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Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
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| The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website
| which will almost certainly prove to be controversial. The new feature is a
| link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the
| particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin to
| download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a
| torrent client is installed.
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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/30/controversy-over-new-pirate-bay-facebook-feature
Senators counter performance royalty bill
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| Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and John Barrasso (R-WY) have taken the Local Radio
| Freedom Act, which has been gaining steady momentum in the House, and
| introduced it into the Senate. It would prevent any attempt to impose
| performance royalties on broadcast stations. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK ) is on
| board as original co-sponsor.
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http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/13754.html
Recent:
EFF: claim that consent needed for linking is "preposterous"
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| BlockShopper's transgression, such as it is, appears to be the posting of
| public information. The site shows which partners, lawyers, philanthropists,
| and executives have purchased properties in specific city neighborhoods, and
| it incurred Jones Day's legal wrath after showing the new purchases of two
| Jones Day lawyers. The company sued on trademark grounds, claiming that the
| use of its name and web link on the site were illegal.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080923-eff-claim-that-consent-needed-for-linking-is-preposterous.html
Sheboygan women files landmark case over Web links
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| That’s the question at the center of a federal lawsuit brought by a Sheboygan
| woman against the mayor and other officials there, in what appears to be a
| first-of-its-kind case, according to an Internet law expert.
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| Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove
| from her Web site a link to the city’s police department, in what she
| believes was retaliation for her support of recalling Mayor Juan Perez,
| according to the suit filed last week.
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http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=786584
MPAA Sues Two Movie Sites
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| The MPAA says the sites contribute to and profit from copyright infringement
| by identifying, posting, and indexing links to infringing content on the
| Internet allowing people to then view on-demand.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/07/30/mpaa-sues-two-movie-sites
http://tinyurl.com/6nadoe
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