Piffey

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Collective Injustice? UK Bill Proposes Consumers Pay $800Mil To Make Up For Piracy Loss

Our friends across the Atlantic seem to get slammed with the worst of ideas from their legislators. First there was the Pirate Finder General with his near-unlimited power to hunt down music and film pirates. Now the content industries have found a way to force the consumer to pay collectively for the faults of a [...]

Lawful Spying Documents: How Companies Sell Your Data Cheap To The Police

I was checking out Cryptome the other day, as we geeks often do, and came across the Lawful Spying documents they’ve been posting. Cryptome is a site that routinely posts recently released FIA documents and other publicly accessible data. The Lawful Spying documents are basically compliance guides for law enforcement. They show how much data [...]