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Cyberculture agenda: “Copyright Law and Scholarly Communication…Allegations about the Silk Road founder…

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We’re TPP Activists: Reddit Asked Us Everything As another of round of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings began in Salt Lake City this week, EFF joined Knowledge Ecology International, Public Citizen, Techdirt, andOpen Media, in a Reddit AMA (?Ask Me Anything?) to answer users’ questions about the leaked TPP ?Intellectual Property? chapter. Alleged Silk Road founder?s matter-of-fact journal details accounting, bug fixes and murders Details … Read more

Google wins the Landmark Copyright Case… TPP leak… Cyberculture agenda…

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Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case Google’s massive book-scanning project that makes complete copies of books without the authors’ permission is perfectly legal under U.S. copyright law, a federal judge ruled today, deciding an 8-year-old legal battle. Google Finally Gets Legal OK to Scan the World?s Books Larry Page?s dream of making … Read more

Meet Robocoin, the World’s First Bitcoin ATM… A cyberculture roundup…

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Take a Tour of Robocoin, the World’s First Bitcoin ATM Meet the Robocoin: the world’s first bitcoin ATM. It went live last night, after an afternoon of tinkering and testing at the downtown cafe that’s now its home. Online Anonymity Is Not Only for Trolls and Political Dissidents David Plotz: People have a misguided belief in it, … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: LSE research shows piracy isn’t killing big content…Twitter IPO… Anonymous members indicted…

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  London School of Economics: piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims Copyright and Creation, a policy brief from a collection of respected scholars at the rock-ribbed London School of Economics, argues that the evidence shows that piracy isn’t causing any grave harm to the entertainment industry, and that anti-piracy … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Amazon employees stage second one-day strike in Germany, Samsung Galaxy S4 vs HTC One…

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Amazon employees stage second one-day strike in Germany over pay and working conditions Amazon employees working at a distribution center in Leipzig, Germany are staging a second strike today over their wages and benefits packages. HOW TO: Avoid Facebook Scams Scams are all over Facebook. There are stories telling users that Facebook will end on … Read more

Video: Anakata Says Thanks From Prison

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here is the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nStPFNOyQ   Video: Pirate Bay Founder Thanks Supporters From Inside Prison from TorrentFreak by Andy   ****************   America’s six-strikes copyright system is a nightmare from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A post on Slashdot by Dangerous_Minds links to a parade of horrors with the new “Copyright Alert System” — … Read more

A cyberculture roundup: William Gibson on Twitter,Twitter Surrenders OCW proster’s data, Clouds and more…

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William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions from Wired Top Stories by Geeta Dayal William Gibson once spent nearly five years studying the complexities of watchmaking, indulging in the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. “I wanted to grow my own otaku-like obsession,” he said in a phone interview with Wired. Part … Read more

New heights at Copyright trolling: “YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds- American elections roundup

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Congress releases report on the effects of patent trolls, could this mean litigation? from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Singel A seemingly rogue copyright complaint brought down the Obama campaign’s live feed of its own convention Tuesday night, just minutes … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: most torrents are monitored, and much more..

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New research: Most top torrents are monitored, your IP address can be logged within three hours from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski If you?ve downloaded a popular torrent in the last three years, you may have had your IP address logged and your activities monitored, according to new research. Computer scientists from the University … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Ecuador to Britain: ‘Colonial times are over’…”Key moments in WikiLeaks history…

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WikiLeaks Timeline: Key moments in WikiLeaks history GlobalPost Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks to demonstrators from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in central London on Oct. 15, 2011. … May 2010: US Army soldier Bradley Manning is arrested on suspicion of providing WikiLeaks with classified material. Ecuadorians weigh in on Assange ‘Colonial times are … Read more

Cool! “WikiLeaks wins court case against VISA Iceland”, How the record industry killed legal P2P… and a cyberculture roundup…

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WikiLeaks Wins Battle Against Visa, MasterCard by Alex Fitzpatrick WikiLeaks wins court case against VISA Iceland for blocking funds from The Next Web by Jamillah Knowles   Member of European Parliament sends “Thank you for fighting ACTA” email with 2K emails on the CC line by Cory Doctorow Lee sez, As part of my protest … Read more

http://194.71.107.80/ The Pirate Bay’s IP address… a cyberculture roundup

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Pirate Bay announces new IP address, proxy-friendly design from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Courts around the world have instituted censorship regimes that require ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. In response, TPB has added a new IP address (194.71.107.80) by which it can be reached. It also has a new design that is especially … Read more

First Kopimism wedding, US’ “clunky” cyberstrategy and more…

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File-Sharing Church Weds First Couple from TorrentFreak by Ernesto All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities. But while copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act.   Kopimism: File-Sharing Religion … Read more

a Cyberculture roundup: US copyright enemies list, Facebook ‘Organ Donor’, Digital Activism, CISPA, the Pirate Bay

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US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report [an annual enemies list of countries judged not to be doing enough to police US copyrights] yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority … Read more