The government's website seizure program is already a mess, with one judge refusing to play along and the authorities forced to relinquish a domain in another case. Ars Technica's, Timothy B. Lee asks "Does the government really have the power to seize a domain name, hold it for a year, and then return it without compensating the owner?" Spoiler: yes.
Who needs SOPA when it takes a year to recover mistakenly seized domains?
Reddit takes a stand against the EU's plan to break the internet
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Australia's 2015 copyright censorship system has failed, so they're adding (lots) more censorship
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Remembering the SOPA blackout, five years later
Five years ago, we won an unprecedented victory: spurred on by blackouts of more than 50,000 sites, more than 8 million Americans called Congress to object to the Stop Online… READ THE REST
Microsoft Office 2024 puts the old reliables back on your PC
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Speak a new language confidently sooner than you dreamed with Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20
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Microsoft Office is just $28, but only through July 26
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