Posts Tagged with "copywrong"

Artists: We’re Not Salespeople, We’re Street Performers – Falkvinge on Infopolicy

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/07/artists-were-not-salespeople-were-street-performers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)

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Patent Privilege vs. “Saving Lives”

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://c4ss.org/content/17227?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: c4ss (Center for a Stateless Society)

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Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They Can Just Steal Somebody Else’s Work?

Monday, February 11, 2013

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http://falkvinge.net/2013/02/10/why-do-copyright-monopolists-think-they-can-just-steal-somebody-elses-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)

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LMAO: Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/06/1556238/site-copies-content-and-uses-the-dmca-to-take-down-the-original-articles

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Opera Web Browser Unblocks The Pirate Bay

Friday, July 6, 2012

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http://torrentfreak.com/unblock-the-pirate-bay-120705/

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Cyberlocker “Oron” Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit

Friday, July 6, 2012

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http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-offered-to-help-prosecute-users-to-settle-34-8m-copyright-suit-120706/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)

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One Man Army On a Mission To Destroy The Cyberlocker Market

Friday, July 6, 2012

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http://torrentfreak.com/one-man-army-on-a-mission-to-destroy-the-cyberlocker-market-120705/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)

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Who is Kim Dotcom?

Monday, January 23, 2012

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http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/who-is-kim-dotcom-20120121-1qb3k.html

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China tops U.S, Japan to become top patent filer

Friday, December 23, 2011

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-china-patents-idUSTRE7BK0LQ20111221

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RIAA wants ReDigi out of the business of selling “used” iTunes tracks

Friday, December 2, 2011

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/riaa-wants-redigi-out-of-the-business-of-selling-used-itunes-tracks.ars

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U.S. Senator Wyden Raises Questions About ACTA Implementation

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-13/U.S._Senator_Wyden_Raises_Questions_About_ACTA_Implementation.html

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EU Extends Copyright to 70 Years

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14829373

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FBI / IFPI Teach How To Bust Private Torrent Sites

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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http://girtabaix.tumblr.com/post/9750841339/fbi-ifpi-teach-how-to-bust-private-torrent-sites

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33GB of JSTOR Articles and a Manifesto

Monday, September 5, 2011

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http://www.feureau.com/2011/07/33gb-of-jstor-articles-and-manifesto.html

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Apple Asks US Government to use Weapons to Stop HTC Imports

Friday, July 22, 2011

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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/178169/20110711/apple-to-htc-stop-those-droid-flyer-sales.htm

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uTorrent / BitTorrent Sued For Patent Infringement

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-bittorrent-sued-for-patent-infringement-110619/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)

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Embed a Copyrighted Video, Go to Prison

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01515014500/senators-want-to-put-people-jail-embedding-youtube-videos.shtml

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Share Your Netflix Password, Go to Prison

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_hi_te/us_password_sharing_crackdown

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BitTorrent Lawsuit Victims Continue to Expose Themselves in Court Records

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=2195

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NYSE Claims Photos of Floor are “Trademarked”

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/nyse_tries_to_body_slam_tpm.php

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That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/23/6703177-that-famous-space-shuttle-photo-when-is-sharing-stealing

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RIAA boss takes home $3 mil+

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/22/riaa-boss-takes-home.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)

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Pornstar Takes Credit For Closure of World’s Largest Adult Torrent Site

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/pornstar-takes-credit-for-closure-of-worlds-largest-adult-torrent-site-110518/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)

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Misuse of 3-D digital lens leaves 2-D movies in the dark

Monday, May 23, 2011

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http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/05/22/misuse_of_3_d_digital_lens_leaves_2_d_movies_in_the_dark/?page=full …issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. Opening the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and if you don’t do it right, the machine will shut down on you.’’ The result, in his view, is that often the lens change isn’t made and “audiences are getting shortchanged.’’

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BitTorrent Traffic Surges After LimeWire Shutdown

Sunday, May 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-traffic-surges-after-limewire-shutdown-110517/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak) The bandwidth usage patterns during peak hours in North America reveal that a massive 52% of all upstream traffic can be attributed to BitTorrent at these times. This is up from 34% in 2010, and since it’s a relative comparison, the absolute traffic consumed by BitTorrent has risen even more.

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U.S. To Introduce Draconian Anti-Piracy Censorship Bill

Sunday, May 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-to-introduce-draconian-anti-piracy-censorship-bill-110511/ To quash allegedly copyright infringing sites more effectively U.S. lawmakers introduced the PROTECT IP Act last week. Aside from domain seizures, the new bill will also make it possible to block sites on an ISP level, to censor search engines, and to cut funding of allegedly copyright-infringing websites.

