Tag Archives: Law

Tomorrow is Internet Censorship Day!

By C.G. | Published: November 15, 2011

Tomorrow is Internet Censorship Day where people who believe in free speech online highlight the dangers the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act introduce to the Constitution and our free market – especially in entrepreneurial Silicon Valley. Brad Feld has a collection of links in his post where people can read up [...]

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Know Your Digital Rights

By C.G. | Published: June 27, 2011

The EFF has released a ‘Digital Rights Guide‘ to educate people on how to respond to a police search of your phone, laptop, iPad, Kindle, cell phone, or USB drive. They also have a quiz to test your knowledge on the subject. I thought I knew my rights but I got most of the questions [...]

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Update On The FBI Raid That Took An Instapaper Server

By C.G. | Published: June 27, 2011

Marco Arment, who’s Instapaper servers were accidentally taken during a poorly executed FBI raid, writes in an update: “DigitalOne’s CEO, Sergei Arsentiev, informed me in an email last night that the FBI agents only took one enclosure containing 16 HP C7000 blade servers (including the one I was leasing), but that my server’s two hard [...]

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What Screwing Artists Kind Of Does

By C.G. | Published: June 24, 2011

This was a fast moving story yesterday so there’s a good change you’ve heard about Andy Baio. In case you don’t. he was sued by Jay Maisel for copyright infringement when Baio transformed his picture of Miles Davis into 8-bit pixel art for a music project he was working on in his spare time. Maisel [...]

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DOJ Applying US Law to UK Citizens; Seeks Extradition

By C.G. | Published: June 17, 2011

The DOJ is looking to extradite a UK student on copyright violations. What he’s accused of doing is legal in the UK but, I guess, not in the US. This is a dangerous act of legal tourism and if we’re not careful, we’ll be on the receiving end of similar treatment if the DOJ doesn’t [...]

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