Let You Watch Movies The Day Of Their Release, If You Buy The DVD
We were surprised that even Apple was forced by the movie industry to delay the release of online movie downloads until a month after the DVD release. This seemed totally pointless and self-defeating by the movie industry (though, hardly the first t...
eBay Bans Negative Feedback For Buyers; Everyone Be Good Now
eBay has been making some changes lately that aren’t sitting well with eBay sellers. First, it announced fee changes that initially were promoted as “lower fees,” but the details showed were only lower for goods that didn’t s...
Would You Believe That Microsoft Has Been Caught Exaggerating Concerning Copyright?
Microsoft has a decently long history of exaggerating the impacts of copyright infringement on its business, even as there’s a fair bit of evidence that the company has benefited greatly from lax enforcement of copyright. However, now the comp...
Did The Warranties Just Run Out On Undersea Cables?
If you’ve never read Neal Stephenson’s epic article from Wired magazine in 1996 about the laying of undersea fiber optic cable, I highly recommend you set aside some time to do so. Just a warning: set aside a lot of time. The article is...

