The Internet Defense League Makes Sure The Internet Never Loses

Source: Buzzpatrol

The Internet Defense League was created by 29 year old Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and Fight for the Future. It is a network dedicated to spreading the alarm whenever the Internet is threatened by bad laws or monopolies. The In ...
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Apple says Department of Justice "sides with monopoly"

Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

In Apple's eye, the U.S. government has cast its lot with monopolies . Apple's legal response to the Department of Justice lawsuit, which the company filed May 22, claims that the case against Apple and other publishers over ebook pricing is ...
Full article at: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)  More like this  11 hours ago

Internet Defense League Aims To Be The Web's 'Bat Signal' For Online Protests

Source: The Huffington Post

Back in January, thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, went dark to protest legislation in Congress aimed at combating copyright infringement. Opponents of the bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, said the measures am ...
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The Internet Defense League: Spreading The Alarm Whenever the Internet is Threatened

Source: Laughing Squid

The Internet Defense League is a network dedicated to spreading the alarm whenever the Internet is threatened by bad laws or monopolies. League members (including Laughing Squid) will receive alerts whenever an Internet threat is identified. M ...
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Obama Admin opposes making other nations share cost of drugs

Source: Humanosphere

Fake drugs on the rise On the face of it, this might sound a bit odd. But then, that’s the way politics and foreign policy often sound. Odd. The U.S., which pays for something like 70 percent of the costs of researching and deve ...
Full article at: Humanosphere  More like this  14 hours ago, 3:46pm CDT

Monopoly madness

Source: LXer

Monopolies, whether created by the state or created by the market, can be problematic for open source, and as technology moves forward, new spaces to monopolise are always appearing. Glyn Moody looks at how the authorities should ...
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Apple’s legal response to DOJ in eBook price-fixing case

Source: 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence

Ars Technica posted Apple’s legal response (PDF) to the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the Cupertino, Calif.-based Company, and six publishers, for allegedly conspiring to fix eBook prices. In t ...
Full article at: 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence  More like this  15 hours ago, 2:46pm CDT

The Default Decade

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Other similarities are inescapable. The Financial Panic of 1893 was the worst depression known in America to that date, while by that decade's end the Spanish-American War had put us on the world stage as the new superpower. But t ...
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Ebook Pricing War Wages On

Source: PC Magazine

Curiously, I think Apple's meta-arguments are valid. It suggests something is wrong with the way Amazon does business. In actuality, this whole case has to do more with price-fixing than anything else. Apple t ...
Full article at: PC Magazine  More like this  16 hours ago, 2:11pm CDT