Law & Disorder
Posts mostly cover Internet and intellectual property law. The name is Latin-derived for the "art of technology"
Author: Among others, this blawg is written by Ars Technica staffers: senior editor and co-founder Jon Stokes, managing editor Eric Bangeman, associate editor Nate Anderson assistant editor Jacqui Cheng, science editor John Timmer and gaming staff writer Frank Caron. "Our editorial team is at home on Linux, Mac, and Windows; they know both the home and the enterprise; they understand law and politics; and they specialize in bringing readers the right answer, the first time."
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Recent Posts from Law & Disorder
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Week in tech: sexy bootlegged Star Trek slumber party edition
Tales of Star Trek piracy and sexy slumber party pics topped the week's tech and science stories. Here's what was hot over the past seven days.Two high school student athletes got in hot water after…
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EU adopts "Internet freedom" provision on Internet cut-offs
For weeks, the major governing institutions of the European Union have been locked in a battle over three-strikes laws, Internet disconnections, and the appropriate role of judges in the process. Just after midnight last night,…
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Judge hits Beatles MP3 seller with restraining order
The wheels of justice don't always turn slowly. Only two days after music label EMI asked a federal judge to stop BlueBeat.com from selling The Beatles' newly remastered albums online at a quarter a track,…
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Bill could kill ISP safe harbor in cases of financial fraud
In the wake of the collapse of many a 401k and a Ponzi scheme or three, it's no surprise that a bill called the Investor Protection Act of 2009 has attracted significant support in Congress.…
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Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales
UpdateA federal judge has issued a restraining order against BlueBeat.com and its parent companyOriginal storyWhen the news broke earlier this week that the so-famous-you've-never-heard-of-it BlueBeat.com was both streaming and selling The Beatles remasters—and for 25¢…
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Does the RIAA let defaulters off the hook?
The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea. When we last looked into this issue just over a month…
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Record labels keep blaming P2P, but it's a hard sell
In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales, music's international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. "The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK…
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The Web may have won, but Gopher tunnels on
gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands,…
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Big Content: Using "moral panics" to change copyright law
William Patry might not look from the outside like a man with a fire in his belly. A copyright lawyer for 27 years, Patry has written one of two definitive accounts of US copyright law…
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Cable modem hacking expert indicted on fraud charges
Ryan Harris—known by the alias DerEngel—is an expert on cable modem hacking, an art that he describes at length in a 2006 instructional guide that was published by No Starch Press. He runs a small…