Companies unite to slam patent reform bill
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| More than 430 organizations and companies representing over 25 industries
| have written to Senate leaders criticizing pending legislation to reform the
| US patent system
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http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1629799
The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent
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| The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects,
| but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be the future
| of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new
| protocol - which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sees-a-future-without-bittorrent-071030
Recent:
(Mis)understandings of the words “intellectual property”
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| Then there’s the Lone Cypress, a tree along California’s famous 17-Mile
| Drive. It’s probably the most infamous example of someone trying to exert
| ridiculous intellectual property rights. They must’ve made it sound like a
| good idea, though, because it seems that the idea of copyrighting trees is
| catching on.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/19/misunderstandings-of-the-words-%e2%80%9cintellectual-property%e2%80%9d/
TorrentSpy Traffic Plunges After US Ban
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| The MPAA has caused TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent site, some
| serious headaches. After a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to log all user
| data stored in RAM, they decided to block access to US users, consequently
| their traffic dropped significantly.
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http://torrentfreak.com/torrentspy-traffic-plunges-after-us-ban-071006/
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
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