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Google Locks out Rooted Androids from Movie Service

Sunday, May 22, 2011

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http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1306490&topic=1100171

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French Hadopi “3 Strikes” Anti-Piracy Company Hacked

Sunday, May 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/french-hadopi-3-strikes-anti-piracy-company-hacked-110514/

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RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110517/22252614309/riaa-calls-4th-amendment-passe-pushes-warrantless-searches.shtml

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Google vows to fight antipiracy bill even if passed | Media Maverick – CNET News

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20063963-261.html

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Protect IP (fka COICA)

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/05/protect-ip-fka-coica.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AVc (A VC)&utm_content=Netvibes ..it provides for the ability of law enforcement officials, and even rights holders via injunctive actions, to meddle with the core architecture of the Internet, via shutting down domain name services (DNS), requiring “servers of links” to remove links to purportedly offending services, and by cutting off advertising and payment services.

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Unlicense.org » Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free

Friday, May 13, 2011

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http://unlicense.org/

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Licensed, License-Free, and Unlicensed Code – Arto Bendiken

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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http://ar.to/2010/12/licensing-and-unlicensing

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US Homeland Security Demands Mozilla Remove Firefox Extension That Redirects Seized Domains

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110505/14444714170/homeland-security-demands-mozilla-remove-firefox-extension-that-redirects-seized-domains.shtml Apparently, the folks at Homeland Security are not at all pleased with the very, very simple Firefox extension, called MAFIAAfire, that negates ICE’s domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alterna.te domains. Apparently, DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming that the add-on “circumvented” DHS’s seizure [...]

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Alongside Night Author to Sue United States for Copyright Infringement

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2010/05/alongside-night-author-to-sue-united-states-for-copyright-infringement/

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Software patents act as an innovation tax rather than as a catalyst for innovation

Monday, May 2, 2011

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http://thenoisychannel.com/2011/03/07/a-practical-rant-about-software-patents/

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The “book” is dead

Monday, May 2, 2011

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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/04/29/the-book-is-dead

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Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official

Sunday, May 1, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-police-arrested-movie-pirate-as-a-personal-favor-to-movie-official-110430/

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Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation

Sunday, May 1, 2011

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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5769/125/

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Snippet about Scarcity vs. Abundance in Copyright from the 1897 Copyright Commission in Great Britain

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110303/03533713353/discussions-about-scarcity-vs-abundance-copyright-century-ago-sound-just-like-those-today.shtml

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New York man faces five years in jail for Linking to online videos

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/10/new-york-man-faces-five-years-in-jail-for-linking-to-online-videos/ DHS, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seized Brian McCarthy’s domain, channelsurfing.net, in late January. The site has now been replaced with a government warning: “This domain has been seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations, Special Agent in Charge, New York Office.” “Based on my participation in the investigation leading to the [...]

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In a few years all e-books ever released will be downloadable in 5 seconds for free.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20033437-82.html

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Judge Lets Sony Unmask IP Addresses of Viewers of YouTube Videos

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/geohot-site-unmasking/

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Groundbreaking: Australia confirms ISPs are not Copyright Cops

Friday, February 25, 2011

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/australia-confirms-isps-are-not-copyright-cops.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

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Police Raid PS3 JailBreaker, Graf_Chokolo’s House. In Response Graf Releases “Hypervisor Bible” Info Bomb

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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http://psgroove.com/content.php?801-Police-Raid-Graf_Chokolo-s-House-In-Response-Graf-Releases-Hypervisor-Bible&s=97c0d710870821089bac8918d5240bb0

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Hotfile Goes To War Against its Paying Users

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/hotfile-goes-to-war-against-copyright-infringers-110219/

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U.S. Resumes Controversial Domain Property Seizures

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/ Rojadirecta is an unusual target for several reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless. Rojadirecta doesn’t host any [...]

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U.S. Seizes Sports Streaming Sites in “Super Bowl Crackdown”

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-seizes-sports-streaming-sites-in-super-bowl-crackdown-110202/

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Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More | TorrentFreak

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)&utm_content=Google Reader

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100 P2P Pirates do 66% of all Uploads

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/26/100-p2p-pirates-do-75-cent-all-downloading/

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The GPL is a License, Not a Contract

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 …if it’s a contract, then you enforce it under contract law, which is enforced state by state, and there are certain necessary elements to qualify as a valid contract. If it’s a license, then it’s enforced under copyright law, and that’s enforced on the federal level according to the terms of copyright law, not [...]

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Obama Nominates 5th RIAA Lawyer to position U.S. Solicitor General

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/riaa-lawyer-solicitor-general

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Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright

Friday, January 21, 2011

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http://www.libertarianstandard.com/articles/stephan-kinsella/intellectual-freedom-and-learning-versus-patent-and-copyright/

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Judge Kneecaps Big Porn Copyright Troll

Friday, December 17, 2010

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/judge-kills-massive-p2p-porn-lawsuit-kneecaps-copyright-troll.ars

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Swiss Watch Co Omega Uses Copyright Laws to Block Costco From Sales of Watches

Friday, December 17, 2010

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http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfisher/2010/12/13/supreme-court-rebuffs-costco-in-copyright-challenge/

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