The Long, Fruitful History of Music Piracy
Music and intellectual property law.
Technology
IRS to Snoop Social Media About Tax Returns
Delete any Facebook posts about your Vegas winnings
HTC Reports Year-Over-Year Profit Drop of 98 Percent in First Quarter
Only $2.83 million of profit
Montreal Woman Arrested for Anti-Police Instagram Post
That will do wonders for her attitude
Hackers Post Photo of Kim Jong Un as a Pig on Official North Korea Flickr Account
North Korea's people are starving but it has a flickr account
3D-Printed Buildings Are Coming
House in Amsterdam to be completed by end of the year
Bitcoin Now a Billion Dollar Market
Increasing number of people would rather not have the government involved with their money
British Member of Parliament Seeking to Impose Sanctions on Twitter
George Galloway says the microblogging service failed to give police information relating to criminal communications
MIT to Release Aaron Swartz Documents
Swartz killed himself in January, was facing charges for hacking into articles on a MIT archive
Where Higher Education Went Wrong
A forum on the failures and future of the American university
The Conquest of the Future
The lost tomorrows of Gerald O'Neill and Eric Drexler's visions of infinite space and abundance.
Business as Usual at DOJ: Threatening Guy with Prison Over an Altered L.A. Times Headline
Why do people keep accusing them of overzealous prosecution?
Reuters Journalist Indicted for Conspiring With Anonymous
Charged with helping the hacking group get into the Tribune Company website
Washable, Wearable Electrodes Invented
Can make certain types of medical tests so much easier
Tech Firms and Private Prisons Both Trying to Influence Immigration Reform
Though not on the same page
Domestic Drones Are Coming Your Way
Unmanned aerial vehicles are capable of far more than just state-sanctioned killing and police surveillance.
Rand Paul Filibuster Prompts Twitter Discussions
Social media as (somewhat sarcastic) debate platform
E.U. Fines Microsoft $731 Million
The corporation failed to promote browsers other than its own Internet Explorer
Facebook Admits Teens Are Getting Increasingly Bored of the Social Networking Site
Losing out to apps like Instagram
FAA Gets Whiny About Airborne Dance Video; Bring on the Sequestration Already
Apparently "fun detectors" have been added to airplanes
Detroit Students Suspended over "Harlem Shake" Video
We're guessing the part where the kid pretends to sodomize a live duck might have played a role
Facebook to Take Down some Fake Newtown Pages
Allegedly fraudulent pages trying to pull in donations
Should You Go to Jail for Unlocking Your Phone?
Derek Khanna on copyright, the DMCA, and the terrible law against freeing your cellphone
